As a number of you noticed, I wrote yesterday on what I regard as empty posturing on the part of the Southern Baptist Convention. This elicited a lot of reactions and comments, and so I thought to follow everything up with a few additional comments of my own. One of the reactions was by Jeff …
Review: Selected Poetry
Selected Poetry by Ogden Nash My rating: 5 of 5 stars A wonderful collection. Although I must say that it dawned on me that I wouldn’t really call Nash a poet. He was, top to bottom, front to back, a wit. Just a lot of fun. A regular poet published a book,And an excellent book …
Southern Baptist Lava Lamps
Just the other day, in a masterpiece of bad timing, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention voted to disassociate themselves from the Confederate battle flag. I maintain this was a cloth-headed blunder for three basic reasons. First, it was as though the second story of your house were on fire, and the fire department did …
Review: Matthew Arnold Eman Poet Lib #53
Matthew Arnold Eman Poet Lib #53 by Matthew Arnold My rating: 3 of 5 stars Although I think Dover Beach is a poem to be admired, the rest of this collection left me pretty flat. View all my reviews
Circumambient Imbecilities
The phrase in my title comes from Mencken, but the reality that we must deal with every day comes from . . . from our thought leaders, I think. It is a bad business when a nation’s thought leaders quit thinking. A radical Muslim, working the ISIS angle, shot up a homosexual nightclub, murdering 49 …
Review: Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President
Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President by Warren Throckmorton My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I first read The Jefferson Lies, I rated it at four stars, but noted at the time that this was tentative. I wanted to read the other side of that controversy, which I have now …
Rethink the Ink
Introduction: I stated in my earlier post on tattoos that there are Christians I respect who differ with me on the subject, and Joel McDurmon would certainly be in that number. And, just so you know, another example would be Jeff Durbin and the Apologia guys. My appreciation is specific, not generic. Now in order …
When Worlds Collide
Well, Okay. I Guess I Do Approve of Some Tattoos.
The Latest Trumpadoo
Introduction: So here are a few random thoughts on the latest iteration of our great republican hokey pokey. Have you ever read color commentary on res publicae hoci poci, to use Cato’s oft abused phrase? Well, that’s all anybody reads anymore, right? But here goes anyhow. Shock and Aw, Shucks: The first thing to say, …