• Touchstone Archives: Baby Pew Sitters -
  “Worship is not simply a rational, intellectual exercise appealing to the hearing and understanding of adults. Nor is it a postmodern, emotional, narrative experience that, well, also appeals to adults.It is an encounter with the Triune God, which does not depend upon our own mental faculties (or lack thereof) or upon our emotional backgrounds, baggage, or preferences. The Word of God works, despite our sin, despite our cognitive ability, despite our age and experience.”
• One-Issue Politics, One-Issue Marriage, and the Humane Society :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library -
  “No endorsement of any single issue qualifies a person to hold public office. Being pro-life does not make a person a good governor, mayor, or president. But there are numerous single issues that disqualify a person from public office. For example, any candidate who endorsed bribery as a form of government efficiency would be disqualified, no matter what his party or platform was. Or a person who endorsed corporate fraud (say under $50 million) would be disqualified no matter what else he endorsed. Or a person who said that no black people could hold office—on that single issue alone he would be unfit for office. Or a person who said that rape is only a misdemeanor—that single issue would end his political career. These examples could go on and on. Everybody knows a single issue that for them would disqualify a candidate for office.”
• Touchstone Archives: Tired of Life? -
  “There has been a steady campaign by some Christians who regard themselves as orthodox and conservative to persuade the rank and file of their Christian brothers and sisters to rethink their predictable support for political candidates who are pro-life. They bring other issues to the fore—war, torture, taxes, education, health care, and poverty—in an attempt to undermine the claim that conscientious Christians must always support pro-life candidates. They imply that such “single-issue” pro-life voting is unsophisticated, often in lockstep with the mostly uneducated “religious right,” and perhaps not even very moral in the long view.”
• The Corner on National Review Online -
  “The question is whether enough Americans understand what’s at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency? After all, it ensnared Adelman, Kmiec, Powell, Fried, and numerous others. And while America will certainly survive, it will do so, in many respects, as a different place.”

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• How We Became the United States of France – TIME – “In bailing out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, our government has basically turned America into the largest subsidized housing project in the world.”
• Congressional Leaders Stunned That Bernanke Finally Admits The Truth -
• Global Financial Seizures Continue, Gold Soars – “Welcome to the wonderful world of derivatives and 30 times leverage Mr. Bernanke. Not many can claim to threaten the world’s financial system. It took years of hard effort, but you, Greenspan and the Fed, in conjunction with fractional reserve lending, managed to pull it off. You and the Fed should be proud. Stand up and take a bow.”
• Delivery Method Affects Brain Response to Baby’s Cry – Well Blog – NYTimes.com -

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• The Thirsty Theologian: The “Wrong Calculation” of Church Marketing –
• Commentary: Keeping my distance from the Democrats – CNN.com –
• The Thirsty Theologian: What does the customer want? –
• The Thirsty Theologian: Necessary Difficulty –

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• Beijing’s Olympic Village Wins LEED Gold Status – Other green features of the development include use of solar photovoltaic power and solar thermal to provide lighting and hot water for the community. Drought-resistant native plants make up more than 90 percent of the landscaping, and irrigation systems in the complex use collected rainwater. Parks and green open space reduce stormwater runoff throughout the development, and vegetated green roofs on more than 60 percent of the rooftops also capture runoff from storms.
• Did Big Plastic Pay Off The FDA??? –
• The Thirsty Theologian: The Cost of “Readability” –
• The Thirsty Theologian: Dumbing Down the Bible –
• The Thirsty Theologian: They could have said it that way . . . –

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• Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache – What’s the Angle? –
• Plastic Bag Facts –
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody – "And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year."
• Groups to pray for lower prices at gas stations – I don't know where to begin with this one, except to say this speaks volumes about the state of the church in this country.
• Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading? – Series – NYTimes.com – “What we are losing in this country and presumably around the world is the sustained, focused, linear attention developed by reading,”

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• 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas – 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas – TIME –
• Shareholders turn to sharecropping – International Herald Tribune – Decentralized food production and delivery is an answer to the insecure and unsafe, centralized and in many instances irresponsible production practices of the US.
• SciGuy: Is “black hole” a racially insensitive term? –
• Obama’s frequent regrets may make us sorry | ajc.com –

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• The Fraud of the Great Moderation – Like a lot of other activities in American life these days, agribusiness is unreformable along its current lines. It will take a convulsion to change it, and in that convulsion it will be dragged kicking-and-screaming into a new reality. As that occurs, the U.S. public will have to contend with more than just higher taco chip prices.
• US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak – Yahoo! News – Those with gardens most likely have an abundance of fresh and safe tomatoes. How about you?
• Life on the fringes of U.S. suburbia becomes untenable with rising gas costs – International Herald Tribune -
• Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her – “I don’t want to move. I don’t need the money. Money doesn’t mean anything,” she told the Seattle P-I in October.

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• The Deliberate Agrarian: Industrial Providers: Understanding the Oligopoly -
• Suicidal Spending – [perotcharts.com] – Get some hard facts on the real challenges facing our government.
• Don Carson Talks About Culture – Reformation21 -
• Story Time by Andrew Klavan, City Journal Spring 2008 – Where is the frontline of the so-called ‘Culture War’?

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• Some US farms outsourced to Mexico – Yahoo! Philippines News -
• The Challenge of Attention in the Digital Age – There comes a day when we must become accountable for our own learning process. What is the point of neurotically skipping along the surface when all the beauty lies below? Learning is an act of creativity, not mind-numbing, tv watching passive receptivity.
• Hard lemonade, hard price | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press – And if you think nothing so ludicrous could happen to your family, maybe you should pay a little less attention to who’s getting booted from “Dancing with the Stars” and a little more to how the agency responsible for protecting children is …
• Touchstone Archives: The Way We Weren’t – Many within the church look to the 1950s as an ideal to which to attain. This article reexamines what the church really was all about then, and how we can learn from it now.

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• YouTube – Twenty-First Century Waterfall –
• Texas Water Development Board –
• Convert DVD to Avi and Mpeg using bitRipper –
• Declarations – WSJ.com –

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