C.S. Lewis once wrote a short story (I think it was called The Shoddy Lands), in which a female character reveals herself to be utterly uninterested in anything but (I think it was) jewelery. I bring this up because I recall reading a reference to that story by someone else who took it as clear …
Some Recessionary Pink Elephants
What explains the lunacy of our present political leadership? The explanations are varied, of course, but they generally cannot be grouped under stupidity. Ignorance, often, but stupidity no. You don’t get to the positions of influence that these people occupy because you are unable to tie your own shoes. The question is not a matter …
Public Spirited Brick Throwers
The cash for clunkers program is a variation on a theme, one that highlights the economic illiteracy of our times, and the greediness of our leaders and people. Free money — who could be against that? Well, me, for starters. Here is the theme. Henry Hazlitt (Economics in One Lesson) pointed out what he called …
More Medicare Thuggeries
Let us speak further of Medicare thuggeries, since that subject seems to have everybody riveted. This will not be a long post, since the principles are pretty easy to explain. But the discussion in our nation will still be a long discussion and debate, largely because Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. But here it is …
Terrible at Math
Christians and how they pay for their health care is a topic that just keeps on unfolding. Here are a few extra thoughts. My next point has to do with the nature of Christian testimony before the world. Julian the Apostate lamented how well the early Christians took care of one another, and the icing …
The Bubble Wrap of Our Grumbles
All right, so let us continue our discussion of Christians on the dole. And let us realize two things about it. First, given the fact that in the Western world, the dole has metasticized, it is complicated. And second, a large measure of these complications have arisen from the rationalizations that we have allowed ourselves …
The Sticky Mass of Federal Helps
Here are a few random thoughts to follow up on yesterday’s post about Christians entangled in the sticky mass that we are pleased to call federal helps, aids, loans, seductions, boondoggles, and entitlements. As I said yesterday, there are qualifications that can and should be made on this — it is a complicated subject — …
Just One More Piglet
I should begin by saying that I am not an alarmist, and that I don’t believe that the bar codes at Safeway are really antichrist codes. Further, I believe that beast of Revelation was the Roman Empire, long gone, lo, these many centuries, and that the woman who rode the beast was apostate Judaism. This …
That”s So Gay
So follow this link and watch the three television commercials that are there. (HT: Frank Golubski) Okay, all set? In the first place, I am almost tempted to give my whole-hearted endorsement to such an ad campaign just for the pleasure of hearing modern adults tell teenagers to “knock it off.” No qualifications, no poor …
His Rocket Ship Jammies
I haven’t said much about the one-act kabuki theater recently witnessed in the Honduras, if you are allowed to have those there. President Zelaya was pushing through an unconstitutional referendum, designed to alter an unalterable part of the Honduras constitution — the part of their constitution prohibiting “strong man rule.” Their Supreme Court said referendum …