Let me begin by acknowledging that the globe is a complicated place, and that when vexing questions get insulted with answers that are too facile, then those answers should be rejected for being, um, too facile. At the same time, when certain errors (especially in economics) are almost universally embraced, the results are consistently the …
Two Marks of Deliverance
The topic of Sarah Palin continues to open new vistas for discussion. I haven’t had this much fun since Al Gore started predicting the sky would fall, or whatever it is he has been predicting. Whatever it is, we’re all going to die. So let’s talk about something a bit more pleasant. All faithful Christians …
Babe-raham Lincoln
As one wit put it, if the Democrats wanted to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a proposal to do it over the course of three years. Or, to use my own illustration, the Democrats are driving us toward the cliff at 80 miles an hour. The Republicans want to go …
John Has Slain His Thousands
I am continuing all this in the spirit of thinking out loud. It should be obvious — even though I still have not made up my mind finally — that I really like Sarah Palin and believe that she might be uniquely positioned (in just a couple months) to really do something about Roe. Here …
An Epistemological Pileup
All right. As far as I can make out, our debate over Sarah Palin revolves around three distinct issues, all three of which have merged in a highly entertaining and jumbled fashion — a sort of epistemological pile-up. The first is the propriety of voting for a Republican. A large number of us (myself included) …
Secret Love Child of a Hot Dog Vendor
Let me start with the obvious negative. Sarah Palin thinks a whole lot more of John McCain than I do. So there’s that. And let me leave aside (but just for the moment) all the questions about a Christian mother’s roles and responsibilities. We will get to more of that in future posts. The discussion …
Palin Comparison
Like many others, I will be watching Sarah Palin’s speech with great interest tonight. With that event coming up, here are just a few bits and pieces of leftover punditry that I found lying around the house here. 1. The barrage that has been unleashed against her means that the left is in a deep …
Making Karl Rove Look Like a Piker
Just to keep things interesting, we now read this. Sarah Palin and her husband were at one time members of the Alaska Independence Party, a party that stands for secession from the US of A, among other things. This story just keeps getting better and better. Why that should be controversial, I surely don’t know. …
John Knox and Sarah Palin
One quick niggling contextualizing comment off to the side. John Knox’s famous missive, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, has been mentioned a couple times in the comments of this discussion about Sarah Palin. John Knox wrote the booklet, aiming it at Bloody Mary, a vicious persecutor of the …
And Another Thing . . .
Since I posted the cons and pros post below, I found out about the out-of-wedlock pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s teenaged daughter. Some of the things I wrote apply to this in principle (Con #1 and Pro #3), but please allow just a few quick takes on this new twist. Obviously, there will have to be …