And Thus, the Reformation

"Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen."

New York's 26.2

“It’s like a Cecil DeMille movie." Alberto Salazar on NYC's Marathon

Oilers As a Kid; Titans As an Adult

Lifetime fan: from Houston's "Luv ya Blue" to Nashville's "Code Blue."

Umberto Eco the Book-Sniff

"How I love the smell of book ink in the morning."

Smothering Ideology

Durch Vernunfteln wird Poesie vertrieben. "Ratiocination drives Poetry away." --Johann Goethe

Nefarious Nice

"The enemies of the truth are always awfully nice." --Christopher Morely

McCain on Obama

"He has always been in the left lane of American politics."

Richard Steele on Contentiousness

"Undue controversies scorch up all true love and zeal, grieving peaceability."

Watts Eleventaried

From all dwelling below the skies
Let the Creator's praise arise.

Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through lands, by every tongue.

Adore and tremble, for our God
He is a consuming fire.

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does its successive journeys run.

To Jesus endless prayer be made,
Endless praises crown His head.

His name like sweet perfume shall rise
With every morning sacrifice.

Blessings abound where'er He reigns;
Prisoners leap and loose their chains.

Weary find eternal rest,
And all who suffer want are blest.

And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on His name.

Let every creature rise and bring
Honors peculiar to our King.

Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud amen!

When We Knew the VP Debate Was Over

"It's nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?"

A Little Integrity

"A little integrity is better than any career." Ralph Waldo Emerson

From Psalm 55: A Lament

My heart is in anguish; terrors have fallen upon me here.

Fear and trembling have come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

Oh, that I had dove's wings! I'd fly away and rest.

Yes, I'd wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness.

I'd hurry to find shelter from the raging wind and tempest.

It's not an enemy who taunts me--then I'd bear it.

It's not an adversary who betrays me--then I'd hide away.

But it is you: my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

We used to take sweet counsel together--walking within God's house.

Evening and morning, I cry: Oh that God would save me.

Surely the Lord will hear and redeem my soul in safety.

Bill Thinks Palin's "Hot" (Sort of)

"I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot..." Bill Clinton

Chalmers and the Professional "Weaker Brothers"

"We must stand against the diseased touchiness of our modern age."

Avast, Me Hearties!

Yo ho ho! Today's the International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day!

Carlyle’s “Shot-Rubbish” Quip

“Confusion piled on confusion to the utmost horizon’s edge: obscure twilight."

Holy Rood Day

Rood is the Medieval English word for the Cross of Christ.

Thoughts on Obama's Speechifying

1. A pack of bosh.
2. As empty and remote as the mountains of the moon.
3. Fodder for a grand nefariology.
4. Like circling with Dante the sulfurous realms—only not as fun.
5. Playing CSI with history’s most malignant, vicious ideas.
6. Ascending a soapbox to announce I-am-you-and-you-are-me-and-we-are-all-together-joo-joo-ga-joob profundities.
7. Nonsense on stilts.
8. Hare Krishna logic.
9. Yakkety-yak, don’t talk back.
10. The magic of logogoggery and logocide
11. Sixties jabberwocky.

Emerson's Homage

"The greatest homage we can pay truth--is to use it.

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