imonk update

You know, it's one thing to write a long post which everyone will agree with.

It's another to get it published in the Christian Science Monitor.

It's a whole 'nother thing to get it on the from page of Drudge:

Congrats, Michael: that's the blogger's highest achievement award right there.

fair warning

Haloscan is eating comments. I dunno why.

Be sure that if you are posting a mangum opus that you have composed off-line before you hit "send".

Not good enough for Dan's Blog ...

... but we take risks here.

OK: Be warned that this video lulls you into a pleasing little zone of coffee house mellowness, and then you get Rick Rolled, and then there's a sudden outburst of Chris Crocker set to mellow jazz guitar, and then it ends with the Power Ranger's theme.

If you can not be offended, and you like this sort of thing, and you want to show Dan Phillips that you are the better blog readers by toughing it out through the Crocker outburst, I present this to you:

oh, pickle. OK. Nevermind.

If you are spoiling for a fight or whatever, just go away. This was clever, but it has nothing to do with the Gospel -- and I'm not preaching the Gospel here. I'm blogging in a very casual way. Hold it against me if that's how you are.

Read this more than once

Let me say this: there is no greater human motivation than the need for other relationships. The question is only if we will make the right choices.

And that's not only for those who are lonely: it is for those who read James 2 and want to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Wishing others not to be lonely is not the same thing as standing in their loneliness with them and fighting for hope. If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in fellowship, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be content as you are," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

Indeed: what good is that?

I have a better idea

What if people really cared about people? Let me suggest that if Christians, without giving up one iota or one inflection mark of doctrine, actually loved other people besides their own families, the Japanese would be a lot more interested in replicating faith in Christ rather than building machines which can, well, you read that story.

It would be harder than what we do now. It would hurt us more. It would be worth it.

profoundly wrong

Today President Obama called cloning "profoundly wrong", which made me wonder about how that works out in the moral calculus.

Ending the life of a baby to collect stem cell tissue is apparently not profoundly wrong, but cloning a baby -- or me for that matter -- to do anything with it (collect stem cells, make me a new heart for my bum ticker, get skin grafts in case I burn myself, etc.) is "profoundly wrong".

See -- I think all of it is an abomination. All of is it tantamount to infanticidal cannibalism. But I have a point of reference for saying that -- what's Obama's point of reference?

Blogroll Update

OK -- I'm going to clean up the blogroll this week as Blogrolling.com has finally gotten its feet back under itself.

If your blog is on the blogroll, and you're happy about it, do nothing.

If you want to be added, go to the blogroll's homepage by clicking the "Scum of the Earth" graphic and follow those instructions.

They read that here

WSJ called Obama "Jimmy Carter".

I said it first. They are obvioulsy reading in spite of my spotty posts.

A Pathetic Tell

Some of you watch "professional" poker, I know, and some of those guys are ridiculous.

OK: all of those guys are ridiculous, but some of them have a really solid poker face -- but many of them have a pathetic "tell". You can tell when they're bluffing.

Turns out the Global Warming saints have a terrible tell. In fact, they cannot wait to turn their cards over to show you they were bluffing all along.

This, btw, is why Hillary didn't get elected president: nobody believed her. Every time her lips moved, we knew she was lying -- we just couldn't quite tell how big a fib she was floating. Now, at least, we know.

No Phil Perkins update

Apparently woodchucks have dug up the one good Internet trunk line in Montana or something. Phil has gone eerily silent.

Maybe he's getting ready to expose the Shepherd' Conference as secretly in California and therefore in league with all manner of evil or something.