Changeabout

Douglas Wilson hits on all the key points when he writes about why he suddenly would consider for voting for McCain.

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Sarah Palin

I haven’t given John McCain hardly a wink until today.  I strongly commend and appreciate his valor and bravery during the Vietnam “Whatever-It-Was-Conflict-or-War.”  His vision and policy haven’t excited me.  But choosing Sarah Palin today got my attention and made me smile.  That was some real gumption.
We’ll see what time does with the pair, but [...]

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The Wesley Code

You’ll be hearing more about this in the near future, but a good portion of Charles Wesley’s journal was written in code…and it has been broken.  This was an important man and his humanity will likely be shown by the revelations that are found.
This isn’t a salacious story, it’s just a reminder that we are [...]

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Guess Where I Just Told My Boys To Go Play?

“Somehow, we’ve managed to turn childhood into a long, hard slog.“
Stellar article.

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Stare At This Fish for Three Days

I really enjoyed this post by Challies.  I’m going to pick up this book again.  The Incident of the Fish

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Never Coast

A frame-by-frame photo essay of the last few yards of Michael Phelps win in the 100m butterfly against Serbia’s Milorad Cavic.  Never coast!

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Pastoral Advice

from Tim Keller about the pastoral home…

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Just Checking

This morning in a confronting tone…
Me: “Haddon, were you trying to cut your big brother in half?”
Had: [concerned look turning to relief] “No.”
Me: “Were you trying to be mean?”
Had: “No.”
Me: “Then why did you hit him with the light saber?”
Had: “I was just trying to make him tougher.”
Me:  “Good answer.  Go play.”

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No Time for Nintendo?!

An excerpt from a letter that the 17-year-old C. S. Lewis wrote to his best friend:

12 October 1915
You ask me how I spend my time, and though I am more interested in thoughts and feelings, we’ll come down to facts. I am awakened up in the morning by Kirk splashing in his bath, about 20 [...]

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A Mouth Full of Foam

Spurgeon…
“You know more about your ledgers than your Bible; you know more about your magazines and novels than what God has written; many of you will read a novel from the beginning to the end, and what have you got? A mouthful of foam when you are done. But you do not read the Bible; [...]

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Harumph!

I’m not going to bash the man, but is there anything in this ad that gives real reasons why Barack Obama is electable.  His daughters are beautiful?

Also, note what notable “American” party is throwing their endorsement into the Obama ring of fire!

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How to Save $620 on Microsoft Office

You need to have an .edu email address.
The deal is back.

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No Fun and Games for Chinese Athletes

Very telling.

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Attention, Fellows!

I’ve been reading this blog for a few weeks.  It’s called the Art of Manliness.  It’s a good place to learn how to clean a gun, shine your shoes like a soldier, find a real barbershop, shave like your grandpa, and start a fire without matches.  Today’s post is 10 Manly Feats of Strength.
Generally, I’ve [...]

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Wowzers

Check out this pile of books.  The auction ends tomorrow.  Get your bid in early.

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He Marks Them For His Own

Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite by Isaac Watts

Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so:
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For ’tis their nature, too.
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise:
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other’s eyes.
Let love through all your actions run,
And all [...]

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Trying to Live in Righteousness?

William Bradford…
“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties and must be overcome with answerable courage.”

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Legacy Alert!

This woman was well-remembered for playing the horrid part.  Read her obituary.

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How ‘Bout Something Not Deep Fried

Is this your idea of retirement?

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Water Fountain

Or is it a water inkjet printer?

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Please Leave A Note on the Table When You Leave the Country

This guy didn’t.  Kevin and Terry were glum.

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Get Busy

If You Were Busy Being Kind by R. Foreman
If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it you would find
You’d soon forget to think ’twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
If you were busy being glad
And cheering people who seem sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You’d soon forget to notice it.
If you were busy [...]

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Brave, Noble, Kind and Good

From St. George and the Dragon (read it to your little boys)…
“‘These people are all safe and happy.  They need me no more,’ said St. George…. ‘Tomorrow I shall ride away and never stop until I find work which only a knight can do.’”

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Don’t Waste Your Life Being Blah

George Eliot’s “The Choir Invisible”
O, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
Of miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge men’s minds
To [...]

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Richer By One Brother-In-Law

Here is a six-and-a-half-minute video summary of Eddy and Danielle’s wedding from August 16th.

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Feed Me Optimism Lest I Perish

Daniel Burnham (1864-1912), Chicago architect…
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting [...]

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Let’s Eat

Voltaire…
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

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Something Lives in Every Hue Christless Eyes Have Never Seen

Francis Turretin…
“[He] is blind who does not see the most beautiful order everywhere and most wicked who does not acknowledge it. There is a suitable disposition of parts, so constant a concord of things so discordant, so harmonious an agreement and consent of creatures the most diverse, so swift and at the same time equable [...]

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Lessons in a Pile of Pictures

I would be interested to hear some of your general observations about this Time photoessay that shows in picture form what typical families of the world eat and spend on food in one week.
What the World Eats

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So Said the Solipsistic Senator

Asked to define “sin,” Illinois Senator Barak Obama replied, “Sin is being out of alignment with my values.”
This man’s internal compass is pulling hard toward “HellBent.”
HT: George Grant

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