In any fiction series, isn’t it disconcerting when the central character suddenly starts behaving in a way he never did before? But they did that in one of our all-time favorite TV series, Columbo.
I have no idea whether this post will go up or not. The guy is supposed to come tomorrow to install the new modem. The old one we could install ourselves. The new one, forget about it.
Please, Mr. Computer! Can I please post my hymn today? It’s Gloria in Excelsis Deo, sung by Libera. You like that, don’t you?
Look how remorseful these dogs are, after they’ve done something really bad. Problem is, the dog’s conscience only kicks in after the fact. And we don’t know when a cat’s conscience becomes activated. Maybe never.
Our cat Buster used to get in a lot of trouble. His sister, Missy, hardly ever. But when she did, but when it was her rare turn to get rebuked, Buster showed unbounded glee. Did he love it!
They’re more like us than we care to admit.
(If you knew what I had to go through, with this computer, to get this beautiful, soul-nourishing, serenity-producing hymn posted here–!)
We have a hymn request from Joshua: Jesus Paid It All, by Fernando Ortega. If you’re unfamiliar with Christianity, pay attention to the lyrics; they’ll tell you much of what you need to know.
While their KKK robes were at the laundry
If you want idiocy, you’ll find it growing wild and free on any college campus. Princeton, for instance.
Two hundred Princeton faculty members have signed a petition demanding that university authorities confess/admit/acknowledge that “Racism thrives on campus” (https://diverseeducation.com/article/183161/).
What? The place is Racist even with you 200 jidrools running loose, in charge of educating da yout’? Doesn’t say much for your instruction, does it? I mean, really, with 200 of you yapping about “racial justice,” how come Princeton doesn’t have racial justice? Fell down on the job, did you?
One of the things Princeton can do to achieve Racial Justice, sez the petition, is “remove questions about misdemeanors and felony convictions from admissions applications,” because of course you should only be in jail for misgendering or climate change denial and locking you up for armed robbery or aggravated assault–well, that’s just Racist, and predatory policing.
Do they think they can’t fill their desired quota of Persons Of Color unless they bring in thugs and criminals, because there aren’t that many Persons Of Color who aren’t violent criminals? Dude! What about your own racism? I mean, your shockingly low expectations of Persons Of Color doesn’t suggest a terribly high opinion of them, does it?
Our colleges and universities grow more useless–and more toxic!–by the day.
Cut off the grants. Cut off the funds. We can’t afford them anymore. Cut off the money and let them die.
Our friend “Unknowable” sent us this: Harvard business professor Clay Christensen on the role of religious freedom in American democracy. It’s not a democracy, but for the time being we can give him a pass on that.
Why is America free? Simple. Because most people voluntarily choose to obey the law. Why do they choose to obey the law? Because that’s what they’ve been taught is good and right, as Christians and Jews. Take away their religion and they won’t believe that anymore, they won’t obey the law unless you make them.
And you can’t hire enough policemen for that.
Looks like what I’ve been saying about Science lately is, unhappily, true.
Scientific American–you remember that: it was a science magazine, once upon a time–has published a load of feminist crapola equating refusal to wear a face mask with refusal to wear a condom, both being an expression of–ooooh!–“masculine ideology” (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-condoms-of-the-face-why-some-men-refuse-to-wear-masks/).
And guess what? It’s all Donald Trump’s fault! Dig that Science. Yep, he’s one of those “white men with epic swagger”–men who are not white are apparently okay–and “the high priest of this ideology.” None o’ those “emasculating face condoms” for them!
Yatta-yatta.
There’s no integrity in Science anymore. The most sensitive instruments cannot detect it. You look for a “scientific,” informative article, and all you get is some ditzy feminist Trump-bashing. Oh. And white men are bashable, too. And it’s not Hate Speech if you just hate them!
What about all those women who refuse to wear face masks?
Shut up, the Scientist explained.
When you mix Science and politics, all you get is politics.
No, they don’t mean well. Not a bit.
What Hitler and Tojo couldn’t do to us with all their fleets and armies, the home-grown Far Left is doing with rioting and lies.
They mean to take down our country, they’re serious about it, and we’d better get serious about defending it. History shows me that it’s really not that hard to wreck a country. Building it up, that’s hard. Tearing it down, that’s easy.
Even college-educated idiots can do it.
I get edgy whenever I hear anyone speak of “our entertainment needs.” Stories around the campfire are one thing. Lavishly-produced celebrations of atheism are another.
I enjoy Primeval because Tim Haines’ special effects are the closest I’ll ever come to seeing live prehistoric animals. (How could he have left out Uintatherium? They always leave out Uintatherium!) But the price of admission is to let the screenwriters write out God.
We have to start winning back cultural ground for Christ’s Kingdom. We’ve let it go for too long.
Our friend Whiterabbit mentioned this in passing, the other day (or was it yesterday?), and then I couldn’t get the tune out of my mind.
When the Saints Go Marching In, most famously performed by Louis Armstrong, is, in fact, a hymn: and here are the lyrics to prove it. I’d like to credit this singer, but I don’t know who she is.