What with Netflix, on-demand TV, Hulu on the iPad, and videos on the smart phone, more and more people are staying at home for their entertainment, cocooning unto themselves. Even going to the movies is too communal and too much trouble for a lot of
What with Netflix, on-demand TV, Hulu on the iPad, and videos on the smart phone, more and more people are staying at home for their entertainment, cocooning unto themselves. Even going to the movies is too communal and too much trouble for a lot of
Pitcher Greg Maddux, fellow Atlanta rotation member Tom Glavine, and slugger Frank Thomas were voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Maddux won 355 games over a 23 year career. How did he do that? A rocket-fueled fastball? An over-arching curve ball? Not really. Maddux
Religion journalist John Allen has written a book entitled The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution. The Washington Post has an interesting interview with him about the phenomenon. Read excerpts after the jump. (more…)
Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the early days of the republic, was one of the most perceptive and prophetic observers of American culture. He’s often misinterpreted, though, which Daniel Schwindt tries to address in a fascinating essay about what the French nobleman was really saying
We talk about politics here at the Cranach blog, being careful to keep the two kingdoms distinguished, but we don’t do politicking, in the sense of agitating for one candidate or another. But I wanted to show you this campaign video as a virtuoso example
A court in Argentina ruled that an organgutan is a “non-human person,” and so is entitled to certain rights, including the right to freedom, meaning that the animal must be released from the zoo. (So an unborn child is a human being, but not a
This is the monument that the Satanists are trying to erect next to that of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma state capitol. It’s an idol of Baphomet. Note the effort to be child friendly. It really does allude to the Old Testament conflicts with
Zappos, the online shoe and apparel store, is adopting a new way to organize its workforce. There will be no managers and no corporate-style hierarchies. Instead, circles of employees will be organized around specific tasks. The company is attempting to replace “bureaucracy” with what it
The NSA is working on the development of a quantum computer that could foil all public encryption systems. The description of this technology, after the jump, combines weird physics, weird mathematics, and weird surveillance. (more…)
The rise of religion globally threatens human rights, according to British academic Stephen Hopgood in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post. After the jump, read his argument and consider the thoughts I raise. (more…)
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