But you. You somehow know the truth. You take these phrases with no study at all, and you fill them with your theology, like someone filling helium balloons at a carnival. Then you hang a little basket below your balloons and float away, so delighted in the complex theological construct that you’ve put together. And from your elevated position you ( Read more... )

4 years ago, I believed we were on the same side, though perhaps tenuously so. I told a friend once that Focus on the Family was the carpetbombing Air Force and we were the Marines getting blown up by their bombs on the front lines. But at least they meant well ( Read more... )

( 3 weeks and two days update )

I arrived at about 7:30. The pockets of my trenchcoat were filled with books, granola bars, sunglasses, and a can of mountain dew. To my right were a handful of homeless kids, possibly waiting to see what all the excitement was in the park where they normally slept on the benches. They obviously didn't sleep there last night ( Read more... )

wassup 8 years later.

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( Open Letter to John McCain )

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I'm leaving for Indiana tomorrow, and probably won't be around LJ or other intertubes for about a week. Not sure how much I'll catch up when I get back, so if there's anything terribly important send me a message or something.

Didn't even make the final table. I wasn't getting cards, which wasn't the problem. The problem was getting put out by the worst player at the table on a hand I should have known enough to get away from (maybe). I bet three times the big blind with JQ-suited, leaving me with about six big blinds left and one caller. I was thinking I'd go all in ( Read more... )

...but the moutains never moved. I did ( Read more... )