• Obama: taxes noted, an epistle, and hate-filled speech.
• Modern abominations continue apace.
• Islam and rhetoric. Is that what Islam needs, schooling in dialectic and rhetoric?
• Walrus moonwalking.
• A Saint to remember.
• On science and the new atheists.

• One part of the racial debate, “how to trust someone who repeatedly calls you evil?”
• The downside of really crashproofing cars.
• This is really really cool, although not blog related.
• Mr Gorbachev was (is?) Christian. Was hiding his faith a good or bad thing?
• A passing noted. The U of Chicago back when I attended, showed the Man for All Seasons to all incoming students in the Orientation week,whether they still  do this I do not know.

• Out of step for the holiday.
• Infinite causal regress considered. On the mathematical case, what about Renormalization Group methods in Quantum Field Theory?
• Expert advice on rechargeables.
• Geeks and grammar, I’m going for choice #1 as seen above.

• That speech thing. Reasonable responses from the right. Here too. Analysis from Mr Fernandez. From the Libertarian. Da text. The Middle East angle. Author author!
• Folk science defined … again.
• Rowan Williams talks about science and theology.
• Lily, not of the Valley?
• “Not wanting to do that which you’re not good at” … considered Biblically. My motto: “Get up, do what you can. Go to sleep.”

• One difference is that Opus Dei, certain mainstream novelists notwithstanding, is exemplary.
• In memoriam, Metropolitan Laurus, the “best article so far”.
• A simpler climate model.
• No.
• The Law didn’t help.

• Mr Hansen is right and Mr Obama wrong on this one.
• Starbucks and Harry Potter.
• Heh.
• The Prime Directive is evil.
• A film to see.

• Cracks in the ranks in Israel.
• An interesting meditation on Melchizedek.
• Very cute.
• Shocking report on a government panel … they didn’t get it wrong.
• Obama and McCain … cricket races and the youth vote.
• Combinatorics on the seven deadly sins … As an exercise for the reader, add the 8th sin (self-esteem) and the 7 (or is it 8) theological virtues.

Two noted, “cricket race” is my term for opinion polls as I think the results are just about as useful. Also, these links are culled from my daily “highlights” that I post on my personal blog, for example here.

• Hostility toward individualism on the left coast.
• Dawn notes that GKC’s Orthodoxy is available for free on mp3. Also, GKC again, in which it is noted by Carl Olson (no relation) “I first read it in 1993 as an Evangelical Protestant; it played a significant role in my journey to the Catholic Church, which my wife and I entered in 1997.” For myself, Orthodoxy was the catalytic book propelling me back into Christianity.
• On the cult of Ms Rand. (HT: Swap Blog). For my part, anybody who has ever read (suffered through?) Atlas Shrugged should also read Matt Ruff’s absolutely hysterical romp Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy.
• The Christian Carnival is here.
• Helping street girls in India.

• I’m curious about this meme, Mr Obama “on top” because Ms Clinton can’t “mathematically” win without superdelagates. Neither can Mr Obama in any real world sense. Why is there a sense that there is a difference there?
• Jehu and the casual cruelty of the ancient world.
• Kill your sister, get one year … in some countries. The country is Islamic. Why is that not a surprise?
• Three myths on poverty and abortion punctured by reality. The link is to the myths where there is a link to reality.
• Beauty in nature via NASA.
• Wise words from Chuck Norris (I’m not kidding).

• Guitar hero Iraq riff by Mr Yon.
• On Obama and his Biblical commentary (and how it doesn’t really compute).
• Not stopping to pee.
• On Tradition and traditionalism.
• Galileo.

• Good news noted.
• The Middle East and the golden rule.
• Homeschooling under attack in the most liberal of states, which it seems is also wants to be the most totalitarian.
• Fun with chlorine trifluoride.
• Home power plants.
• Finally an intriguing quote.

• This is the sort of crap Obama wants to encourage. And some distinct disapproval of some of his legislative stances.
• Nerfing the planet continues.
• Christian living and circumstance around the world, including top 10 most oppressive nations (from the Christian perspective).
• Where two or three are gathered, view one and two.
• Patron Saint of liberty?

• Two things, here and here, both called “bike”.
• I ask you these questions three, “What is your favorite color?”, … uhm. Oops. Wrong questions, try these.
• Some reading lists for global jihad.
• Press and the Clinton campaign. No love lost there, eh?
• Starting in 1976 and for about 20 years … a lot of my time, effort, and imagination  …  Memory eternal.

• Well, not exactly in the best of taste, but I laughed.
• Strategy for the future.
• Faith, politics, and Obama. One view, a second, and another. Romans, obscure? Where’d that come from?
• An opponent searches for the upside to Obama.
• Myanmar.

• Humor found (mostly) on church signage.
• Cricket races in New Jersey, against expectations.
• Reading those with whom you disagree. It’s why I recently picked up a bunch of Zizek’s books. Zizek is an unrepentant Leninist/Lacanian radical materialist which is about as far from my viewpoint as you can get. Yet he is provocative and intelligent, and ultimately thought provoking. Who do you read that holds a position wildly different from yours?
• On Kosovo.
• Two remarks of Mr Obama’s. A study in contrast.
• Wales and a suicide epidemic among the young.
• Zoom, if you have money to burn. Another car related note here.