Rhetorical Outbursts

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, was on C-Span last week. The interview was fascinating. Wales explains how the site functions with a vibrant community of all-volunteer writers and editors massively collaborating to create this extremely useful encyclopedia. Anyone can write an article. Anyone can edit an article.

I know, it sounds […]

I really enjoyed this post by Patrick Mead at Tent Pegs about new interest in old music:

For the first 150 years of the Restoration Movement, our songs were relics and reflections of the old songs brought to us by our British forebears and kept sacred — while transformed — in the […]

Mick Wright links to a letter-to-the editor from a senior at Harding University on the Ann Coulter brouhaha, which includes a reference to the “blogging alumni who so adamantly opposed” her. The author, Zachary Cheatam, points to another example of a lefty who was an American Studies Institute (ASI) speaker at Harding: Wesley Clark. […]

Tomorrow is the deadline for Los Angeles residents to sign a petition in support of a ballot initiative to restore the original city seal. It was changed earlier this year under threats of litigation by the ACLU. Why? Because 0.15% of the area of the seal was besmirched by a cross representing the […]

Wolf Blitzer’s interview of CNN-founder Ted Turner this week was unbelievable. In his comments about North Korea, Turner demonstrated a remarkable combination of ignorance, naivete, and above all, narcissism. The net effect of his performance was to dismiss the horrific human suffering that plagues the North Korean people:

And I was really […]

I’m so tired of reading about “post-modernism,” at least from post-modernists. Chuck Colson’s exchange of open letters with Brian McLaren was interesting though. You can read the whole thing on McLaren’s website. I ran across it a few months before I started blogging, but it is so memorable that I wanted to […]

Mick Wright has another great post on Fishkite tweaking the religious left. After commenting on Jim Wallis and Sojourners and others, he turns to the small-fry:

Also: Kendallball explains how, in addition to simply loving the sinner and hating the sin, God may in fact “endorse and approve” of the homosexual lifestyle.

Not surprising, […]

Though shamefully under-reported, the elections in Afghanistan on Sunday were apparently a relative success. The first legislative elections there in 36 years were barely noticed here with all the focus on Katrina response and the Roberts nomination. While some here are complaining that hurricanes don’t practice affirmative action and Republicans don’t nominate liberals […]

This can’t be for real, but an article on Yahoo! “Entertainment News and Gossip” says that:

Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they’ve dubbed a “chaos cloud” that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars — and it’s headed directly toward Earth! * * * […]

Conservatives love Christopher Hitchens because Christopher Hitchens loves America. He is one of the few remaining leftists whose thought is not dominated by the fundamental assumption that the United States is evil. More than that, he actually believes his adopted homeland is one of the greatest forces for good in the world. He is […]