The first pictures released aren’t exactly damning. You have to look hard for the little red circle in the back left of the first picture to see Abramoff. What does it prove? Wait a minute. Read this: It shows a bearded Abramoff in the background as Bush greets an Abramoff […]
This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education looks into the suspension of 8 of our teams. It will be available until Feb. 15th (or by subscription). Rick Dickson thought he had seen the worst last summer after Hurricane Katrina caused $3.5-million in damage to Tulane University’s athletics facilities and […]
Aside from the fact that I think it is a curious delight to read a blog by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and all around very wealthy guy, the fact that he claims ownership of Phil Jackson is great. I Own Phil Jackson Not literally of course. That […]
(I am hoping I have 12 more left, just in case.) Microsoft interviewed me because of my use of Office for Mac. In the interest of full disclosure (and what a curious phrase that is, do we really think that full disclosure takes in interest in what we do or […]
Higgaion is a blog that is currently posting a list of top archaeological finds for biblical studies. He keeps updating it so be sure to stop by and poke around! ADDITION: This all started over at Joe Cathey’s blog. And over here Joe engages in a “dialogue” (of sorts 😉 […]
(The targum texts here are from the Accordance modules, which were built upon the CAL texts.) The targumic versions of our verse under consideration do not show much interest in the question of how (or if) to render עִמָּ֖הּ. MT: Gen. 3.6 :ותרא האשה כי טוב העץ למאכל וכי תאוה […]
Jimmy Johnson, creator of Arlo and Janis one of my daily comic reads critiques the Toyota Takoma ad as one of the most insensitive (“dumb”) ads given the recent events here in the Gulf South. I have to agree. Those of us watching it thought it was rather lame, to […]
Beware of claims that archaeology disproves—or proves—the Bible is true. By Christian M.M. Brady | posted 09/24/2003 This is an article I wrote originally for the now defunct (but once very fine) mag re:Generation Quarterly. When it went online in Christianity Today (September 2003) Jim Davila noted it and offered […]
From the Winston-Salem Journal. I meant to post it to my Religion class, but it is an interesting article and worth posting here as well. Americans don’t need separation of church and state nearly as much as we need to have separation of church from television, movies and the chronically […]