By Joel Hess –
Americans eat like animals
“Whoever is slothful will not roast his game.” Proverbs 12:27
What you do around food betrays what you think about yourself and the world, your weltanschauung as the Germans like to say. As Solomon observed above, the fool cannot wait to roast his catch. He just digs right in…like an animal. Don’t be a fool.
By Jeff Mallinson –
What do we mean when we call something good or bad, whether in aesthetics or ethics? These days, it seems that children tend to have a quicker and more genuine response. The rest of us these days, find locating goodness, truth, and beauty far more problematic.
By Jaime Nava –
In a plethora of video games armor is a thing. Many times it’s like the Medieval era with different pieces for the head, feet, hands, chest. There are of course other accessories too. In many games, although the armor’s properties are identical, it looks completely different between the male and female characters. Even worse, when it is worn by female characters it is often skimpy and revealing.
By Jaime Nava –
For you Windows users who click on the blue “E” to access the internet, you’d better get ready. At the middle of this month, if you’re not using Internet Explorer 11 (the latest version), then you won’t receive technical support from Micro$oft for your browser anymore. What kind of impact does this have?
By Scott Keith –
“The ritual of an Inklings was unvarying. When half a dozen or so had arrived, tea would be produced, and then when pipes were well alight Jack would say, ‘well has nobody got anything to read us?’ Out would come a manuscript, and we would settle down to sit in judgment upon it––real unbiased judgment, too, since we were no mutual admiration society: praise for good work was unstinted, but censure for bad work––or even not so good work––was often brutally frank. To read to the Inklings was a formidable ordeal.”
By Jeff Mallinson –
We celebrate Christmas around the time of the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. It is a time when our ancestors had to remind themselves of an age old promise that the light would not go out permanently, and that the light would soon return. The problem is,
By Paul Koch –
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
“In returning and rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
By Joel Hess –
I loved the latest Star Wars episode. Of course it’s hard to mess up something played on Imax in 3D. Even the Democrat presidential debate would be exciting.
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