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GodTube Hearts Huckabee

Posted on January 28, 2008
I'm not surprised that tech-savvy Christians prefer The Huckster for the highest office. I AM surprised that I never knew about GodTube until I read about it in The Dallas Business Journal today. These young kids and their Internet thing-ee-ma-bob! What'll people think of next? The God Blog? Catholic Television & Radio? Right! Man, sometimes I crack myself up...

Random Fortune

Posted on January 27, 2008
An important 40th anniversary passed last week with nary a ripple of acknowledgment. January 23, 1968. The USS Pueblo, a naval intelligence ship operating in international waters off the coast of North Korea, was attacked by North Korean jets and ships...

They'll Be Days Like This

Posted on January 26, 2008
Depression is rage spread thin. --George Santayana Are we there yet? Is it "Super Tuesday"? No? Shit. Bush Derangement Syndrome was bad enough, but now we have Huckabee Derangement Syndrome, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, and on and on. David Brooks, The "House Conservative" of The New York Times, had a column last week in which he stated the obvious fact that most people make up their minds on who they will or will not vote for in an election based upon their feelings, then rationalize their emotional decision...

A Brokeback Bushwacking

Posted on January 23, 2008
I knew it! I...just...friggin'...knew it!!! Heath Ledger Found Murdered by Bush in NYC Apartment  "Whether it's Ledger/Gylellynyhal, or Kerry/Edwards, Bush just can't stand the thought of two men being madly in love with one another."

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The Democracy of the Dead: A Dying System

Posted on January 23, 2008
Over at First Things, Lutheran pastor Gregory Alms uses his recent experience as a pallbearer at his grandfather's funeral as the catalyst for a number of reflections on the human condition. Among those are the importance of tradition, Chesterton's "democracy of the dead," and how secular disdain for it continues our atomization as a society, as we slide downhill in our pursuit of individual "authenticity...

Dream On

Posted on January 22, 2008
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.---T...

Bible Thumping And Choir Practice

Posted on January 18, 2008
My money quote of the week: A good deal of the Reformation that Luther set off consisted in trying to run both these Greek philosophers [Plato and Aristotle] off theology's premises, claiming that while they were both the work of the devil, Aristotle in particular was an especially devilish chap...

Keeping The Right Focus

Posted on January 16, 2008
The Archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, delivers another cogent presentation that is timely in this year of seeming  interminable, and often excruciating, political campaigning. Over at First Things, he's adapted portions of a presentation given on January 11, 2008 in New Orleans entitled "Catholic Identity in the American Public Arena" into a short article entitled "Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics...

The Importance of Being Earnest

Posted on January 15, 2008
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.--Oscar Wilde Women might be able to fake an orgasm. Men can fake an entire relationship.--Sharon Stone God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time...

Shut Up And Kiss Me

Posted on January 11, 2008
As we head out for an extended weekend out-of-state to care for the in-laws, I need to stoke up on some rock-bottom "Texasness." Here's a video of a song by Austin's own red-headed stranger, Willie (Hemp-Fest) Nelson. The song was written by Rob Thomas for his wife...

A Premature End

Posted on January 09, 2008
When I wrote last June that "the strange case of former Denver City Attorney Larry Manzanares came to a tragic end" when he committed suicide, I was mistaken. It was not only not the end, it may have not even been the beginning of the end. The widow of former Denver City Attorney Larry Manzanares sent a legal notice to Jefferson County on Friday that says she plans to sue the district attorney for abusing his prosecutorial authority while investigating her husband before his suicide...

Unleash The Lawyers!

Posted on January 09, 2008
The main stream media continues to beat the drum about how no one will benefit from the subprime mortgage crisis but those damned lawyers. One of the most recent examples was an article in The Economist that warned of a "wave of litigation" that threatens financial firms...

What Does It Profit A Man?

Posted on January 07, 2008
Mark Davis is a Dallas-based syndicated "conservative" radio talk-show host. He also writes a periodic editorial column for The Dallas Morning News. He had a column last month that was an astonishing, if perhaps unintentional, confession. Mr...

Stream of Consciousness

Posted on January 06, 2008
I was sorry to see the Queen of Dysfunction "go off the air," but she had a good reason for doing so. The primary reason I'm sorry that she's gone is a selfish one: she made me laugh. You can never laugh too much. Oh, you probably can, but anyone with a contrary opinion can keep it to himself (or herself)...

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