Dear visionaries, Everybody take a few deep breaths. If that doesn’t help, put your head between your knees for a few minutes. Just a couple thoughts. On the subject of female toplessness, Thomas moaned, “We Americans look like bumpkin country jakes to most of the civilized world . . .” But there is a difference …
In the Top Three
When the elders of Christ Church made the decision to appeal the tax decision that went against us last week, we also decided that (assuming a victory on appeal) we would pursue donating a comparable amount of money for city services, etc. What’s up with that? There are a number of minor issues that relate …
Noogie News
An insightful friend has written to me in order to inquire what happens when the devil gives you a noogie. Does it leave a mark? Well, now, we are starting to get into some of the deeper levels of Reformed theology here, and I am hesitant to say too much all at one time. Suffice …
How About a Law Against Erotic Retardation?
Dear visionaries, Susan objects to a law that requires women to keep a top on but does not require the same thing of men. “A law intended from the outset to be selectively enforced” will clearly in the minds of some lead to tyrannical despotism. Since one of the things we have learned in this …
Support the Gideons
As the previous post put it, I was out of town for a bit. While there, I discovered through various communications back to Moscow, that, contrary to all my naive assumptions, Lewis Carroll is not dead. But I just got in last night, and wanted to refrain from commenting on anything until I saw the …
A Chaos of Opinions
Dear visionaries, Linda wrote that I must be frustrated at having to repeat myself, and repeats my question, “What standard are you appealing to, and why is that standard binding on anyone else?” To which I reply that it is no frustration. Just a lot of fun — like herding cats. She continued by reminding …
Secular Fundamentalists
Dear visionaries, Before I left town, someone here hoped that the travel experience would broaden my horizons, and make me realize what beautiful and aesthetically satisfying civilization we have going here as a result of the whole Enlightenment project, which, in the minds of some, still does not exist. But I went to various places …
Some Basic Math
Dear visionaries, I am sorry to leave our discussion just when it gets to “the feast of reason and flow of soul” stage. But I will be out of town this next week. Have fun with this. Robert says: “What she advocates is that laws are created preventing someone from being fired . . .” …
Best of Luck
Dear visionaries, Mary responded to me with: “So, you evangelize the Palouse your way, and I’ll evangelize it mine.” Deal. And this brings us back to the original point of our discussion. Our schools, both private and at home, are filling and overflowing and yours are emptying out. Your ardent defense of reproductive rights amounts to the …
Swallowing the Reductio
Dear visionaries, It goes without saying that people who do not understand their own worldview, or, in some cases, don’t even know that they have one, or they assume it to be a straw man invented by others, and all this in a university town, are ill-equipped to understand the worldviews of others. But this …