Good Words
A bit of promotional stuff here. Come do this if you can: Poetry and Truth You’ll be glad you did.
Exploring evangelical attitudes toward unwed pregnancy
This in-depth article by Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker explores Bristol's pregnancy and yet another aspect of America's major cultural rift: Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but…
The Naming of Things
I'd like to do a bit here on language. Primarily on how we have seen it distorted over the last few decades. According to George Lakoff and Geoff Nunberg, the Right has seized the rhetorical high-ground and driven Liberals into defensive postures by altering or subverting the meanings of certain…
The Day in 100 Seconds
This video is compliments of Talking Points Memo: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZky7S31X8&eurl=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/[/youtube]
Macro Oregon: one final walk through Washington Park
My conference wrapped up today. Tomorrow, they would have had to drag me onto a plane back to St. Louis, except that I miss my family so much. I'll leave willingly, but with some sadness. I've also fallen hopelessly in love with Oregon. Lots of bicycle commuters. Lots of free…