Some people blog because they need to write. Some have no other creative outlet. Others do it as part of their life’s framework, as part of their daily work. I began doing it to force myself to write in a disciplined way. I had slipped from my everyday technical writing into more of a management…
Category: News and Commentary
Blogging, Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary
More Butterflies And Tipping Points: Memes
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Internet self-publishing (blogs and personal web sites) has introduced a genuine element of volatility into the cultural/political/civilization system we all share. This happens as memes (A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. From the Greek meaning to…
Christianity, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
Trust In Dangerous Places
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I don’t often write on political issues, but sometimes I come across something that puts a current affair into such clarity that I say, “Well that changes how I see that.” That happened to me today as I read the Stratfor Report, a service that I have been receiving at various levels for over eight…
News and Commentary, Science, Technology
Touchdown!
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Praise God from whom all blessings flow for the safe return of the Discovery crew. We had touchdown at Andrews Air Force Base this morning at 8:11 EDT. There were visible sighs of relief from the news people (I was watching Fox and NBC) as the shuttle rolled to a safe stop. …
News and Commentary, Science
Liftoff!
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Discovery is off. At 10:39 a.m. EDT the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Launch Pad 39B on the historic Return to Flight mission STS-114. As the nomenclature shows this is the 114th Space Shuttle flight. It is also the 31st flight for Discovery. The mission is scheduled for 12 days and is supposed to touchdown…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary
Look At Me; Ain’t I Wonderful?
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If you haven’t read it already, you owe it to yourself to the read the May 26, 2005 column of Peggy Noonan. The focus of her column is the gang of fourteen, those six Democrat and six Republican Senators who in essence took control of the Senate by forming a cabal that could block anything…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary
Butterflies And Tipping Points
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Matt Wrechard at the Belmont Club has been characterizing the Terri Shiavo situation as a “butterfly effect” in that it will have far reaching and currently unknown effects well beyond its absolute significance. One specific section at the end of his posting struck me. Even the symmetry of political orientation was momentarily broken. Robert Novak…
Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary
Political Correctness Turning Universities Into New Cloisters
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Peggy Noonan is often an insightful commentator. Her last Wall Street Journal piece, I’ll Link to That, comments on several current events, but the one that struck me was her observation on the ongoing flap surrounding Larry Summers, the president of Harvard. It all started when Summers suggested that there might be sexual/genetic reasons why…
Christianity, Conflict and War, Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary, Politics and Government, Religion, Terrorism
A Clarion Call To Prayer
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Hello! Welcome. Lend me your ear for a moment. Now that I have your attention I want to issue a sincere call to all Christians. I ask that you please pass this clarion onto everyone you know who calls Jesus Lord. It is one week until the U. S. Presidential election and the politics of…
News and Commentary, Politics and Government
Debating The Debate: Part 2
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In a column right after the first Presidential debate, a friend of mine, Mark Thomas, stood in for me and commented on what he saw as the salient points of the evening (Debating The Debate). There was only one comment on that posting and it was long and very critical. Mark has now responded, but…