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Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Ammon Shea’s Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation is a collection of tiny essays on dozens and dozens of supposed grammar and usage errors in English. In every case, Shea finds a writer who decries the usage (like "hopefully" to mean "I hope that") then...
Cosmos
I'm a bit late to this, but I stole a few minutes this week from my non-TV endeavors (that would describes almost all my endeavors, actually) to catch the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reboot of Carl Sagan's famous science documentary, Cosmos. Neil deGrasse...
Kindle Deal Today Only
Today only, get a Kindle or Kindle Paperwhite (my recommendation, and what I personally use) for $20 off. A few tips: Get the version with special offers. Some of them are good and they save you money. If you never ever read in situations with low light, you don't...
Another Verse I Never Understood
Another verse I never understood, and I'm pretty excited about this one. I can't exactly blame the King James, because I don't think the KJV translators did anything wrong. And the ESV and NASB translators did pretty much the same thing. Here's the verse, Psalm 16:6:...
The Two Closets, Or Practicing Christian Liberty
In the very first month of this blog's existence, I posted some detailed sermon notes from a particularly helpful message (and that's saying something) that my beloved pastor, Mark Minnick, had preached to his congregation. With his permission, I turned those notes...
The Proper Order of Aesop’s Fables
For the last four years, the Bible and theology department at Wheaton College in Illinois has studied the biblical and theological literacy of incoming freshmen. These students are intellectually ambitious and spiritually passionate. They represent almost every...
Beautiful
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Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?*
Last week or so I was driving somewhere and listening to an ad on the radio, an ad that (like those Geico commercials [TV, 2007*] with the Pierce Brosnan look-a-like) was intentionally ironic, self-referential. That is, it made fun of itself, pretending to be a non-ad...
A Breathtaking, Truth-Suppressing, Tu Quoque Argument Tops the NY Times Most-Emailed List
The most e-mailed article at nytimes.com right now is opinion writer Thomas L. Friedman's "Why I Am Pro Life." Friedman, who comes from the left side of the opinion roster, argues that the right has hijacked the abortion debate by winning the title "pro life." He...