When George W. Bush won a disputed and controversial election in 2000, many on the left were quick to throw around words like "stolen," "rigged," and "illegitimate." Despite the fact that a media recount showed Bush widening his vote lead in Florida, to this day...
Tagged: My Two Cents
Another tragic murder, another political football
Yesterday, a right-wing veteran and white supremacist who hated President Obama, pushed the conspiracy theory that his birth certificate was forged, criticized the media for their attacks on George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, was influenced by Fox News and conservative talk radio, had ties...
My Two Cents #122 – Atheism: Unpopular, FSM, Dawkins, Violence & Christianity
Here’s some recent stuff: Why atheism is politically unpopular in the US (Economist) – “One problem is that they are hardly a cohesive group. Another issue is simply branding. ‘Atheist’ has an ugly ring in American ears and it merely defines what people are not....
My Two Cents: RSS Overload addition
As I said yesterday, too many good stories and posts, too little time. So you get the sheer joy of sneaking a peak at the type of stories that catch my attention in my RSS feeder. As I said yesterday, comment on anything you see...
No mere two cents, this, my friend, is a whole dollar
What happens when I get sick for a few days, get bogged down with loads of work, have a huge lock-in at church to plan for, preach a few sermons, try to apply for some seminary scholarships, and find my RSS feed has way too...
My Two Cents #119 – Global Warming – or not
Warmer planet can support glacial ice (UCSD) – New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events. The study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego provides strong...
My Two Cents #117 – Marriage and Family
Why wives should submit – Tim Challies has a nice list of "ten proofs that submission precedes the Fall and is part of God’s natural order", taken from Wayne Grudem’s Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth. Temporary Divorce for the children – couples in Spain are...
A little something for everyone
Most of these I wanted to write full posts on, but work is crazy so I haven’t had the chance. I don’t want to wait too long to get these up and out there, so here you go.
