Dark Brightness

Binksy is discussing the Motoons. He points out the difference in reactions between followers of Christ and followers of an AntiChrist. I’d add that the Greens, the new agers, and the Hindus have the same problem… … for they lack the spiritual and philosophical roots to handle riducule, argument and repression. They have not grown [...]

This is from Eternity Road . And it is a wonderfully apt description of the Democrats.

The oil spill is simply an apt metaphor for every disastrous action of the Obama administration, the kind that keep pouring out of dirty, slimy, corrupt minds day in and day out. The only final question: is there a cavalry out there, [...]

I work for a university. In the Commonwealth (with the exception of Oxford and Cambridge) you have a broad education at secondary level & then have vocational courses running in parallel with scholars gaining their bachelor’s: Law, Medicine are bachelor’s, as are Music, Pharmacy and Engineering. There is no expectation that everyone will do English, [...]

We guess https://pukeko.net.nz is written by a man 55%, however it's quite gender neutral.

via GenderAnalyzer – Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman.

The Isreali and Egyptian blockade of Gaza is about stopping rockets falling on Isreal and the export of terror to Egypt. The Isreali navy were within their rights… but the recent “relief” flotilla was political theatre.

The flotilla was stocked with the usual assemblage of the wilfully naive: a few hundred European and other “do-gooders,” including [...]

Comments. The crowd had travelled a long way to see Jesus. Into a deserted place. Where food could not be found. Jesus had compassion and cured the sick. Then fed them. The teaching was to the disciples. The crowd was more than 5000.

Matthew 14:13-21 13Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted [...]

The wonderful female life preserver says that chivalry is dead. I suggest that it is not the role of women to kill or maintain gentlemanly behaviour, for instead it is the role of men to protect the weak, be polite to old ladies (not only the ones who are employed) and generally be well dressed and [...]

P J O’Rourke — back on form — invents the pre-obit. as a means to revitalize newspapers. This is an error. The pre-obit revitalizes magazines. Where they could be wonderful — and at times exist — on the pages of cricitism the Spectator (and a few other journals) print.

The beauty of obituaries for the still-extant [...]

We are only justified by the sacrifice of Christ. For no man can keep the law. We all have failed. We all condemn ourselves. We all are unreliably correct.

Galatians 2:11-21 11But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood self-condemned; 12for until certain people came from James, he used [...]

In the last 20 or so years, I have found there are certain groups that are quite useful. They reliably get thing wrong, support causes that will actively damage or destroy society, or advocate acts which range from unethical to frankly evil. These groups are not all of the left, but that is the way [...]

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I am not a man. I am not a veteran of many relationships. However, it seems to me that most men are not all that complicated in their needs. They need sex. They need food. They need sleep. They need to spend time doing activities they enjoy. They need [...]

Nick Cave is playing… he cannot believe in an interventionist God, or angels, but he looks at his beloved and prays. What Nic reminds us is that prayer to any spirit or person with no power tomake change is  the work of a fool. For this reason, the classic liberal does not pray. He meditates. [...]

It’s difficult. One of the bloggers I read is in chronic pain: one has chronic depression: many others are struggling.

Psalm 57 1Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, until the destroying storms pass by. 2I [...]

Big government is not local enough  to deal with disasters. And BP — being forced to drill out of US waters — has an engineering nightmare. Obama thought he could spin this. He can’t. And he can’t solve the problem.

Mr. Obama himself, when running for president, made much of Bush administration distraction and detachment during [...]

Trinity Sunday. Message was around Jesus telling the disciples he was leaving — going to the father — and if this did not happen the spirit would not come. For the disciples could not handle the teaching to come. It would be revealed by the spirit… after the resurrection. This is unsuprising. We are limited. [...]

Saul Alinsky once said that to make change, require those in power to live up to the standards that You say they should have. That is: you define the standards and then you accuse them of failure. You set yourself as Judge Dredd — prosecutor, judge, jury. And executioner. And you never apply the same [...]

The webpage kept on blinking. In addition, I am becoming more concerned about Facebook keeping half the web behind their firewall… So… I have killed facebook. I am on Intense Debate, and I have Google Buzz and Buddypress installed.  I have removed Sociable and some internal xml plugins. The site is still blinking off. Mutter…. [...]