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Friday, November 14, 2014

You Can Learn A Lot From a Political Sociopath

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About the authoritarian liberal bullshit machine (which is as close to perpetulant emotion as we'll ever get): Green writes that ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I Chose Authoritarian Liberal Bullshit Forever

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Liberal compassion lends itself to bullshit by subordinating the putative concern with efficacy to the dominant but unannounced imperative o...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Principle Wonks and Policy Wankers

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One irritating term that needs to be retired is "policy wonk." Have you noticed that everyone who is described as one just happens...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

You Shall Not Turn Theft Into Compassion

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So, we're out in the bewilderness with the unholy trinity of tempter, temptee, and temptation. It's a true mirror image of reality,...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Miracles Under the Reign of Quantity

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It seems that Jesus' first temptation is food, being that he fasts for forty days and nights while undergoing the other Big Three. This ...
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Friday, November 07, 2014

The First and Last Temptation of Barack

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I'll be spending Thanksgiving with the liberal relatives. As always, I would prefer not to discuss politics, but I can't help imagi...
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Thursday, November 06, 2014

Heaven Scent

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I guess I have time this morning to get back to the Jesus project, now on to his ministry -- which seems like too banal a description. A m...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Have You Lost Your Christian Mind?!

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I may have to set the Jesus thingy aside for the moment, since I haven't had the temporal slack to thoroughly plunderize Ratzinger, and ...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Hope and Change, AKA Resentment and Coercion

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Well, to be honest, I haven't had time to get much further in the Jesus trilogy, so this post will consist of beating one idea to death....
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Monday, November 03, 2014

Jesus, Mary & Joysoph

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Barely any time this morning, as can be discerned by that wince-inducing title. As Lincoln might have said about the Incarnation: let us r...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

A New Birth of Freedom

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No, I'm not referring to Election Day. Or maybe I am. The " Infancy Narratives " are obviously rather scant, but from anot...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

No Vacancy!

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Well, yesterday wasn't a total loss. The subject of the seminar was the role of chronic inflammation in every imaginable illness, from ...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Who Do People Say That I Am? And Where Do They Think I'm From?

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A reader has challenged me to conduct a complete exegesis of the Gospels, or more particularly, of Jesus. Of course, Jesus cannot be reduce...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

Adaptation to the Environment vs. Openness to Being

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Not enough time for a new post. So I plunged down seven years into the arkive, and rejected about a dozen before settling on this one as sa...
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Friday, October 24, 2014

The Blinding Light and Omniscient Darkness of a World Made of Language

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Back to words -- or messages, messengers, and recipients. Deconstructionists like to pretend that the world is made of language, but they d...
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Eavesdropping on Nature's God

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Continuing with yesterday's line of thought... well, first of all, here are some highlights from the second repost I promised: Reader M...
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