A friend recently gave me the very thoughtful present of some gift credit at Hastings, so I toddled off to Hastings to see what I could see. (I wound up getting some blues CDs mostly.) But that is not the point. While there I noticed (again) the very large section of Christian books in the …
Flew the Coop
Just read on a news site that the famous atheist Anthony Flew has become a deist of sorts. He has not come to the Christian faith, or anything like that, but has abandoned a lifetime of naturalism because in his mind the evidence for intelligent design is compelling. While some will try to dismiss this …
Sins and Crimes
Dear visionaries, Just got back from Santa Cruz. The folks down there make all our local Moscow progressives look like mossback conservatives. It is a pleasure to be back. That said . . . Susannah detected a whiff of old Lester Maddox in my defense of the property rights of business owners. George did much …
Racist Progressives
Dear visionaries, A brief interaction with Robert, who thinks that I am forcing my moral standards, feeling threatened as I am, because a gay couple has entered my establishment holding hands. So, I am forcing my moral standards on someone who comes on to my property in order to challenge my standards? Or do you …
Slab of Humanity
Off to the left you see that I think that Zarafa Tutorials is one place you should check out, particularly if you have any children of writing age and you want to nurture them in creativity–which involves more than just grammatical competence. I recently had some fun looking at their first edition of The Dogberry …
Many Thanks
I am currently listening to the 70th edition of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, and it struck me how greatly indebted to Ken Myers I am. Over the years, this audio journal has been the most fruitful source of outstanding book recommendations of my experience. Give them a look if you have a moment.
Hate Crimes and Private Property
Dear visionaries, Now that some progressives have been revealed as malice and/or ignorance mongers with regard to Christian businesses, I want to add two cents on the individual rights front — because this is where a far more important issue is. This also relates to our other discussion on hate crimes — which is increasingly …
Discrimination and Puppy Victims
Dear visionaries, A leader in our town’s liberal elite doesn’t think kicking puppies is a discriminatory event? Where is PETA when you need them? Cordially, Douglas Wilson “Homophobes are people too.” Charlesmagne “Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local …
Squelching Rumors
Dear visionaries, So, someone wants to know if a Discrimination Event occurred in a local coffee emporium owned by Christians? Rumor control, aye. So then I heard that there is a special room in the basement of the admin building where the president of the University of Idaho goes every day at noon and kicks …
Burke the Progressive?
Morning, visionaries, As you may have surmised, I have no problem posting things that progressives find distressing to their tidy and very narrow worldview. And this is not that hard to do when dealing with fundamentalists who have no fundament. But I do not do it for the sake of being offensive — the point …