I saw these two again this morning, in the same situation as before.
Tag Archives: politics
Weekend plans
Reality check: “Dear Democrats, liberals and the like”
Sunday
I followed the plan I wrote about yesterday. Continue reading
Political Speeches
We have heard a lot about these in the last two weeks, even if we have managed to avoid actually listening to them. I particularly enjoyed this comment by Erik Hanberg wrote, with full disclosure of his own position :-)>
One for the history books!
Via Bad Astronomy.
Not like the demonstrations and arrests of my youth…
Everybody has access to the Ramsey County Jail Bookings, in a searchable database.
Sermons and politics
It is not proper for a preacher to explicitly say “Vote for X” in a sermon. That could lead to serious trouble with IRS. Our clergy at St. Mary’s are very careful about not crossing this line. However, after listening to Moses as Union Organizer (mp3 link) this morning I thought of my old math textbooks: Identifying X was “a trivial exercise for the reader” (listener). I am OK with this.
The Limits of Linguistics
“….we are generally powerless to interpret reincarnationspeak and yogababble.”
Via Ann Althouse