Theodicius

Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

Necrophilia. Sigh.

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 9:55 am

Ann Althouse isn’t the only one that’s picked up on this story but I’ll single it out here just because she’s an easier target. (I would have simply added a comment to her blog, but she won’t let me). In a nutshell, three stupid kids thought it’d be fun to dig up a month-old corpse […]

Good-bye, FranklinCovey

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 12:30 pm

I’ve long been a fan of Steven Covey’s work. I’ll admit to being disappointed when he sold out to Franklin, now FranklinCovey, as the “First Things First” system he’d been detailing was a better approach. Still I understood the economics of it. I’ve been a user of Franklin (now FranklinCovey) planners for almost a decade, […]

Nope

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 11:02 am

Nan Lee writes about Barack Obama: With those vote-leaking drawbacks, Obama looks like he’s worth it and could possibly bring it home. Nope. Not gonna happen. You see, Barack Obama has one very obvious drawback: he’s a Senator. In races for the White House, Governors rule. In the last century, the only times a Governor […]

That’s what I’m talking about

Filed under: General,Theology— arlen@ 7:41 am

When I started this blog, one of the things I wanted to talk about was the relationship between Good and Evil. Not in any sterile, merely philosophical way. I wanted to talk about the effect they have on each other, the responses they call forth from each other. Ben Witherington, author of the Gospel Code, […]

You Know What’s Depressing?

Filed under: Books,General— arlen@ 8:40 am

A recent issue of The Writer contains an aricle by Brian Sousa about reading your writing aloud in order to find mistakes (an admirable practice, I might add, especially for checking dialog). I stopped reading when I came to: Perhaps they were noticieable only to me, but there were sentences, even whole paragraphs, that when […]

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