Rachel and I are currently listening to the “The Age of Henry VIII” from Great Courses. Rachel just finished coaching her second varsity soccer game. We are traveling to the Lexington area sometime in the upcoming weeks.
I have added a “Now Reading” plug-in from Roblog to Cultured Media: More than a sound byte. I’m almost [...]
Are you probably already read on Facebook, I brought a 2000 Honda Civic on Tuesday. I brought the Civic for close to the average price in area minus the cost of half an exhaust system and new brakes–which the seller and I both agreed would the car would need in the coming months. It’s dark [...]
I am making my blogs into networks that read each others posts which means the blogs are co-dependent and thus could cause each other to fault. I have been able to create a master feed of all my blogs at SMJdesign.com/feed/ If you are currently subscribing to Rachel and Stephen, and would like to subscribe [...]
Since when did a debate become a boxing match? Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk–and sometimes yell–about what they’ve learned in the last few years.
#333: The Center for Lessons Learned (1:15:27)
About halfway through is a “debate” between Saun Hannity and Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt [...]
An entertaining conversation with Ghoul Rocker, Alice Cooper on Fresh Air.
A humorous note about Terry Gross, the host of Fresh Air, “…Because of her short haircut and the number of guests from arts and entertainment (some of whom are gay), Gross said in her autobiography that she is sometimes asked whether she is gay or [...]
If only people spent as much time considering who they are marrying as they do choosing the hors-d’oeuvre at the reception, maybe more marriages would be successful.
In Rebecca Mead’s book, The Perfect Day, Mead focuses on the consumerism that has taken over the American wedding. She says that one clergy she interviewed said that [...]
The Game Show Network has launched The National Vocabulary Championship with a $40,000 grand prize. The contest measures word usage and comprehension. It’s like “American Idol, a spelling bee, and Jeopardy all rolled into one,” Martha Barnette, A Way With Words.
I personally haven’t thought about “gay marriage” in over a year, and just like the recent news about partial birth abortion made me reflect on the topic, anew I have new experiences to bring to this discussion since I am now married.
This is a rather old article/podcast (from 2004?) from Speaking of Faith, (which was [...]
I’m all about old stuff right now and most topics with some level of erudition. Church fathers, being set apart, tradition revitalization– maybe it’s the current cultural intercourse with Islam or just plain post-marriage/pre-kids existential thought.
Whatever the cause, I’m liking introspective old stuff right now. Its validity seems greater than my current add-God-to-my-Facebook informality with [...]
I thought it was appropriate to mention this, since here in Indianapolis, Indiana–it’s the “Year of Vonneget” I’m guessing that all the Q&A sessions with him that were scheduled have been cancelled.
In A Man Without a Country, he wrote that “if I shall ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof [...]