Full of Sound and Fury; Signifying . . . Nothing
January 6, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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I didn't know you could do this with Legos
January 6, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Calvinists are swarming over on Free Republic
January 6, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Arise (some older mss still read ‘Swarm‘), O Calvinists, and plead your cause. The doctrines of grace are mightily assailed by those who would proclaim with their father, “I will be like the Most High.” Set forth the biblical case for a sovereign God who is jealous for His glory. Disallow through disputation (and lampooning when needed) the damnable errors of those who have refashioned the great sola doctrines into a salvation-helper gospel that exalts the fallen will of man. From every corner, in every thread exalt the right of God to do whatsoever He pleaseth. Be not dismayed by persistent anthropocentric rantings. Blessed are you when they revile you for the sake of the truth. Happy are ye when the Servetus card is played and the strawmen are paraded before you for He who is enthroned in heaven reigns.
Google is for Dhimmies
January 6, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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If horses ran the world . . .
January 6, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Okay, as long as we're in the mood for some Shatner, feast on this
January 6, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Daddy-O William Shatner's Beatnik Interpretation of Sarah Palin
January 5, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Radical Feminist Theologian Mary Daly Dead at 81
January 4, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Feminist theologian Mary Daly died Jan. 3. She was a radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian who taught at Boston College for 33 years. Daly consented to retire from Boston College in 1999, after violating university policy by refusing to allow male students in her Women’s Studies classroom.
May the good Lord have mercy on her soul. Let’s all remember her in our prayers. Many of you know about her and her legacy. For those who do not, you can read more about her here and here.
The Time of Your Life
January 4, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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Will The Next War Be Fought Over Water?
January 4, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
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The reason water is such a big deal in Southern California is the opposite of why it’s no big deal here in Ohio. There’s plenty of H2O here in the Buckeye State, plenty of rain, plenty of snow, plenty of water everywhere you go. But Los Angeles? Orange County? Riverside? San Diego? They sit in an arid zone and most all the water consumed there must be brought in from out of the area. It costs big bucks to keep Southern California properly supplied with water, and with upwards of 23 million inhabitants there (about twice the number of people in a region roughly the size of Ohio), can be difficult as well as costly.
The following article on the leftward-tilting NPR website considers that very possibility and raises some disturbing possibilities, wars over water included.
While I’m fairly certain that California will never go to war with Ohio in order to acquire water, even so, California will have a dire problem on its hands (even by California standards of dire problems) if, someday, the well runs dry.
“The lesson of history is that in the tumultuous adjustment that surely lies ahead, those societies that find the most innovative responses to the crisis are most likely to come out as winners, while the others will fall behind. Civilization will be shaped as well by water’s inextricable, deep interdependencies with energy, food, and climate change. More broadly, the freshwater crisis is an early proxy of the twenty-first century’s ultimate challenge of learning how to manage our crowded planet’s resources in both an economically viable and an environmentally sustainable manner. By grasping the lessons of water’s pivotal role on our destiny, we will be better prepared to cope with the crisis about to engulf us all. . . . (continue reading)
Related: “Three Reasons That Violence Could Erupt” over water.