November 2007

Idolatry is looking at anyone and thinking you know what their “divine mission” is. Manipulation is trying to get them to actually pursue it.

Greetings, readers! I’m back after a long posting hiatus, 2,800 miles of driving, and the Thanksgiving holiday, making for a highly productive…

Neely wraps up with the silly catch-all that we should all prostrate ourselves before “something greater” in some kind of a master-slave system of self-effacing ethics.

While it may be expedient to blame the water shortages on lack of rain, don’t be fooled. It always comes down to political cowardice.

I was about 8 years old. I asked why I was the only person who wasn’t invited to her party. She said only people her parents knew from church were asked.

We are shrill losers who don’t have jobs and live with our parents, wear bad haircuts, are anti-social, dippy, plagiarizing, hypocrites, don’t really actually disbelieve…

I always detect a note of desperation, that it is not so much others they are worried about, but the inadequacy of meaning in their own lives.

That it was an easily preventable death takes it out of the realm of tragedy, and puts it squarely in the realm of stupidity.

I’m newly awakened to the terrifying reality of this unaccountable archconservative evangelical mercenary army operating today within the borders of the U.S.