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Jeremy recommends the Fleet Foxes record. So do I.
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D. A. Carson audio from a weekend seminar titled "Making Sense of Suffering".
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I've watched a bunch of these, but this will give me some ideas for my next trip to the video store.
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Pretty amazing.
- This moment in conservative intellectual history – Crunchy Con – "…the reason [Palin] has sounded so godawful in some of these interviews is because she did a godawful job in those interviews. And until shown otherwise, it is fair to surmise that she did a godawful job because she doesn't know what she is talking about. And THAT should worry all of us, even as we heartily wish for this woman of high character and principle to rise to the challenge." – tags: SarahPalin politics Election2008
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- 36 Hours of Alarm and Action as Crisis Spiraled – NYTimes.com – Fascinating and scary picture of the financial crisis as its first days played out. – tags: financial news
- GFMorris.com » Thirty! | Day #1 – – tags: cjh_comment
- Elsewhere in Dreams » Blog Archive » Bullet Points for a Tuesday Evening – – tags: cjh_comment
Things I’ve linked in the past 24 hours:
- George F. Will – A Vote Against Rashness – "We are waist deep in evasions because one cannot talk sense about the cultural roots of the financial crisis without transgressing this cardinal principle of politics: Never shall be heard a discouraging word about the public.
Concerning which, a timeless political trope is: Government should budget the way households supposedly do, conforming outlays to income. But the crisis came partly because so many households decided that it would be jolly fun to budget the way government does, hitching outlays to appetites.
Beneath Americans' perfunctory disapproval of government deficits lurks an inconvenient truth: They enjoy deficits, by which they are charged less than a dollar for a dollar's worth of government. Conservatives participate in this, even though deficits fuel government's growth by obscuring its cost."
George Will gets it right.
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- The Shaman and the Chicken Bones [Topic: Creation and Food] – "These pastors either don't know any better, in which case they cannot be trusted to handle the sacred text of Scripture, or they do know better but are afraid of the coterie of health ladies in the church who are propagating this kind of nonsense, in which case their cowardice disqualifies them."
- FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life – "This much, I think, is clear: Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself; it is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life. "
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Written by a Calvinist. A call for humility and compassion.
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"The American century was created by American leadership, which is scarcer than credit just about now."
David Brooks FTW!
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Good insights on Ps 47 and its commands to worship.
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10 seemingly antithetical points of the creative personality. Fascinating.
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Amazing pictures of the hurricane's destruction.