Or not. I crunched the numbers. There isn't quite enough money in the budget. Even if you only give a stipend to citizens over 21, there's still 200,000,000 of us. The US government only spends about...
It's rare that I unearth memories that I've buried. They're not gone, but they were so painful at the time that I've just let other stuff cover them up. Like how ancient cities are still there, but the...
Chattanooga used to be rolling in them. Now they're just a memory. It's a memory that leaves you rubbing your jaw, from remembering all the chewing. Shortly after I began my third sojourn in the Scenic City, I began...
Those of you who were following this blog probably have been wondering what happened to me these last couple of weeks. I'm alive and well, and still very much in the race. But, some other stuff came up that temporarily...
VolunteerVoters asks the question I had, not when viewing the latest WBIR/SurveyUSA results, but when reading the Secretary of State's PDF a couple of weeks ago. I thought I had gotten around to adding him to the page, like when I...
No wonder Dennis Hastert was furious when Vichy Dem, William Jefferson, had his Congressional office searched citing it as unconstitutional. I think CNN's Jack Cafferty said it best See Atrios link when he said, it is...
The New York Times Book Review Editor, Sam Tanenhaus, recently put together a list of the best American fiction of the past 25 years. He sent out a letter asking a list of writers, critics, editors and other literary sages to...
There's a book been published recently called In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. "The Plan", as it were, is to completely eliminate all forms of governmental redistributivist plans including, but not limited to, corporate subsidies,...
Some say David wrote this for his son Solomon, I would suggest our country has forgotten the truth. Many times a bit of careful reading in the Tanahk might have been wise. It is our moral, christian responsibility to warn...
you are strangled in your sleep by your own hair. I don't talk about it much, but I have awesome hair. When it is pampered by just the right products and lovingly stroked often by the hair brush it gives that...
"The spectator is set at an absolute distance, a distance that precludes practical or goal-oriented participation. But this distance is aesthetic distance in a true sense, for it signifies the distance necessary for seeing, and thus makes possible a genuine...
Still hard at work revising, inflating, expanding. 7 days left. Here's an essay (an old blog post, really; for those relatively new JfB visitors) that I've done some revising on, in case you want for something to read right now....
This page--Articles on the Orthodox Christian Faith--is precisely what is says, a compendium of good, some very good, articles on Orthodoxy. Two in particular: Facing Up to Mary by Fr. Peter E. Gillquist Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone? by Fr. John Whiteford ...
This Friday night is Mesh Fest 2K6. We're celebrate our dear friend's 25th birthday. Dinner will be at Andy's house, and then karaoke at Rob's bar out in Red Bank. Do bring alcohol, despite what Ed says. It promises to...
I know, I know. You don't think that spam is fit for human consumption. "You don't know what part of the animal it's from," you moan (conveniently forgetting your taste for sausage). "It's pale and pink and...
But if, when their mouths are stopped on this point, they should seek another, namely, what is said touching Mary's virginity, and should object to us other translators, saying, that they used not the term "virgin," but "young woman;" in...
"But I am far from putting reliance in your teachers, who refuse to admit that the interpretation made by the seventy elders who were with Ptolemy [king] of the Egyptians is a correct one; and they attempt to frame another....
I don't like to talk about non Quiet Ones stuff usually but last nite David and Paul and I watched the movie Dogville by Lar Von Triers and it was the best movie I've seen probably since I rented City...
Here's another example of Ken's cartoon brilliance -- a depiction of a creature with a huge schozzle and a subservient pig creature. The pig, prone on his back like a pet yearning for his master's attention, is met by the...
I knew this guy when I was a kid that had suffered a massive head injury in a bike accident. I'll call him Jim. The incident had left Jim's face scarred and his... intelligence had taken an unfortunate loss, as...
I've recently talked to a very old friend that I haven't talked to in about 10 years. His wife has AIDS. He didn't tell me this - I read about it on the web. The article included the fact that...
"Carbon Dioxide: They call it pollution. We call it life". Oh boy, watch these ads from the Petroleum Industry here CEI.org Be sure to watch the attack ad on Gore too. Funny, the scenes dipicted...
This weekend is the opening of "An Inconvenient Truth" across most of the country. Chattanoogans will not get to see it until June 30th and it will only be shown for one day. The Bijou theater ran...
I have 3 weeks left until I have been dieting for a year now. My initial goal was 50 lbs in a year; well, I have 4 lbs 2 oz to lose in that 3 weeks. The way...
Anna Quindlan has such a gift for figuring out what is essential and expressing in such a way that one finds oneself saying 'amen' after each sentence. "On Being Mom" by Anna Quindlen If not for...
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