Pilgrimage is my kind of idea. I once would have balked at the thought of something so seemingly aimless and useless. Who wants to make a journey that they don’t know the point of? Who wants to set out and then figure out where they’re going? It sounds like a bunch of hippy crap to […]
Archive for March, 2008
Veteran blogger Michael Spencer (aka Internet Monk) has posted his list of ten reasons I don’t read your blog. I confess that I often think about blogging, so this was a fairly informative (and humorous) list. Here’s #2:
2. You have no sense of humor. You can’t laugh at yourself. You don’t find normal things funny. Your […]
Mark Bittman details his journey of observing a secular day of rest from technology over the past six months. Fascinating. I think I might just need to sign up. Link after the quote below:
Flying home from Europe a few months ago, I swiped a credit card through the slot of the in-seat phone, checked my e-mail […]
The Other Journal continues its current engagement with atheism with Ryan Dueck’s The New Atheism as Inadequate Theodicy. Dueck makes an interesting argument that the “new atheism” is ultimately portraying a simple and inadequate resolution to the problem of evil. While I find his argument fairly compelling, I think that Dueck would have done better […]
Although I am convicted of the truth of nonviolent and pacifistic approaches to everything, suppose for a moment, that we’ll grant that there are enemies out there that must be defeated by force. This enables us to look at the logic of violence from this angle: what if we did, indeed, defeat all of our […]
Watch Guinness brewmaster Fergal Murray school you in the art of the perfect two-part pour.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15lJn1r0Mk[/youtube]
HT: Guy
