Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Billion-Dollar Numbness
The Senate Finance Committee just gave the go-ahead to move forward with the health care reform bill everyone has been yelling about for the past year. According to the reports, the estimated cost of the whole thing would be $829 billion, or $829,000,000,000. Lots of zeros.
Over the past few years, with all the recession talk and bailouts [...]
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Tags: consumerism, disillusionment, politics, the world
Postmodernity and Prop 8
I was watching a bit of the live coverage from the California Supreme Court hearings to overturn Prop 8. For those of you who aren’t aware of what Prop 8 is, first you need to move out from under your rock, and second, it was the ballot measure passed this past November restricting the definition [...]
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Tags: Christian culture, Christianity, church, homosexuality, politics
Where Were You When
Today I was convinced that three months ago, in a crowded warehouse amidst a crowd of several hundred people, I voted for the right man when I cast my ballot and exercised my right as a citizen of this country.
One of my professors today made the remark that today is going to be one of [...]
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Tags: Christianity, God, life, politics, the world
First of the Year
I’ve read a few places that the trick to maintaining and increasing your readership on a blog such as this is to post regular, consistent updates. As you can tell, I am not that good at blogging. I think my problem is that I have too many thoughts all at once and never the time [...]
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Tags: Christianity, life, politics, random
Some Thoughts on the Election
The votes have been cast and finally we can all go back to our normal everyday lives, free of the incessant barrage of political advertisement, the mud-slinging and the namecalling, and the talking heads of the 24-hour news cycle. Well, maybe not the latter. Somehow they always find something new to ramble on about. But [...]
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Tags: Christianity, politics
Something is Wrong
Something is wrong when an organization claiming to be a “Christian” organization (which shall remain unnamed) posts this on their website in an attempt to encourage evangelical voters to not just vote for John McCain, but to actually fear the future should Barack Obama be voted into office. I understand that [...]
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Tags: Christian culture, politics
The Tragi-comedy of W.
In a fit of Friday night boredom I saw the new film W. by director Oliver Stone. Up to about three weeks ago I hadn’t heard of the movie, but its been getting a lot of criticism and controvery for its audacious premise of portraying the administration of a sitting president. So our of curiosity [...]
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Tags: movies, politics
Leaving Church
Well once again it has been far too long between recent blog posts. Unfortunately the pressures of employment demands have consumed the majority of my thoughts and time, and whenever I have a minute from thoughts of work, the upcoming missions trip steals the rest of my time. The past month of near-full-time employment has [...]
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Tags: church, life, politics, random
Get Your Venn Diagram On
When we first did Venn Diagrams however long ago, I never realized their full potential. Political satire and intellectual argument? Can it be?
Anyways, a blog I frequent (Indexed) does some creative things with the concept of Venn Diagrams. So check it out. I thought the one for today was amazing:
Ah, nutty preachers.
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Tags: Christian culture, politics, random
The Joy of Political Cartoons
I found this and thought it was funny, so I’m posting it here.
Give it a minute… You’ll get it
[And just so you know, you can comment on anything here without being part of WordPress or anything like that. And its nice to know I'm being read sometimes ]
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Tags: politics
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