I had a bit of a scare yesterday in Baltimore City heading to a tango event…a group of about 50 motor-scooter and ATV drivers running amok, through red lights and around vehicles lawfully operating…a sort of mobile “wilding.” Popping wheelies alongside minivans with kids, nearly causing a few accidents, carefully negotiating their way past a [...]
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Security…
Posted in Commentary on August 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Progress
Posted in Commentary on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The very first electronic computer I ever laid fingers to the keyboard of had a cassette tape for storing programs and had a printer for the output device – no monitor at all. A few years later I saw a primitive Altair, I think it was, with a monitor. You could simulate landing a REM [...]
Scientia
Posted in Commentary on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
VoX approvingly quotes a guy who hits it up the middle. One of – but not the only – reason that I am no longer “Evangelical” but only “Christian” is because of the lack of integrity and open-ness that Evangelical modes of thinking bring to the table when it comes to the arts and sciences.
Mark it down…market down…
Posted in Commentary, Diary on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I traveled in what is now the Czech republic after the fall of Communism there, I espied in a book store in Wenseclas Square in Prague a marked down volume of some communist tome .. I forget if it was Marx, or Lenin. At any rate the tag showed the price had been cut [...]
Sweet land of liberty
Posted in Commentary on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
His speech.
Selective memory
Posted in Commentary on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Selective memory is both a curse and a blessing – it lets people move forward and properly conceive of what is most important in the now; but longitudinally it can be an aid for b.s. ing one’s self; or others. The effects might be minimal; or they may be great. But the principle remains.
Priceless..
Posted in Commentary on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thomas Sowell tells it like it is.
Theological circle-jerks*
Posted in Commentary on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
*Yes, a horrendous way to put it. But maybe the only way to make people think. Six people in a room going yaaaaaahhhhhsahhmmen this is what we believe are a theological circle-jerk. There is no exegetical or hermaneutical substance to such a spectacle. Nor any help for those in need.
Great bumper sticker seen.
Posted in Commentary on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Constitution is a shield, not a sword.”
Requiescat in pace
Posted in Commentary on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I did not agree very much with the late Senator Kennedy’s notion of what the good society was; and some of his policy notions such as using tax money to fund the killing of unborn children I find abhorrent. Yet I do not doubt that he loved his country and sought to serve her. Many [...]
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