Motley Moose – Archive

The Boston Globe: The Big Picture, September.

I cannot urge you more strongly to visit the page.  

The “How to Take Back America” Conference geared up in St. Louis.  

One of the better articles on Ayn Rand and her implications to the development of the ideology over ideas set…  

And apparently PhDs can’t use Google…  

Mitch, John, you both need to stop being less than honest…

I caught this, this evening, and Chaplain Cook made me smile. I wholeheartedly suggest if you didn’t catch the piece, that you give it a listen. It’s exactly the kind of thing that I think we need to hear, and certainly more often from The People of the Book.  

Yes, I listen to the DR Show. It’s on when I head off to work, and I generally keep an ear out for news, and KJZZ in Phoenix has a lot of public affairs programming on during the morning.  

Today’s topic was Matthew B. Crawford’s book,”Shop Class As Soulcraft” discussing the value of the manual trades, and the loss that we have had socially with losing touch with using our hands more often.

I am a Buddhist, but I was also raised in the Deep South. And my Grandmother was a good KC Lady, and she made sure before dropping me in the middle of the Deep South, that I had a passing education in Christianity, and more than a couple of hours of Bible Study.  And I’m glad she did, because I have been fascinated by the connection of Christianity, and Judiasm, and in part Islam as well, as related faiths.  

Let’s get that out of the way right now. I’m not good people.  I have deliberately participated in the promulgation an Interwebs meme, and I have laughed heartily at it.  

Let’s get the Free Republic reaction to the Kenyan birth certificate that Orly Taitz claims to have been found.