Thursday, March 25, 2010

more from MOBA

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This single painting planted the seed that grew into the Museum of Bad Art. The motion, the chair, the sway of her breast, the subtle hues o...

from a talk

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I am reminded of a wonderful day when God sent a personal message to me. One Sunday years ago, in that dim world somewhere between winter an...

these things happen

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About a year after that experience, I had another that convinced me that listening to the subtle stirrings of the still small voice is a mat...

more interesting observations from Bro. Bushman

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Reasons Behold, that which you hear is as the voice of one crying in the wilderness–in the wilderness, because you cannot see him–my voice, ...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Political scientist Elvin Lim carried out a semantic study of the all presidential inaugural addresses and state of the union addresses. He ...

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state of the union

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On the podium the president offers up preposterously grandiose assurances of protection, provision, and moral guidance from his government, ...

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If you had been living in Jesus’s time and had heard Him teaching, would you have been one of His followers? To be an honest taker of this t...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

detroit, detroit, that toddlin town

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Detroit is dying. It is the first metropolis in the United States to be facing extinction. We have never seen anything like this in America...
Monday, March 22, 2010

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A startling work, and one of the largest crayon on canvas pieces that most people can ever hope to see. The bulging leg muscles, the black s...

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This disturbing work "makes an offer you can't refuse". The chilling, matter-of-fact manner in which the subject presents the ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

expert in the unlovely

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Writings about Le Corbusier often begin with an encomium to his importance, something like: “He was the most important architect of the twen...

Fess Parker, Tennessee mountaintop Mensch, RIP

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the centre of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization tha...

recollections from a life

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One experience seems so incredible that I can hardly believe it myself. We were living at the home of a cousin of Ernest's, way up in th...

riding herd

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One day Dad said to me, "My girl, if you follow this tendency to criticize, I'm afraid you will talk yourself out of the Church. I...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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How then shall we come unto Christ so that everything will be different from what it could possibly be otherwise? By sacrificing all taking ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Moment of Joy "All my life I have been lying. Even when I told the truth. For I never told the truth for its own sake, but only for my...

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Albert Jay Nock argued that studying the classics as an undergraduate was far and away the best educational program a young person could ado...

count their blessings

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"In preparation for the 2010 census, state employees even took GPS readings for every front door in America so that individuals can be ...

nuanced airstrike kills nuanced civilians

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Kunar province, Afghanistan "Gen. Stanley McChrystal's nuanced Afghanistan war plan took a hit on ...

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Elder Levi Savage Levi Savage, of the Willie handcart tragedy of 1856, was captain of the second hundred, one of only four among that compa...
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at least there's a Book of Mormon on the nightstand

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Porn mogul Jay Quinlan really hates when people on the Internet steal his intellectual property. At a panel this week at the “XBIZ State of ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Historic: Mahan principle reversed!

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U.S. Army units fighting the Taliban in Helmand province have a compensation system for any death, injury or damage to crops and buildings c...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Martin Luther: "Marriage is the school of love"

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This is how Michael Novak, speaking specifically of the bonds of marriage, describes the paradox and its transcendence: Marriage is an assau...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is a Police State

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Americans have been losing the protection of law for years. In the 21st century the loss of legal protections accelerated with the Bush admi...
Monday, February 8, 2010

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One should not try to console either those who lost their eyes, or those who have suffered other losses--of money, health, or a loved one. I...

truth in advertisng

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Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasu...
Monday, February 1, 2010

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--Lecompte Stewart

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--Maynard Dixon
Sunday, January 31, 2010

are we to be spared nothing?

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championsh...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

how do you measure?

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For how do we appraise the historic significance of a period? By what standards do we measure culture? It is customary in the modern world t...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

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"With so little effort on my own part, I can empower an unlimited amount of people for all time. I can't imagine a better use of my...

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Interstate commerce in action! "Democrats say that failing to buy insurance is a form of economic activity, because it shifts costs to ...

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"You need to evaluate yourselves carefully. Take a careful inventory of your habits, your speech, your appearance, your weight, and you...
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When we take a responsible step to do what is right or sacrifice what is wrong, there flows to us, often immediately, a quiet confirmation f...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

morning in america

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New senator/rock star Scott Brown The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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The first and most dominant theme [of Les Miserables]is that of redemption. The word “redeem” means “to buy back,” and much of the plot turn...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

which is scarier?

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Editor's intro: "Myleene Klass, the broadcaster and model, brandished a knife at youths who broke into her garden — but has been wa...
Friday, January 15, 2010

strong candidate for best concluding paragraph we know

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"Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cy...

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“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry.” --Emily Dickinson
Saturday, January 9, 2010

who wants to be a trillionaire?

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As recently as 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar was worth more than the U.S. dollar, but by January 2009, Zimbabwe had degraded its money to the po...

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Unlike the branches of a tree, the network of veins in a typical leaf is full of closed loops. Even after a visit by a hungry insect, no par...

we hold this right to be inalienable

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"After all," said Clare, "they had a right to happiness." We were discussing something that once happened in our own nei...