Now remember children, before you start arguing
Friday, February 15th, 2008Pastor Dan FTW!
… the plural of “anecdote” is not “data” …
Archive for February, 2008
Praying for patience
Friday, February 15th, 2008Never my long suit, and I am going to need a lot of it this weekend as I set off on a two night trip to a mountain cabin with 6-7 other parents and ~45 Scouts. The kids in my particular troop tend to be pills (esp. the leader’s child, who is a notoriously [...]
How an engineer says “I love you”
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Buys you a new cell phone, enters all your old contacts into it, and loads a picture of the kids as background.
“A Day to Forget”
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Nancy Gibbs wrote an elegant essay in this week’s Time about the celebration of Valentine’s Day. Without sounding sour or taking cheap “Hallmark holiday” shots, she gently pokes at people’s expectations. Time’s illustration, below, was also an eye-catcher.
If that’s a bit too negative, maybe you’ll enjoy this, from I Can Has Cheezburger?:
An outstanding piece of software
Thursday, February 14th, 2008A friend has a son who’s on his second round of cancer treatment. Last time we all helped with meals, errands, housecleaning and the like, but scheduling all that was an onerous task. This time? One of her brilliant buddies found http://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/, which is designed expressly to coordinate such things. So easy to use, and [...]
A touch, I do confess’t!
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Paul Krugman, in yesterday’s New York Times:
I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.
Aagh! Crap! And here I was enjoying [...]
A challenge to my PTA parent sensibilities
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Liz Henry, aka Badger, writes a fine polemic about PTA fundraisers [emphasis mine]:
What the hell people. Just pay your taxes! And go vote for higher school taxes if that’s what it takes, and if you’ve got a wad of money extra then give it to the district so they can spread it out fairly, or [...]
“Consumerism is a greedy society’s religion”
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Via Rogue Columnist, an outstanding analysis by Anthony Robinson in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the difference between a citizen and a consumer, and how we’ve devolved from the one to the other.
I can’t be the only one who listened to George Bush in the days after 9/11 and went, “Wait, what?” when he instructed us [...]
Charlie Pierce elegantly knocks in the nail with a single blow
Friday, February 8th, 2008Charlie Pierce on Altercation:
For the past couple of weeks, they’ve just gotten blatant about it. The administration of George W. Bush is bound by no law, bound by no precedent, bound not even by the forms of democratic self-government, let alone its actual substance, which is being used as a throw-rug in John Yoo’s den [...]
“I used to be so sure”
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Pastor Dan at Street Prophets pointed me to this new-ish blog, by the Rev. Richard Lamblove, the “sometimes semi-fictional persona of the Reverend Russell Rathbun.”
He is currently writing a series entitled “How to Preach Real, Relevant, Relational and Revolutionary Sermons,” from which I kype this gem:
I used to be so sure.
Now I preach questions and [...]
