GET FIREFOX!

THE PAWN SHOP
IS OPEN!

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures

Search Google cent's mindless ramblings

View blog authority

HT: Alert reader Will S
Seven Degrees of Facebook
No seriously --
The only reason
JT already linked it
Just to say it
You have to ask yourself ...
Imaginary
In case you ever need it
The Good Fight

January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008
November 2008

Here's the part where I try to avoid getting sued ...

As you undoubtedly noticed, I like comics. I wouldn't call myself a "fan boy" because I don't give a flying FOOM what they are worth. That said, almost all the images on my blog are scanned from comics I own, and it would be frankly impossible to tell you where each one comes from specifically.

Many are © and/or ® Marvel Comics Group, with all rights reserved.

Others are © and/or ® DC Comics, which is an arm of Time/Warner, and not only are all rights reserved but they are a little jealous about it, so if I get "the letter" from them, those images are just going to turn into blank spots until I configure out what to do about that.

There are also the occasional images from Valiant, Image, Defiant, and some indies which I'm not sure even have a name, and they are all also © and/or ®, all rights reserved.

All other images not covered by this disclaimer are the property of their respective owners, and if you are one of those people and you see your image on my blog, tell me what you want me to do about it and I will. No sense making people angry.

Hope that helps.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

HT: Alert reader Will S

The Telegraph UK reports that NASA/GISS can't get its reporting straight and dumps tons of ammo into the discussion as to whether or not Global Warming is, in fact, a crisis.

The article also speaks to arctic ice recovery in passing, so you can sleep better for not worrying about the polar bears.

(BTW, I archived the essay in PDF form because I'm tired of reading my own archives and finding that stories I linked to no longer exist at their source. Bleh.)

Labels: Global Warming

Friday, November 14, 2008

Seven Degrees of Facebook

From time to time I take a gander at potential "friends" on Facebook -- people who know people I "know" -- and all kinds of faces show up. Once Phil Johnson is your friend, there is no telling who will be in your list.

But tonight as I checked Facebook, I found this one:


Now, the killer is that I actually met Chris at a Munce trade show about three years ago when he sat on a panel about the Emerg* church with Doug Pagitt. And the real irony is that I was one of three retailers in the room that didn't come there to lynch him.

But here's what I'd like to know: which of my facebook friends actually knows Chris Seay? How'd he wind up on that page?

Labels: Facebook nation

No seriously --

You mean America is not "the church"?

What is Dr. David Jeremiah going to do?

HT: Richard @ BHT [shudder]

Labels: current events

The only reason

There's only one reason to post this video here:



It is the weirdest thing in my whole life to hear Ligon Duncan say my name as a member of teamPyro. I mean, if he had said, "um, Frank Turk. Pheh." it would make sense to me -- but for him to list me with Dan and Phil as a blogger he missed while we were on hiatus in October ... weird.

Labels: youTube

Thursday, November 13, 2008

JT already linked it

Carl Truman at his best.

BTW, if you want me to exposit on that essay, here's my take in 150 words or less:

The cultural and sociological issues at stake in both sides of the coin Truman examines here is exactly the reason Paul tells Timothy what the criteria for Elders and Overseers ought to be, and why those issues are the criteria he lists.

And if you need me to be a little more specific, this is why a 22-yr-old seminary graduate is not suited to be an elder or pastor. Pardon me for saying so, but we have an immature church because we let it be run by immature males who have been trapped into their roles as mostly-immature and faddishly young. If instead we looked to men who were first spiritually mature who are also successful fathers and husbands -- which it would be hard to do in our society before the age of 30 -- I think we'd find ourselves a church and not a fraternal order of, well, whatever.

Labels: local church, The Solution to Culture

Just to say it

Last night as I was installing iLife '08 on my Mac, I was watching CSPAN, and there was a panel of big thinkers there talking about the new New world order, and there was a fellow there who apparently was speaking for or otherwise representing the opinions of Al Gore.

I found it amusing that this young fellow spoke at length about the condition of the roads in America -- that somehow we needed to be able to effectively use our cars and trucks in order to keep America, well, however he thinks we should be keeping America.

I think I would have found him more credible if he had first explained how we are going to have both food and biofuels upon-which to run those cars and trucks. Just for the sake of giving us a fully-orbed picture of the world he and Al Gore are envisioning.

Labels: Global Warming

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

You have to ask yourself ...

... why a post-modern liberal feminist radical is the only one who really gets what just happened in the U.S. election.



Is it all really that complicated? Obama was more charismatic, and it turns our that's who he is in person when he's with his wife in private as well as when he stands before throngs. McCain was a mediocre, milquetoast, uninspiring, undistinctive non-conservative.



It wasn't a chapter from Jenkins & LaHaye: it was another election cycle, and the better politician won.Next.

Labels: Camille Pagalia fan club, election cycle