A Good Point About Palin and Letterman…

Shannyn Moore is an Alaskan blogger, and wrote a good post about the Palin/Letterman broohaha. I appreciated her even tone and the lack of ad hominems, colorful crude metaphors, and venom-coated barbs trying to disguise themselves as arguments. Check out her blog post. I kept wanting to comment to the bloggers who were name-calling on [...]

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Behold the End of Nader’s Career…

I mean, did he ever really have one?  At any rate, he completely jumped over the cliff on this one.

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In A Vitriolic Political Climate, The Voice of Peace…

Mark Driscoll is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle and a pastor I really look up to.  He’s not perfect, but he’s honest, and he doesn’t mince words when he talks about Jesus.  This blog post of his was such a refreshment for me today, when so much  blogging and public discourse is [...]

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What Tuesday Means…

From a medical student in Evansville, Indiana, who voted early: “For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over grandmother), got their turn to vote. When the old woman [...]

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Joe the Plumber gums up the works

I haven’t been posting political items in this blog very much, and while this news clip is definately about the political campaign and the manic postures that are being adopted by people, I’m posting it here to point out something larger than politics.  Sound bites and aphorisms are unfortunately some of the most significant modes [...]

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