Archive for December, 2021
This isn’t exactly a Christmas post, but it’s “Christmas-adjacent” (like Die Hard). How? It involves Scripture and the incarnation of the Son of God. In particular, the first verse in the Bible that is taken as an indication — even “proof” — of the triune nature of Yahweh. It reads, “Then God said, ‘Let us […]
A couple weeks ago, I cited a section of The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro, in which he gave an account of how the Left has gradually suppressed most Americans’ speech via things like the Cordiality Principle and “microaggressions”. In the next section (which I cite below), Shapiro described how a relatively small, radical minority […]
“Show… me… the fossils!” — me, with apologies to Jerry Maguire and Rod Tidwell And by “new” I mean the remains of a newly-discovered species, not a newly-evolved creature that was found munching away in some marshlands. But, you probably knew that… Even if you aren’t into paleontology that much, you may remember seeing hadrosaurs, […]
Some years ago, I had a lengthy email exchange with an old friend, one who was now very much on the left side of the cultural and socio-political aisle. At one point, he said or implied that some position I held (or implicitly supported, based on someone I quoted) was “not nice”. Having already established […]