February 27th 2007
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Site News
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Links are one of the currencies of the internet, and regardless of whether articulated or not most people have some sort of perspective on how links should be distributed. Many sites have hundreds of outgoing links—veritable stacks of categorized blogrolls—while other sites carefully jockey their page-ranking to work out “link-exchanges†...
February 24th 2007
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History,
Politic
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It must be Debate About Islam Week. Another Timothy has posted some provocative thoughts on Islam and Christianity, as the title accurately alludes. I posted an extremely long response in his comments section, which you may be interested in viewing. Feel free to add your thoughts as ...
February 22nd 2007
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Politic
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What comes to mind when you think of Egypt? Pyramids and sand? Perhaps you think of hieroglyphics or the ancient exodus of Israel, but now you can add another bullet point to your associative memory list: a Theocratic judicial system.
See Blogger Gets 4 Years for Insulting Islam.
Judge Ayman al-Akazi issued the verdict in ...
February 22nd 2007
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Literature,
Theology
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How is a man destroyed? Is it through a grievous defect of character? Is it through a series of uncontrollable circumstances that place him in an impossible situation? Is it through a man’s own cultivated perversion? Are these destroyed men dealt a bad hand from Fate herself? Or are they ...
I am proud to announce that the Photography section of this blog is officially up and running. It has its own dedicated RSS feeds and has dedicated Categories as well. There are a few things I will undoubtedly tweak, but for the most part I am quite satisfied. ...
February 14th 2007
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Asides
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A few hours of heavy snow fall followed by a thick layer of freezing sleet brought most of the state of Ohio to a halt yesterday and today. This morning I thought I might have to go to work, but just as I was trying to pry open my frozen ...
This post is a letter I sent Rick Telander, a Chicago Sun-Times columnist in regard to his article Sports, religion strange bedfellows. Please read the article here.
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Dear Rick,
I was frustrated after reading your article and have been sorely tempted to fling an ad-hominem laden vindictive your way. Of course you might assume ...
February 11th 2007
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Literature
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Ariel was kind enough (is that the right adjective?) to hoist upon me the considerable responsibility of grabbing the nearest book at hand and dishing out a random choice morsel. I frown upon most memes, but the pathway to my heart in this matter has certainly been found. ...
February 7th 2007
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Adventure
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Arrived in from Utah late last night; and what an adventure we had! Skiing was incredible and all of us emerged unscathed (though I had an extremely close call that involved a high-speed crash and two broken skis). The mountains and the snow were fantastic and overall the experience was ...
February 1st 2007
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Poetry
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- GK Chesterton, The Collected Poems of GK Chesterton (136).