Perhaps this is the key to understanding what’s been happening in the White House for the last several year.
For more on what’s in the White House library, which can only hold 2,500 books, read this.
“How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?”
Dystopia is that disturbing place where some of your friends say you are headed in a handbasket, and everyone’s talking about it with the movie debut of The Hunger Games this weekend. So what’s your favorite or most respected dystopia?
Robert Collins has a good list of ten in The Guardian.
Shane Dayton of Listverse has his own list of 12 (with some natural overlap).
What do you think?
Europeanne writes about her trip to Fort Breendonk, once a Nazi concentration camp north of Brussels. What will keep abuse like this from happening here? Are we at risk of entertaining ourselves into a stupor that will allow evil men to go unchecked in America?
Jared Wilson’s Seven Daily Sins: How the Gospel Redeems Our Deepest Desires
Al Mohler laments the passing of the printed Britannica. “My guess is that, all things being equal, a boy my age riding along in the family’s Prius this summer is more likely to be playing Angry Birds on his iPad. Left behind is the unexpected serendipity of reading about the mating habits of aardvarks. Is this progress?”
Heh, he has a point, though it would be better served by another example, don’t you think?
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. I may spend the day in the kitchen, making Irish soda bread and tomorrow’s lunch, but you go have fun or something.
We are wonderfully blessed to have a Northern Irish couple writing music for modern church. Songs like “In Christ Alone” and “The Power of the Cross” are contemporary songs worthy of the hymnal for their lyrical richness and musical flow. See the rest of Keith and Kristyn Getty’s music on their site. I see they are holding a St. Patrick’s Day sale on their website, 17% discount.
“Today I arise, through the baptism of Christ—His cross; and His grave; resurrection; ascension; and final descent, for the judgment of doom.
Writer Eugene Cross talks about doubting his writing ability and that being a good sign. “As the amazing Richard Bausch puts it, doubt is an indicator that you have an ear for the way the work should sound and that you realize it’s not yet there.” (via Jane Friedman)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica distinguishes itself from the more Internet-popular Wikipedia by challenging the latter’s knowledge-base and open-editing format. The kerfuffle (which is such a fun, old Scottish word) Soledad O’Brien got into last week illustrates this point precisely. CNN’s O’Brien argued with Joel Pollak of Breitbart.com that Critical Race Theory has nothing to do with white supremacy, apparently getting her information from a line or two in a Wikipedia article. Now, due to a series of edits and reverts on that article attempting to validate O’Brien’s misread, top Wikipedia editors have frozen the article.
I would tell you what the Britannica says about it, but can only find that Derrick Bell, “American legal scholar and educator who strove uncompromisingly to reveal and confront the pernicious racism that he found ingrained in American legal and social structures,” is known for developing the theory.
What has been in print continuously since 1768, got started in Edinburgh, Scotland, and will now be available only online?