Jim Caviezel hits it out of the park

  Actor Jim Caviezel put our current dilemma into words in a 2018 gathering.  I’m obliged to The Conservative Treehouse for originally embedding this video.  The relevant excerpt is less than three minutes long (the video is keyed to start and end at the appropriate points), and well worth your time to watch. Mr. Caviezel’s… Continue reading Jim Caviezel hits it out of the park

The logical consequences of Greening

  Bestselling author, blogger and meatspace friend Michael Z. Williamson hit one out of the park with a post on MeWe yesterday.  I can’t link to it directly, because MeWe doesn’t provide that facility, but here it is. One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect… Continue reading The logical consequences of Greening

Quote of the day

From Theodore Dalrymple, writing in Taki’s Magazine: America has ceased to be different from the rest of the Western world in remaining religious, with the result that politics is the new religion. It has removed transcendence and salvation from the private and personal sphere to the public realm, where it can lead only to conflict.… Continue reading Quote of the day

Trite, perhaps, but still very, very true

Here’s Stephan Pastis’ “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip from last Sunday.  Click the image to be taken to a larger view at the strip’s Web page. That’s something I tried to get across to my congregations as a pastor.  Am I praying for God to do something?  Guess whose hands and feet and eyes and… Continue reading Trite, perhaps, but still very, very true

Quote of the day

From an article at the Modern War Institute at West Point, titled “You really think I’m irrelevant?  LOL.” A letter to Clausewitz haters from beyond the grave.  It points out that despite the passage of time and technological developments since he wrote his classic treatise “On War“, Carl von Clausewitz‘s military doctrines remain relevant today.… Continue reading Quote of the day

Truth is hard in a special-snowflake world

Film screenwriter, director and producer Christopher McQuarrie sent a string of tweets a few days ago that encapsulate how he sees the industry, and how to achieve success in it.  He’s blunt (almost brutally so) about how nobody’s going to do the work if you don’t, and how you can’t expect the Success Fairy to… Continue reading Truth is hard in a special-snowflake world