The other day I was coming out of a local building supply, and was headed for my truck. I heard a voice behind me, an inquiring voice, saying, “Douglas Wilson?” That was a correct identification, so I turned around, indicating yes. A middle-aged woman I did not recognize was standing there, about to go into …
Dysfunctional Zoning Codes
The recent zoning complaint against the Moscow Food Co-op has just been rejected, and the obvious question for Nathan Wilson and Aaron Rench (the gentlemen who filed the complaint) is whether they will appeal. The following is a press release that they issued this morning. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2005 Moscow Men Have Zoning …
Giving Away Books
Our local excitements continue. Just like that man on the old Ed Sullivan shows, we have seventeen rods with seventeen plates spinning on the top of them. Well, maybe not seventeen but this is not for lack of trying. And we also have a few odd characters off-stage smashing crockery back there to make it …
Too Rich For Words
And here are some doings in the other Moscow.
Three or Four Wool Blankets
Now it is freely to be admitted that if a regular person with no axe to grind sat down with a copy of the Moscow City Code, and his goal was to decide whether or not the Food Co-op ought to be allowed to move from its current location into the old Garts building, the …
Different Weights and Measures
Hypocrisy is the application of a double standard in favor of (surprise!) one’s very own self. The Intoleristas in Moscow (and probably in your town as well) are particularly adept at this. They excel in demanding a wooden, clunky, inflexible standard of law for their adversaries, and for themselves, well — that’s what ethical relativism …
Sauce for the Goose
Suppose something showed up at an official government kind of place Monday morning, and it looked something like this: TO: CITY OF MOSCOW ZONING ADMINISTRATOR RE: ZONING COMPLAINT PER MCC 4-11-7 DATE: MAY 16, 2005 COMPLAINT The Moscow Food Co-Op is expressly prohibited from conducting business at its intended location on 5th and Washington in …
Trochaic Ruminations
In the Northwest called Pacific In a town near Moscow Mountain Was a church that riled the natives, A tribe they called Intolerista. This tribe attacked with shrill invective, With keening and progressive yodling, Along with fruit and some dead-catting. Now in God’s kindly providences, Displaying all His sovereign mercies, The names of all these …
Goose Stepping Diversity
One of our Intoleristas here in Moscow has been Prof. William Ramsey, and he recently posted an article entitled “The Late Unpleasantness in Idaho: Southern Slavery and the Culture Wars.” In said article he attempts an overview of the Fracas here in Moscow, and he gets enough details wrong that I take back anything I …
The Coming Glory
With regard to the slavery fracas, I have said that the only issue is that of biblical absolutism. We must be resolved, as Christians, to have absolutely no problem passages. What this means is that, once the exegesis is done, and we know what the passage actually teaches, we will have no problem with it. …