Monthly Archives: September 2008
28 posts
It is not that the so-called bailout is good, but where are the options? So far those opposing this action have not offered any reasonable plan to cope with this situation. Roll call vote.
Philip is a scholar of religion and colleague of mine at Penn State. He is also a national (NY Times) bestseller. This morning he emailed me a copy of his latest article from The Christian Century and gave me permission to reproduce it here. notes from the GLOBAL CHURCH Philip […]
I was always a big fan of Bloom County, had not much love for Outland, and have been interested to see what would happen with Opus. Not much, it appears. Opus (the strip) never got off the ground, imho, but the character is still endearing in an oofish, leftist way. […]
Left work a bit early to join the family picking pumpkins (out of a bin, not off the ground, sadly). Now I am back in the office avoiding work. *sigh*
If so, I hope there will be trees and angels assigned to clean up duty. Oh, and this is fake, but funny.
The New York Sun has a review of Joel Kramer’s Maimonides. Oddly the review is mostly a summary of Maimonides’ life with only the last two paragraphs offering any sort of critique of the book. This is more than just a biography of one of history’s greatest thinkers. It is […]
Not the best Adam-Eve-Apple-Computer comic I have ever seen, but I do like the groggy, bandaged Adam. Somehow I never quite saw the first-born of all creation potbellied with a comb over. I suppose that is what married life can do to you. *ducks behind the sofa before things start […]
…is 19 hours worth of construction on an über swing set. Roughly 1/2 the cost of a Rainbow set, every bit as strong (better, with tongue-groove roof instead of fabric), and fairly straightforward to put together. Just takes time… Gorilla Playsets