Panes of Glass

I recently received an email from my wife containing political cartoons from Australia. I really enjoyed them and wanted to share. What I find most interesting is that some from another country can so acutely perceive what happens in America when some watching at a much closer distance continue to vigorously deny and attack reality. [...]

Did that satisfy anyone? Senator Obama didn’t do anything but try to make things look not so bad. He tried to make Ayers look like a somewhat misguided teacher.

He certainly didn’t “repudiate” nor deny such a claim. As such, I must assume that he does in fact think McCain a bigot and racist. How can I think otherwise? Shameful.

I just walked over to Barnes & Noble, mostly to just get out of the house for a bit, and found Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason. I’m excited to read it, even though I’m certain our worldviews differ, because it looks like it will help me understand my own thoughts about our current [...]

Julie and I have our power again after several days in without following the wake of Hurricane Ike. It’s nice to have power, but we actually enjoyed the quiet and the cool breeze from the cool front. There are so many simple pleasures that we miss out on in our modern world.
My parents didn’t fare [...]

Julie and I went to see Ben Stein’s Expelled tonight, and we both loved it. Expelled is perhaps the most entertaining film on science ever made. It was also very well balanced and thought provoking. Most interesting and entertaining of all was Richard Dawkins‘ (author of The God Delusion) admission towards the end of the [...]

Julie and I watched Pan’s Labyrinth this past weekend, and we both really enjoyed it. We really enjoyed the parallel plots between the real and mythological worlds and the way in which they intertwined. At the ending, I thought immediately of C.S. Lewis’s comment that all myths point to the true myth of Christianity. Give [...]

My verdict is still out, but these “Emergent-See Po-motivators” from Pyromaniacs are interesting for sure.

It’s with great sadness that I come late to the table with the news of Robert Jordan’s death. My friend Randy told me about this only this weekend while at WordCamp. It’s true. There are apparently plans to finish his final book, but while I know a lot of people care, it just seems to [...]

Yes, so I realize that I’m still not done. I’ve had several changes of mind (not surprising). My original idea didn’t really pan out, but I promise all my reading and researching and learning will pay off. Thanks for your patience, especially since I’ve been “gone” a long time, and some of you actually still [...]