Progressives think nothing from the past is worth saving, conservatives think almost nothing from the past is worth saving. That little almost is the hinge upon which the political world turns. If anything from the past is worth saving, the entire orientation of man must change.
Category Archives: Madness
Just In Case You Wondered How Bad The USPS Is
This is the tracking history on a package I recently ordered that originally shipped from San Diego. From San Diego to Pittsburgh to New Jersey to Phoenix to New Jersey…
Disputes Between Friends
We generally say, “I don’t want to take sides,” when our conscience tells us the weaker side is morally right.
Chiefs v 49ers/Biden v Trump
2020 Super Bowl: Chiefs v 49ers 2024 Super Bowl: Chiefs v 49ers 2020 Election: Biden v Trump 2024 Election: Biden v Trump Let’s hope the parallels between 2020 and 2024 stop there.
Teachers Are Fed Up With No-Consequence Discipline
“Why enforce attendance or discipline a child for talking out of turn when there’s a fight in the cafeteria? “We’ve got bigger fish to fry!” But if school staff do not hold the line on small fights, bigger fish come along. Highly successful charter schools adopt a “broken windows” approach to school order—even paying staffContinue reading “Teachers Are Fed Up With No-Consequence Discipline”
On Worship & Idolatry
The average modern Christian’s understanding of worship is so vague and undefined, it isn’t helpful to talk about “worshipping the creator, not the creation.” It would be better (and more to the point) to speak of serving the creator or adoring the creator, not the creation. Our vague understanding of worship has led to aContinue reading “On Worship & Idolatry”
The USPS Is Terrible
I buy and sell things online on secondary platforms. In the last two months, the USPS has regularly taken three weeks or more to deliver packages that are supposed to arrive in two to five days. Today, nineteen days after shipping it, a package I sent to Texas was delivered to a buyer and theContinue reading “The USPS Is Terrible”
Education, Mildness, and Apostasy
“By the time I finished school I was an imperfectly informed but convinced socialist, pacifist, and agnostic… I had been brought up as a member of the Church of England, liking God. He knew everything about me but was Love and he was Understanding, so it would be hard to do anything for which heContinue reading “Education, Mildness, and Apostasy”
Nudify: “Ahead Of Its Time” Was An Insult All Along
I would love for the Christian tech defenders who endlessly repeat the mantra, “Tools are morally neutral,” to weigh in on this. How do you suggest we redeem this one for Christ?
Is Language Logical Or Is Logic Linguistic?
A significant part of proving that a certain claim is logical rests on illustrations born of proper and improper speech. This arises in The Consolation of Philosophy when Lady Philosophy asserts that evil is a nothingness, a privation of being. To prove this, she points out that people do not say that a dead manContinue reading “Is Language Logical Or Is Logic Linguistic?”
