Abortion and Riverboat Gambling

What an ironic analogy, considering the city I work in. Paul Gottfreid says it well:
Being against abortion is like being against river boat gambling as a corrupting human enterprise. It is a nice gesture on the part of politicians courting religiously earnest citizens but it is not a stand that requires any costly commitment from [...]

That Pesky Thing We Call Consistency

I read a great quote from Pastor McAtee on how the Credo-Baptist position essentially views children as salvifically-unviable-fetuses:
Credo-baptists believe that soteric worth is tied up with moral agency. Such moral agency is dependent upon consciousness. For Credo-baptists, soteric rights presuppose interests, and creatures without a fairly advanced state of consciousness do not and can not [...]

The Amish Have Doubled In The Past 16 Years

God is blessing the Amish in America, their population has nearly doubled since 1992, going from 125,000 to 231,000. (My own family has gone from 3 to 9 in that time, but hey – we’re in the prime of life!)
While a small part of the growth is due to conversions, other explanations include a [...]

Crazy Peak Oilers – Or Maybe Not So Crazy

In The American Conservative, Brian Kaller writes about the often-wrong presumption that peak-oilers have a Mad Max complex:
The simpler truth is that peak-oil converts are often young people reviving the personal habits and self-sufficient skills of their grandparents’ generation, thinking seriously about their tap water, transportation, income, food, heat, and electricity, and realizing how little [...]

Russia Attacks Georgia? Or Vice Versa?

Check out this interesting analysis (and history lesson) from Dmitry Orlov on what led to the current conflict between Russia and Georgia:
Shevardnadze slowly sank into a morass of corruption and national decay, until finally even the West decided that he smelled bad and unceremoniously replaced him with a shiny new face: the American-educated Mikhail Saakashvili. [...]

Earth To Chuck Baldwin!

From If I Were President, by Chuck Baldwin, candidate of the Constitution Party:
…There is absolutely no reason for us to be dependent upon OPEC. There is enough gas and oil under the soil of Alaska (not to mention the Dakotas and the Gulf of Mexico) to meet the energy needs of the United States for [...]

Postmillennialists Make Better Compost

Yes, its true. Postmillennialists make better compost. Herrick Kimball explains why:
Early on, as I learned about the wonders of using compost in the garden, I was discouraged by the fact that it takes so long to make the stuff. It can take up to a year for a pile of organic materials (i.e. weeds, kitchen [...]

And A Positive Movie Review, For Balance

This one’s for Wall-E, from Elihu at Polituema:
Wall-E is nothing but a parable that paints in broad strokes. Its presentation of slothful humans who submit themselves to Buy-N-Large, a gigantic corporation, is what bothers global capitalists, but the movie doesn’t even go to the realm of environmentalist nonsense or anti-corporate Chomskyism. It does not denigrate [...]

Dark (K)Night Movie Review

In his typical fashion, Kunstler opines on the new Batman movie and what it says about us:
The most striking thing about the new Batman movie, now smashing the all-time box office records, is its emphasis on sado-masochism as the animating element in American culture these days. It must appeal to the many angry people in [...]

“wine that has been chemically treated to remove all alcohol”

Father Hollywood deconstructs a Lutheran communion invitation, and came across this absurd statement:
“A wine that has been chemically treated to remove all alcohol and sulfites is offered in clear glasses in the individual trays.”
This has to be a candidate for the real preachers of genius series.