Words from the 8th century, B.C.E.
Micah was an eighth-century prophet, B.C.E. (before the Christian Era) a contemporary, perhaps a disciple of the prophet Isaiah, according to Robert Ellsberg’s All Saints, a tome from which it is our custom to read the concise life of a ’saint,’ both the Church-declared sort and the actual kind, each day. Last night I read [...]
The essays advance… a little
The labor in 21st century essay advanced a bit today on the train up to the city. Still needs a lot of work. I also finished, for time being, researching the faith essay (I finished Wired’s recent article on faith and the new atheism). I’m also rewatching films about faith, mostly Sci Fi: Contact, Titan [...]
Enemy of the state
We bought a movie from iTunes last night, just to see what the experience was like. The movie starts as soon as the first bits are down, but it stalled frequently as playback overtook download. We watched an hour of Enemy of the State, quite the topical flick given the current US government’s [...]
Heading out on the road…
Just my luck, a business trip sends me out on the road, just in time for the most recent Homeland Security response to world affairs. I’m leaving the toothpaste and hair gel home. So we’ll be in airports a lot for the forseeable future. Hope they all have WiFi…
Hello world…
First morning of the new blog: already we have a few notes from readers. Charles offers an anti-spam tip, Barb wonders if link colors can be adjusted to suit older eyes (but, who’s aging?). Eugene can’t find my email address.
Today’s task will be getting the Feed Director plug-in working, so users who are subscribed to [...]
A political post
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” — H. L. Mencken
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