Tolkien’s Practical Agrarianism

This sounds like an interesting lecture:
Matthew Dickerson presents “Beyond Romanticism” at Marquette University
October 23, 2008
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
“Beyond Romanticism: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Practical Agrarian Romance”
Professor Dickerson will explore one element of Tolkien’s comprehensive ecological vision expressed in his Middle-earth legendarium: the agrarianism of the Shire, and its contrast in the industrialized agriculture [...]

REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Wow, my spam is getting more and more realistic!
From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with
a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has
had crisis that [...]

What’s Good About Our Economy: The Cubs Are Winning!

I was trying to think of something positive to post today about our economy. Here’s what I came up with:
Now is not the time to panic.
The fundamentals are sound.
10.6 trillion in national debt really isn’t that much per person.
There’s beer in the fridge.
The housing bill raised the debt ceiling by 800 billion so there’s [...]

Financial News

Not much time to write at the moment, but after reading Pastor McAtee’s observations, I’ll throw out a couple of my own:
1) The media uses “the Fed” and “US government” interchangeably to the point where its hard to figure out which entity is doing the bailing out at any given time. The “Fed”, or Federal [...]

Financial Sector Employees Getting Tasered

As Lehman Brothers comes completely unraveled, there’s a growing sense of dread for employees in the financial sector:
“Everyone is walking around like they have just been Tasered,” said one Lehman employee, who, like many interviewed for this article, declined to be named because he was not authorized to talk publicly. “Everyone was always hoping we [...]

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Candidate for The Enlightenment Party?

Our Christian friends sent us good wishes and prayers … and our Jewish friends sent good wishes and prayers … and our Muslim friends sent us good wishes and prayers. And, lo and behold, we received a lot of good wishes from some agnostics and atheists and we were delighted to get those as [...]

Fr. Hollywood Agrees – That Strategy Is A Failure

Fr. Hoolywood on Abortion and Political Strategy:
Unfortunately, abortion has become a political football, since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that effectively overturned all state regulation and/or abolition of abortion on demand. In essence, the federal courts have seized lawmaking ability from the state legislatures. So, abortion opponents have been pursuing a strategy [...]

First Ladies of Alaska

Great photo here of Alaska’s “2008 First Ladies Luncheon“:

HT: Vaughnshire Farm

Well, What If?

So many what if’s being thrown around in place of arguments. What if God wants to use so-and-so to do such-and-such?
Well, what if He does? Then He will, regardless of who the Cranky Christian Party votes for. What, you mean God’s going to say to Himself, “OK, I was going to bless America [...]