Mr. Woodlief lifts up the truth in the Koran burning argument, which has received too much press. He says:
I think a Christian ought not burn a Quran, not because it will incite violence, . . . [but] simply because destruction and negation are the purview of the devil, not God. The kingdom of Heaven is not advanced by destroying the false but by embracing the true. Darkness is never erased; it is enlightened.
Just before lunch, I heard a guy talking 9-11 conspiracies–there were no planes found at wreckage sites in the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania; if we would just open our eyes, we would see that our own government officials are lying to us. Gasp, that’s depressing. Don’t you think if our government people were willing to do all of that, they would also be willing to knock off the people trying to expose them? It’s all so insane.
But I don’t want to think about that any more. I need a break. Oh, look. Sissel has a new album coming out in November. She is just the cutest thing.
I wish I could link to a song from this, but I’ll settle for this video from years ago with a beautiful Norwegian song. Continue reading Break: Til Deg
Yahoo News passes on 25 things chefs never tell you, like the fact most of them want to have their own cooking show or “Vegetarian is open to interpretation.”
About 15% of chefs said their vegetarian dishes might not be completely vegetarian. Beware if you’re one of those super-picky vegan types: One chef reported seeing a cook pour lamb’s blood into a vegan’s primavera.
What the?
The Washington Post canned its book reviews from the printed paper last year. Other papers have been cutting book coverage for a long time. But behold, the Wall Street Journal say it will expand its Saturday edition and add to that expansion a portion of book reviews. The people rejoiced, and there was peace in those days.
Here’s a funny list of photos (one’s pretty bad) of poorly translated words in English. Read cautiously with caution, and beware fighting bear.
Dr. Albert Mohler has a new podcast beginning today: “Thinking in Public.” Today’s show has guest Christian Smith, whose research leads him to believe many American young people who have grown up in our churches are less Christian than moralists. God to them is the distant author of a great self-help guide.
Here’s a curious collection of TV news people making gaffes or showing their true colors. It begins with Katie Couric insulting the Palin family, and get much worse. Some of these clips are offensive (the second and third particularly), and there’s a good one in the middle of Rush Limbaugh’s comments about NFL Quarterback Donovan McNabb, which is not a gaffe at all, but the context around his comment which got him removed from that sport’s show. Watch the whole thing and you’ll hear what he’s saying and that at least of his co-hosts believes he is making a good point.
Let’s talk about this.
Big Hollywood links up a couple videos of an interesting interview with Rod Serling talking about TV fiction, television in general, and science fiction. He calls himself “the least adebt of science fiction writers” and that TV fiction is irrelevant overall. Near the end, he says Star Trek was a pretty inconsistent show, sometimes sparkling with ingenuity, sometimes “the carnival that television was.”
Great Vocab Didn’t Save The Thesaurus From Extinction. No. No, it didn’t.