Today is the day, in case you’ve forgotten, that our income taxes are due. People in New Testament times disliked paying taxes as much as we do, as evidenced in the low esteem placed on tax collectors. Nevertheless, one of the surprisingly few civic obligations
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” Albert Einstein. He also said: [on filing for tax returns] “This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.”
Stadler and Cincinnatus sparked an interesting debate last week in their comments on the gay marriage in Iowa post on the time-honored question of which is more virtuous, city life or country life? I want to do some more with the specific comments, but the
The early buzz on the upcoming Star Trek movie, which has recast James T. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, et al., as young Star Fleet officers just starting out, is very positive. Can you wait? Or now that you have a life, do you not care?
Emma comments on a post from over a year ago: The pro-Anorexia movement. Her comments and request are unlikely to be noticed on that old post, so I’ll repeat them here: I am currently collecting information for a website project for university. I am writing
Rick Warren is apparently changing his tune about opposing gay marriage: Evangelical leaders say they are bewildered and stunned by the Rev. Rick Warren’s apparent turnaround on gay marriage after the famous California pastor said earlier this week that he was not a proponent of
We’ve been in St. Louis over the Easter weekend. Our granddaughter Mary May Hensley was baptized during the Easter vigil. Our whole family got together for the occasion, all of our (grown) children and their families, my parents, my sister and my nephew, our son-in-law’s
Well, that was quite a swashbuckling saga with Captain Phillips giving himself up to the Somali pirates to save his crew; the crew refusing to surrender their ship and overpowering one of the pirates; the U.S. Navy coming to the rescue; the SEALS sharpshooters on
Archeologists have compared bones from a Roman catacomb that was used for the burial of Christians to bones from other catacombs. The finding? The early Christians ate a lot of freshwater fish, whereas most Romans didn’t. Comparing the catacomb results with those from other sites
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