Napolitano: From Dimwit to Visionary. How do neo-nazis (or Jew-haters by any other name) get labeled right-wing extremists? I’m starting to hate right and left terminology.
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Expanding the Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library sends one book a month to kids under 5 years old. When I first heard of the program, I said I didn’t want taxpayers to spend money sending my kids books they don’t need. We’re a literate family. We have piles of books. But the woman at the promotional booth told me the program is privately funded, and getting books in the mail is tons of fun. So I signed up my one-year-old, and it’s been a good experience for all of us.
Now, the Imagination Library is going to work with United Way of America to expand their program nationwide.
Selling the Weekly Standard
News Corp. may be selling the news magazine The Weekly Standard to a Denver billionare. Also this week, The National Review is asking for your support.
1,000,000 Words in English
The Global Language Monitor estimates English has a million words now with the last addition being “Web 2.0.” I’m sorry. “Web 2.0” is not a word. It’s a term, and they are not the same thing as words. . . .
Wow, Bartleby.com doesn’t have the American Heritage Dictionary anymore. What happened?
Interview with Andrew Breitbart
Uncommon Knowledge did an interview last month with Big Hollywood’s Andrew Breitbart in which the voice for conservatives in Hollywood talks about that town’s on-going McCarthism, his personal development, and his plans for the future.
Modern War Movie
Very Short List recommends an interesting war movie that you may have missed. “The Hurt Locker” focuses on a bomb squad in Iraq and the daily pressure they face when they disarm explosives. Could be good.
Re-reading Lewis and Narnia
Mr. Holtsberry has a review of Laura Miller’s The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia.
Made for the Older Children
In which Mark Corallo illustrates the biggest problem facing modern movie studios: that juvenile story material is weighted with filthy humor. This is the fruit of the immature men making movies today.
Top 100 Bible Verses
Bible Gateway has a list of most read Bible verses on their site. Some of these call out for context. To that point, last night a friend talked about the second most popular verse from this list because it’s often quoted without its context.
Jeremiah 29:10-14: This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Yes, the Lord has plans for us. That’s great, but what’s this about staying in Babylon for seventy years? What’s this about exile? Do American Christians have to fool with that part too?
And Galatians 5:2 isn’t on the favorites list. How could that be?
Looking Down the Spout of a Tornado
You can’t say this isn’t cool. A tornado team films a funnel cloud turned away from them so that they can film down its spout.