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“Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”

Every church needs one not wholly sanctified member to review their communications for missteps those innocent as doves may not notice.

Thank you, Andy. You’ve saved us all money on repairs and medical bills, and kept people from taking our money for crap that doesn’t work. We’re much obliged.

These ghouls act like they've discovered some novel secret: "Hey, guys, GUYS! Did you know that we can just kill people whenever we want?" Yes, you absolute idiot, that's ALWAYS been true. We just chose not to, for good and self-interested reasons which the entire world is about to learn yet again.

The Copy-editors In Chief All of these various spokespeople are not being tasked with clarifying America's aims in this war, but with supplying those aims -- with inventing them.

nice essay by @slacktivistfred.bsky.social

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Trump on January 22, 2020 when the CDC confirmed the first US covid case: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine.”

Terriers wouldn’t need any exposition or explanation or apology for the long gap of missing years. Just put an unkempt Donal Logue in a beat-up pickup waiting outside the prison from which Michael Raymond is being released. Or the other way around, either one would work.

For most shows, coming back 20 years later is challenging. The cast all LOOKS 20+ years older. The characters will need to have grown or changed over all that time, becoming *different* characters than the ones we remember. These wouldn’t be problems for Terriers.

What I’d much rather see would be a bunch of teasing Instagram videos showing Donal Logue knocking on the doors of Michael Raymond, Rockmond Dunbar, and Laura Allen.

Leave Firefly alone and bring back Terriers, you cowards.

(Or they become some kind of Anabaptisty Hauerwasian.)

But you’ll never have an influential jurist upholding the evangelical intellectual tradition & evangelical political philosophy because there isn’t any such thing to uphold.

Mark Noll addresses this in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

One short answer is that evangelical students who go into academia to study law and politics almost all wind up turning into Kuyperian Reformed types or Catholics or Niebuhrians because those are functioning schools of thought and evangelicalism has nothing like that to offer.

One short answer is that evangelical students who go into academia to study law and politics almost all wind up turning into Kuyperian Reformed types or Catholics or Niebuhrians because those are functioning schools of thought and evangelicalism has nothing like that to offer.

There's been lots made of a story involving "Armageddon briefings" in the US military. There's also lotsa skepticism around it, mainly bc it seems none of the first-hand sources spoke to reporters.

If you're a member of the military who HAS experienced these briefings, my Signal is: jackmjenkins.60

YouTube video by Paste Magazine Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022)

Happy to see some discussion of Tears for Fears and thus also hsppy to revisit this, which is lovely and subdued until the end, where it’s lovely and wonderfully not subdued.

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The future in Texas is bright and terrifying Democrats are once more dreaming of what could be. Republicans are dreaming of Rhodesia.

Get ready to hear a lot more about James Talarico.

Guy who gets disappeared to a black site off the win rate of his Kalshi account.

The gospel of Jubilee is beautiful. And the word itself is a beautiful word — it sounds as joyous and lovely and liberating as the necessary idea and ideal it expresses.

Say it out loud. It’s fun to say. Even if you don’t know what it means, you know just hearing it that it must be a Good Thing.

JUBILEE!

Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

The thing I am looking forward to tonight is the reporting from that Texas county where the GOP has pledged itself to hand-counting hard-copy ballots before midnight.

Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.

(This came up because “St. Elmo’s Fire” started playing on the store PA and I made a face. There are so many songs from 1985 that we should still be playing and singing today. This is not one of them.)

Was trying to explain the “Brat Pack” to some kids on my crew, and how that hype was part of a boomer freakout over the idea that the world might be making NEW young people. That was impossible and unthinkable. The young generation was people who were at Woodstock. And that would ALWAYS be true.

If you look closely on the right side of the screen, just past his left shoulder, there’s a small patch of bare, unadorned wall. No gold-colored adhesive features at all in that little space, even though there’s room for one more there. It’s just bare wall. What’s up with that?

(In that hastily recalled edition, a printer’s error omitted the word “not” from the phrase “thou shalt not commit adultery” in Exodus 20. In Texas this would be called the Paxton Bible.)

Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas' Bible-infused curriculum The curriculum in what is known as the “Bluebonnet” textbook is among Republican-led efforts in the U.S. to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms.

Texas is gonna wind up posting the Ten Commandments out of the “Wicked Bible” of 1631.

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Tilly Norwood broke out of rehab and got her sixth DUI after hitting a school bus.

This is a year old, but still.

My creditors have yet to acknowledge the 10% cap on interest rates the president decreed would take effect on January 20.

His own “L’Etat c’est moi” confusion/ambition makes him think that killing/abducting another country’s head of state means he has conquered that country. It’s one-dimensional chess — the idea that he wins if he takes out the other side’s king.

So now I guess we’re looking for the Iranian Delcy Rodriguez?