This book has been talked about more than any other than perhaps the Purpose-Driven Life and Wild At Heart in the last year. I knew there were some complaints coming from the Reformed Baptists (but they complain about everything) about it affirming libertarian free will and a non-hierarchal Trinity. Those are two things I affirm, [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Has Anyone Read The Shack?
October 28, 2008Week 8: Triple Digit Happiness
October 28, 2008This week my boys pulled out all the stops. Getting Brian Westbrook back equals kicking butt, Roddy White is a magician, Kurt Warner is God’s favorite QB, and Tony Gonzalez is an engineer on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. Thank you Rob Bironas for your leg of steel, thank you Washington Redskins defense for [...]
Tax Plans
October 27, 2008A Harvard economist compares the McCain/Obama tax plans that yield some distressing results.
For my illustrative calculations, let me take r to be 10 percent and my remaining life expectancy T to be 35 years.
If there were no taxes, so t1=t2=t3=t4=0, then $1 earned today would yield my kids $28. That is simply the miracle [...]
Wiki on Yuppies
October 25, 2008I think its amazing that Wikipedia has an extensive entry on yuppies that includes 30 footnotes.
If Wes Anderson was McCain’s Campaign Manager…
October 24, 2008A Problem for Edwards/Piper Calvinism
October 23, 2008Since this blog has been reduced to lame political satire and fantasy football laments, I thought I would go back to an old standby topic: criticizing Calvinism. I recently participated in a discussion on another blog about why I think the Edwards/Piper model of God is theologically suspect. For those that aren’t familiar with what [...]
McCain Offends Poland
October 22, 2008WASHINGTON D.C.—Arizona senator and presidential candidate John McCain has raised the ire of Poland with his recent comments about Obama’s 9 point lead in battleground states. “I don’t trust the polls,” McCain said in a rally outside Pittsburg, “We have to put our country first and keep average Americans like Joe the Plummer free from [...]
Pure and Holy
October 22, 2008Watch the following video:
UPDATE: YouTube pulled it. Not sure why.
A question to Obama supporters who read this blog: What do you think when see stuff like this? Do you share the same feelings? Do you feel disturbed? Why or why not?
Week 7: In the Tank
October 21, 2008It’s official. My fantasy team is in the tank. Week 7 was the bye week from hell that was made worse by devastating injuries. My top three guys were all on the sidelines and don’t look like they will be on the field anytime soon. Between Tony Romo (out with a broken finger), Brian Westbrook [...]
Anti-Depressants Injected into Economy
October 16, 2008WASHINGTON D.C.—With the DOW plummeting at record levels and the American financial system in ruin, economic forecasters are all predicting a deep and long recession. In response to words like “great” and “depression” on Wall St. President Bush and Secretary Paulson are proposing to inject billions of anti-depressants into the failing banking system. The goal [...]
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