Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits. It got really long so I took some bigger-than-tidbit items away and will post separately, perhaps:
- From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin…
- The Unknowable God and the knowable Bugs Bunny.
- Pugnacious Pat misses one, but comes close.
- ‘Mendoucheous.”
- June job numbers and the optimist in hell.
- “Pomodoro”?!
- Priceless!
- We will raise, or smash, the debt ceiling.
- Masson graphically provides perspective.
- Does anybody actually work any more?
- “True Religion” lies like hell.
- Evernote.
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Evangelicals aren’t conservative [politically], says Darryl Hart of Front Porch Republic. He’ll explain at 10 am Saturday morning, introducing From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism at an Eerdman’s bookstore in Grand Rapids.
He’ll probably find a number of thoughtful Calvinists who concur, as there’s a tension between Calvinists and more mainstream Evangelicals. A Calvinist, for instance, chokes on Campus Crusades First (of Four) Spiritual Law: “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life” — which, thanks be to God, I can now say again as an Orthodox.
Indeed, “wonderful plan” ain’t the half of it!
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“You cannot know God – but you have to know Him to know that.” – Fr. Thomas Hopko.
I noticed the strangeness of this when some 15 or 20 years back, Bugs Bunny, the cartoon character, celebrated his fiftieth “birthday,” accompanied with major magazine articles and analysis. Of course, all of the learned discourse was about someone who does not exist (at least in the usual meaning of the word). Thus there is a form of theology and religious thought that does not require belief in God (of course, both are false forms theology). Theology that begins with an assumed point of revealed knowledge and then proceeds to build upon that purely through the efforts of human reason is little better than theology without belief in God. God is not an axiom to be assumed as though He were a mathematical formula.
Fr. Stephen Freeman at Glory to God.
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I usually agree with Pat Buchanan these days, so this one kind of surprised me. But he makes the best case I’ve seen for the GOP’s intransigence.
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Neologism: Mendoucheous.
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Hearing and reading liberals try to make the June job number disappointment less disappointing because their guy Barack’s on watch reminds me vaguely of the joke about [I forget], a Calvinist and an Optimist who find themselves arriving at hell together. Each expresses his shock in the language of their respective traditions, with the optimist repeating “This is not hell. I am not here. This is not hell. I am not here. This is not hell. I am not here ….”
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I rarely blog about anything as pedestrian as productivity at work, but this item, “Pomodoro” (from a guest blogger of Michael Hyatt, who’s as “religious” as me but rarely blogs about it), looked intriguing.
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Four words and one photo. Priceless! (Political commentary from a cyberfriend of mine.)
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Here’s one to chew on: the national debt’s on autopilot and bills will be paid illegally if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.
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If Doug Masson has his way, we’ll continue the space program regardless of hard times. He has an amazing graphic at the end.
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Does anyone actually work any more? At 4 pm yesterday, I felt like I’d spent all day (1) “administering” and (2) responding to requests for golf outing sponsorships.
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True Religion jeans says it has to charge $300 per pair because they’re Made in America. Then how come Bill can sell American-made Khakis, with much more tailoring, for more like $100?
If you want goods made in America, by the way, bookmark Still Made in America.
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I now have passed 3000 notes in Evernote, which I didn’t “get” completely at first. Some day, maybe I can read the good ones that are as yet unread. There are others that some day I’ll weed out and save elsewhere as they’re not central to what I find it useful for.
Bon Appetit!
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 