There’s a Slate article trending on Twitter this morning called “America is a Sham.” It’s full of a lot of words I’d rather not use on this blog, and is a jumble of both interesting insights and, I think, rather naïve economic aspirations. Yes, when the coronavirus is over, we should be happy that we were able to see that the number of ounces of liquid you carry on to an airplane in no way makes any of the people... Read more
I’m blogging at Stand Firm today… ********************************************************************** Well, I think it’s a law that we have to blog about Coronavirus now. And who am I to disobey, so, here we go. One First of all, here are some other people who have been writing interesting things. Cat, for one, and this person who has good advice for teachers who suddenly have to venture into the online world. Seriously, read them both. All very sensible. Two And here’s a guy who thinks he’s Jesus. I feel... Read more
Sometime as I was scrolling in my usual languid way through the internet yesterday, I happened to see one or two brief clips of Contagion—that now rather old movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon…is this what she’s referring to in the opening of goop when she realized she had to have some other calling than making out with him on screen? I’m not willing to watch the movie to find out, but maybe everything really does come full circle…... Read more
I googled “twee” and this was the first thing that came up. Well, this is a fine time to be alive. Yesterday I didn’t know, but now I have discovered a new trend in Self-Care—Cottagecore. (New York Times alert): It’s a Holly Hobbie illustration come to life, consisting of a coterie of young people, mostly in their teens and early 20s, who congregate online to swap bread baking recipes and photos of their foraged mushroom hauls, stare at pictures of... Read more
Well, I’ve trolled the internet in vain for a whole ten minutes looking for anything that’s not coronavirus and it all culminated in this—Go! Run! Hide! It “might” be the end of the world, or it might not, of course we don’t know. All the panic and mayhem, incidentally, did come to my local Aldi where everyone rushed in a bought all the loo paper and Clorox wipes but Not the soap, which seemed weird to me, but what do... Read more
Oh look, we woke up at the usual time but it’s an hour later because of some terrible government conspiracy to destroy our happiness. Then we did a podcast–that you can’t listen to because it didn’t record–about what bothers me about International Women’s Day, the pinky promise of Elizabeth Warren, how we are–by nature–wrong in ourselves, how Christ himself is the Imago Dei, and how funny it is that Bethel shut down their Healing Rooms because of the Coronavirus. It... Read more
Is it already day? That’s too bad. I have two treats this morning. First is a little post over at SF: Between International Women’s Day and Daylight Savings Time we’re all in a pickle. What can God possibly do for us? Let us consider the matter, and what may be done. A quick glance at the history of IWD on Wikipedia told me a lot more than I wanted to know. It was invented by the Socialist Party of America in 1909,... Read more
Is it really Friday? Wow. I didn’t think this day would ever come. Don’t be too happy, though, because this weekend the clocks get moved, if you live in an insane country like I do. One I’ve been watching that clip of Elizabeth Warren, on the edge of tears, telling all the “women and little girls” that we just have to wait four more years. It’ll be hard, but we’ll get there. Not sure what it is about the spectacle... Read more
I’m over at Stand Firm this morning. Enjoy! ************************************************************************************************** Here is something old that actually feels kind of quaint in this new age. A year ago, someone was really upset about homophobia, the definition of which included anybody who wasn’t happy about his lifestyle. He rehearses the trauma of being opposed by Kim Davis and then says this: This little story brings me to my larger point: using terms like “religious freedom” and “difference of opinion” to make one’s homophobia seem... Read more
Someone in my house appears to be hacking up a lung. Not sure what that is about—hopefully not the apocalypse—I should probably go find out. But before I do that, go check out this fantastic and long article. I found it as I was wandering around reading about very tiny purses yesterday. There are so many great passages, let me just pull a couple. It’s about “millennial pink” and the overall “millennial aesthetic.” This: Sometimes the hipster flirted with racism... Read more
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