Brevity.

• Hoax.
• Boom.
• Swelter (Hoax)?
• Soon.
• Cinema.
• Cricket (races) and Intuition.
• Blue, Obama, and the fetus. Obama and change?
• #51.

• Mugabe and carbon offset nonsense.
• More great links … Siris(ly).
• Fulfillment and the homemaker.
• Mr Obama and abortion.
• I don’t even know the symptoms. Such a sheltered life the monagomous lead.
• A very strange game.

• Rehab in Saudi Arabia?
• Income, tax, and graph.
• Something thoughtful to chew on for the morning, Louth on Augustine.
• Beauty in nature.
• Poverty.
• Of bio-fuel and consequence.

Today, for brevity and the holiday, you’re getting the whole list that normally get posted on my (personal) blog. On other day’s I cull them for what I think might be of higher interest to what I perceive as the reader’s interest here.

Yet another wordle, the Trisagion prayer. Tomorrow Le Tour begins (some history … the cannibal and his domination here).

Fourth of July

• From the Scoop.
• And Orthodoxy.
• Coolidge.
• Reasons to celebrate.
• Best wishes from the other side of the planet (and a prayer request).
• From Jay.
• A religious holiday?

Not holiday related:

•  University President, what not to do.
• A book, noted and recommended (in fact a series). Clever title too.
• Of Art, Evil underlining Doestoevsky’s note that Beauty willl save the world.
• God and silence.
• Verse (or more beauty).
• Faith and the State.
• Religion and state, in Russia. And conservation there as well.
• Yaay.
• 7th day Adventist Baptist wordle (updated: see the comment).
• One of the strangest picture’s you’ll encounter.

• On the Square looks at the New England “Pregnancy Pact.”
• China. Pollution.
• A book to disabuse the notion of a violent angry (Old Testament) view of God.
• Rights and jobs, rightly put.
• A film to anticipate.

• Being human.
• Global warming and the “scientific consensus myth.”
• Christians at war.
• Progressive culture and sustainability.
• Orthodox marriage tradition … one difference … no vows.
• The very catholic John McCain.

• A conservative suggestion of SSM critiqued.
• Le Tour begins Saturday. A look back at the 1968 edition for a little history.
• What passes for slings and arrows in the judiciary. Different fonts, my gosh.
• Marriage in perspective, and Hillaire Belloc.
• Some beauty for your Tuesday morning.
• Servers, liturgy and gender.

• Google changing brains one googler at a time?
• A two part essay on war. Part one. Part two. Two women on war. Two views.
• A survey which is “not even close” which may impact the election.
• A path from pro-choice to pro-life recounted.
• And toss the key.
• Nerfing the world … or not.

• Big big big screen.
• 8 down, 5 to go?
• On the games.
• Speeding up change, in the military.
• With tongue firmly not in cheek.
• Guns and gurls.
• On SCOTUS.

• On the Square looks at the myth of the crackup of the religious right.
• Mr Obama’s words amplified.
• Mugabe policy considered.
• China, America and Taiwan.
• Priests palaver, and locating the problem within abortion as contraception.
• Gosh, he seems such a nice man … not.
• Islam in Indonesia … and conflict.

• I might have mentioned this once before, but in case y’all missed it, one of the better web-comics … girl genius, on a MWF schedule.
• One survey of the top 20 (public) intellectuals has all of the top ten as Muslim scholars. Hmmm.
• South America and terror.
• A prominent Protestant blogger, in a sideways fashion, finds a reason for personal (spoken!) confession.
• Some music for your morning, Bruckner’s Ave Maria.

• Bad men, women’s choices, and consequences.
• A mapping of political blogs.
• My first thought was, Jonah Goldberg has heard of the Philokalia, that’s a surprise … but then … it all became clear, it’s from watching the Hulk.
• Well, well, that took a long time, Obama plays the race card. Is it to deflect criticism like this? Or this?
• On waterboarding.
• On #2, is that what I think it is? Getting fined/stopped for not breaking the law, i.e., driving at and not above the speed limit in the wrong lane?

• Military adventurism and consequences.
• A forgotten tragedy. Oh, and update your feed reader, Richard moved.
• Move along, no religious content here, Jews beaten by just “North African youths.”
• City design for those banking on predicting a future increase in mean solar output.
• Resolved. Use the word “brainstorm” in the future.
• Two posts on love, #1 and #2.

• Rome and three Mormans.
• In praise of  . Yes!
• Canada is nuts.
• Myanmar.
• On knowledge of God.
• Automobile innovations from … Hungary.
• Bang! Heh.

• A printing press of sorts, “electrifying”.
• Orthodoxy and the male as priest (and bishop).
• Mr Obama, islamophobe?
• On Edison. Forget “be like Mike”, “be like Thomas!”
• Obama, lying to somebody, link one, link two. One reason to “love Obama.”
• God grant her many years.