Turn Right! Turn Right! Turn Right!
I once sold a cartoon to a magazine for $20. In a vain attempt to regain what amounted to a $120/hr job, I write down cartoon ideas regularly. Here was my latest, but so far I had thought it too cheeky to do anything with: Ha ha! Well, if you steal this idea, don't credit me, because truth is stranger than fiction.
Books for Sale!
UPDATE: Some lots have sold. I got married and I have some extra books I want to sell. Here they are. Brand new, hardcover. $10. Brand new, shrink-wrapped, $22. A must-have. All the books on CD read by well-known actors plus a softcover single-volume edition of the Chronicles. A minimum of $30 at Amazon. Please enrich your life by buying this! Brand new softcover single-volume edition of the Chronicles. $10. Ranked third at the amazing bestcommentaries.com. I'm only selling it because I bought...
NKJV Study Bible on Genesis 1:1–2
I'm reviewing the NKJV Study Bible right now, and here it is on Genesis 1:1–2: 1:1 ....Even though the word for God is plural, the verb for created is singular. It means "to fashion anew." This oft-used word in the Bible always has God as its subject. Here, it means that God renewed what was in a chaotic state. God changed chaos into cosmos, disorder into order, emptiness into fulness.... 1:2 The two words without form . . . void express one concept—chaos. The earth had been reduced to this...
Gaffin Quoting Ridderbos on the History of Pauline Theology
A clever comment by Herman Ridderbos, quoted in Richard Gaffin's By Faith, Not By Sight, a book I bought in Libronix, transferred easily to my Kindle, and am reading currently: Herman Ridderbos has observed, taking in the history of interpretation of Paul in its entirety, that Paul’s own account of the course of his ministry in 2 Corinthians 11:23–26 provides an apt description of that history, “beaten times without number, often in danger of death … shipwrecked three times … in danger from my...
They Is Okay
I don't have the wherewithal at the moment to do a diachronic* linguistic usage survey of the word "they." (Or rather, like most bloggers, I lack the willingness to let such a survey delay rushing this blog into, eh, print.) But I am qualified to do a synchronic* survey, because my job is to read contemporary English for most of the day. So I'm happy to agree with the two linguists filling in for William Safire at his New York Times column, because they've added historical weight to my case...