Thursday, June 29, 2006
Links With Some Extended Comment (Because Life Is Slowly Returning To Normal - For A Minute Or Two)
I found the coverage of the Supreme Court decision concerning Texas redistricting yesterday fascinating. First the Examiner tells me it's bad. Then Captain Ed tells me it's not so bad. Rick said it was pretty good. Then eternal optimist Hugh says it's a "Huge Win". Everybody's right on this one, but nobody mentions the thing that really bothers me. The one district the court said has to be redone, they said so on the basis of correct hispanic representation, i.e. they consent to the creation of race based voting blocks. Isn't that inherently racist? I know, the Voting Rights Act, but....
A self-negating headline, meaning nothing.
Actually, I do know. But then I'm a geek that way. BTW, you know a movie is BIG-TIME when it gets reviewed on Space.com. None of the other superhero movies were - does this make Superman uber-geekish?
Mohler's right, this is scary. That man would try to usurp the power of God is the very definition of sin, that they would name it so in print is horrifying. This is what happens when we don't teach people they are sinners, and what that means. Maybe I ought to teach a Sunday school class on sin?
This is not news - there is always something fishy in Kentucky. Any self-respecting Hoosier knows that.
I'm watching you!
Dadmanly takes on the "Times Two" catastrophe. I think Joe Carter struck at the root of this issue very well. News requires context. In this case, the context is the GWOT, the enemy, and saving lives, a context both Times completely ignored. It would be easy to say this is the result of TV, with its short-attention-span-creating way of doing business, but what about education with its lazy "we-can't-get-the-kids-to-pay-attention-this-is-what-you-need-to-know-for-the-test" approach? Shouldn't education be providing the counterweight to TV? Shouldn't schools be building context, or at least teaching kids how to build their own context?
You can never win in LA.
Barak Obama moves to the center and tries to appeal to evangelicals - a clear sign he is thinking about national office. Hotline has a complete quote. "It won't work" is the essence of this RCP Blog post. What I hate most about this is evangelicals are not a lock-step voting block. At least they shouldn't be. If the politicos try to turn us into one, many will succumb and we will end up being defined politically instead of religiously. Somehow there has to be a way to adjust the rhetoric on both the political and religious side here.
Anybody heard of the point of diminishing return?
Can't we just celebrate something? Must there always be a dark side?
I also have to say I think the Holy Spirit transmits person-to-person, not really over wires or RF waves.
Was that dill?
Related Tags: science, redistricting, Supreme Court, Superman, secrets, journalism, evanglicals, voting block, joke, humor
A self-negating headline, meaning nothing.
Actually, I do know. But then I'm a geek that way. BTW, you know a movie is BIG-TIME when it gets reviewed on Space.com. None of the other superhero movies were - does this make Superman uber-geekish?
Mohler's right, this is scary. That man would try to usurp the power of God is the very definition of sin, that they would name it so in print is horrifying. This is what happens when we don't teach people they are sinners, and what that means. Maybe I ought to teach a Sunday school class on sin?
This is not news - there is always something fishy in Kentucky. Any self-respecting Hoosier knows that.
I'm watching you!
Dadmanly takes on the "Times Two" catastrophe. I think Joe Carter struck at the root of this issue very well. News requires context. In this case, the context is the GWOT, the enemy, and saving lives, a context both Times completely ignored. It would be easy to say this is the result of TV, with its short-attention-span-creating way of doing business, but what about education with its lazy "we-can't-get-the-kids-to-pay-attention-this-is-what-you-need-to-know-for-the-test" approach? Shouldn't education be providing the counterweight to TV? Shouldn't schools be building context, or at least teaching kids how to build their own context?
You can never win in LA.
Barak Obama moves to the center and tries to appeal to evangelicals - a clear sign he is thinking about national office. Hotline has a complete quote. "It won't work" is the essence of this RCP Blog post. What I hate most about this is evangelicals are not a lock-step voting block. At least they shouldn't be. If the politicos try to turn us into one, many will succumb and we will end up being defined politically instead of religiously. Somehow there has to be a way to adjust the rhetoric on both the political and religious side here.
Anybody heard of the point of diminishing return?
Can't we just celebrate something? Must there always be a dark side?
I also have to say I think the Holy Spirit transmits person-to-person, not really over wires or RF waves.
Was that dill?
Related Tags: science, redistricting, Supreme Court, Superman, secrets, journalism, evanglicals, voting block, joke, humor
