Monthly Archives: October 2007
Measuring the Dumbening of America for 20… Read more
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Lesson For Today
Today’s lesson is more of a question than a lesson, because I just can’t get it off my mind. Being back in the South, I am surrounded by Obese people Professed Christians The thing that bothers me is how often these two groups intersect. It should be painfully obvious to anyone with even a passing understanding of the tenets of the Christian religion or of the Bible, that obesity is gluttony and gluttony is a sin. Supposedly Christians are not to let their appetites control them, but rather they are to have control over their appetites. See Deuteronomy 21:20, Proverbs 23:1-2, 2 Peter 1:5-7, Proverbs 23:20-21, and Proverbs 28:7. So I suppose that today’s lesson is that hypocrisy is okay as long as it doesn’t leave the dinner… Read more
Daily Dining
Daily Dining Food on the brain today as the planning of the 2008 garden swings into high gear. Compost is cooking away, the plots are laid out (we’re using Square Foot) this time, and the long list of crops is in hand. We have also reorganized the frozen food storage over the last few days and made sure we have everything laid in that we want to for the winter (not that there will be a winter in South Georgia this year, but what the hay!). 3 cups Sumatra Mandheling coffee oops, skipped lunch (and breakfast) Bleu cheese chuck burgers grilled oven fries Pumpkin pudding Weight: 203… Read more
Friday’s Feast #164
Appetizer Name a great website you would recommend to others. Other than my own? The one I use most is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Soup On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night? There is no universally agreed-upon biological definition of dreaming, and most functional definitions of dreaming are limited to remembered dreams, so I will say 2, since I rarely remember my dreams, if I do dream according to your definition of dreaming. Salad Did you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name? I had a cat named Oscar. Main Course If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise? It would be fun to do a commercial for Labour & Wait Dessert What is your favorite kind of hard candy? Hmm, tough one here. Hard to pick between Anise Squares, Mary Janes, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Licorice… Read more
Thursday Thirteen #37 – (American) Political Parties Explained
With the coming presidential elections on everyones mind in the US, I thought I would take a look at the political landscape and see what each of the parties (large and small alike) were actually about. The result of that investigation was a dazzling array of platform statements and programs, all wrapped up in hyperbolic prose. In the interest of simplicity, I have gone to the trouble of reducing each parties positions into a succinct, one-line explanation in order to help you better choose the party that best matches your existing prejudices: Democratic: “We work for you; the common, average millionaire.” Republican: “We work for you; the common, average billionaire.” Centrist: “If we work together, we can help the average millionaire AND the average billionaire.” Green: “Let’s actually do what the Democrats talk about.” Constitution: “Let’s actually do what the Republicans talk about.” American Heritage: “Let’s give the government to the Church.” Libertarian:… Read more
Daily Dining
Daily Dining The old saying goes “Breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince, dinner like a Pauper”. While I am not there yet exactly, I can feel myself moving in that direction, beginning with my refound love of breakfast foods and my rekindled habit of rising early. Sumatra Mandheling coffee Scrambled Eggs Sausage Patties Biscuits 12 oz Dr. Pepper Beef Stroganoff Green beans Bread sticks Pear Cake Weight: 204… Read more
Lesson For Today
With regards to electoral politics, there are people who believe that politicians are differently motivated or differently principled based on the party affiliation, and there are people who believe all politicians (but not necessarily all possible future politicians) to be essentially the same; money-grubbing, power-hungry influence peddlers who are only interested in personal acquisition and aggrandizement. The lesson is not that these two views exist, or that I hold the second view, but that I am increasingly uninterested in discussing politics with any but the most open-minded and least serious of the first group. Partisanship, which inevitably takes the form of either “wah wah look what unfair thing THEY did to us” or “wah wah look what unfair blame they place on us”, now strikes the same emotional response center as the English no-empire-no-more limp-armed whining – it just makes me want to slap someone and yell “Get off the cross, we need the… Read more