Many, many thoughts have been percolating, and I’m going to try and get at least a few of them out there on the table, perhaps to be developed further at some point. First, I came across this on Salon, and thought this quote was rather telling: Because Bush and his fundamentalist backers lack a knowledge […]
Posted on November 17th, 2004 by admin
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A group of our climbing friends got together with us last night to celebrate Jen’s birthday (and her survival of her first semester of graduate school) at the Sharp Edge. A good time was had by all. If there’s anything I miss from our pre-Seb days, it’s the frequency of getting together with folks to […]
Posted on November 17th, 2004 by admin
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Wired has an interview with Jeff Tweedy. Interesting stuff. I was once on the Wilco bandwagon, mostly because I felt I had to get on it since I was such an Uncle Tupelo fan, but I never really felt that strongly about Tweedy, and I always liked Jay Farrar’s songs more. I’ve always been intrigued […]
Posted on November 15th, 2004 by admin
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Rarely is Australia a rally of attrition, but this year’s race wasn’t typical. Only four factory cars made it to the finishing ramp (one of each of the four major makers), and one (Marcus Gronholm) crashed out not once but twice. In the end, Sebastien Loeb matched Didier Auriol’s record of six rally wins in […]
Posted on November 14th, 2004 by admin
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On a lighter note, let’s talk about the season ending Rally Australia. First, a couple of big pieces of news: 1. PSA, which owns both Peugeot and Citroen, announced that 2005 would be Citroen’s and Peugeot’s final year competing the WRC. Shocking news indeed, but this could open the door for Skoda and Mitsubishi to […]
Posted on November 11th, 2004 by admin
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First, Keith has posted a response from Eric Miller about his article in the Post-Gazette. That got me thinking, as did a lunchtime discussion we had at the office. And it got me reading. So I read this article on Christian Counterculture. This really hit home: Instead of crusading and picketing against all of the […]
Posted on November 11th, 2004 by admin
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Philadelphia School District to sell naming rights for new school for $5 million. I’ll just leave it at that.
Posted on November 11th, 2004 by admin
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First, Crooked Timber is spreading the word about the gradual erosion of our system of government. Second, via Keith, Comment has a series of articles comparing the blogosphere with European coffeehouses. Jump aboard the meme train.
Posted on November 11th, 2004 by admin
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I was going to talk about Eric Miller’s article regarding his choice for president, but Keith has already commented on that, and, for the most part, I agree with him. Eli passed this along to me this morning, and it’s pretty interesting. I think what I really want to talk about is the “cultural war” […]
Posted on November 10th, 2004 by admin
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Everything you wanted to know about dispensationalism (and its connection to the political right) but were afraid to ask.
Posted on November 9th, 2004 by admin
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