Posts from the ‘Potpourri for 100, Alex’ Category
As I’ve been saying for months now, and Greg has been insisting for years, it was time to chuck out the old This Side of Glory and embrace the now. I think I may miss a little of the simplicity of that old theme, but I won’t miss the bother that came with trying to [...]
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Another of those spates where I haven’t been doing much with the blog, and the need to “upgrade or quit” makes me wonder for the umpteenth time why I do this.
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Having deleted the SAME spam from the SAME parties over and over and over, I would like to make an announcement on behalf of all normal people: ATTENTION: All guys who are in the market to be “enhanced” and “enlarged” – would you please stop dawdling and get on with taking these pills (all-natural or [...]
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Well, phooey. Greg’s been after me for some time to redesign the blog, because the version of WordPress I’m using here is getting outdated, and also because he can think of all kinds of ways the blog would benefit from a new look. I’ve been resisting, because I’m capable of getting genuinely fond of anything [...]
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Woo hoo! The blog just passed the five-year mark! Virtual cake all around, some fun with stats and some best-of stuff.
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From “Daily Lives” today … The hearts of other sinners have been softened by discussions with pious people. You, too, go and have a discussion. If you hear word after word of discussion, will not one word strike you that will be unto the separation of soul and spirit, according to the thoughts of the [...]
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I’m not sure, but this may have been the longest time I’ve gone between blog entries. I’m kind of hoping that enough people subscribe to RSS feed that they haven’t been dropping by only to find nothing new time after time. But what can you do? Like most of the Ortho-bloggers I read, blogging is [...]
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I’m going on an Eastern Europe cruise in late May, which goes to some places I don’t know much about. So my question to all you international types out there is, is there anything in the following cities that a person really, really doesn’t want to miss? Dublin, Ireland Barrow, England Rosyth (Edinburgh), Scotland Copenhagen, [...]
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If you don’t get out in the blogosphere much anymore, you might be missing it, but there’s a bit of a hullabulloo going on about a new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) came out. The numbers aren’t good for any Christian, but they’re probably the most depressing for Evangelicals. For instance(*): Since 1990, the last [...]
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This is an update to the last post. I was a little too flip, and I wanted to be clear about stem cell research. There IS promise in stem cell research, but there’s also a GOOD alternative to destroying embryos.
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