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HIS IS What happens in America: shopping is confused with religion. Keeping Christmas Shopping Safe for Christians I want to note that it’s getting confused with *three* religions in this series of quoted comments at Jewschool.
Evangelicals are not the only folks getting sucked in by this logic: the false idea that *anything* a [...]

In response to the new FTC rulez for amateur and celebrity bloggers/tweeters (these rulez rock, btw) Yer Host is most saddened to report that he currently receives no freebies for review. This situation could happily be modified:
I would love to review some books (religious – from orthodox religion to Joseph Campbell-esgue discussions of [...]

HE WAY WE Do food in the USA is certainly going to kill us. In the capitalist drive for cheap market dominance (and our failure to resist it because of our addiction to cheap, fast and easy stuff) we’re setting America up for easy destruction. Do you see the problem with this sentence?
One major [...]

MASH!

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Wow. The movie was in 1970. From 1972 through 1983, this was TV. From First Grade through Freshman year in College, this was media at its best (IMNSHO). We continued to watch it in syndication through my time in college and forward. For years I had a small, 15″ [...]

ERE ARE My new 100% union made, fair trade "No Sweat" sneakers. They are very comfortable and designed to make the American shopper feel good about his consumerism. When Chuck Taylor shoes were made in the USA by union workers they cost $30. Now they are made in china by slave labour [...]

Good thoughts for Lent… Spoiled Idiots… all of us.

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Nate, John, Brodie and Yer Host… yes those are matching t-shirts. We got ‘em at Old Navy for like $1.00 each.

HE Following Quote from Metropolitan Jonah sets the stage for my thoughts today. It’s from his Pastoral Letter for the Sanctity of Life Sunday and I think it ties all the issues together nicely in a handful of sentences:
Most of all, we must restore the family: not just the nuclear family, but the multi-generational [...]

NDREW Sullivan took me down an unexpected course of cultural criticism today.
In his first post, The Tao Of Guitar Hero he points us to an article by Rob Horning:
For the cost of an Xbox and the Guitar Hero game, you can get yourself a pretty good guitar. I can’t help but feel that [...]

The worship space was brightly lit, and row upon row of devotees stood at wooden benches gazing in adoration at white machines of varying shapes and sizes. A glass staircase lead upwards, where further rows of worshippers were doing much the same as those downstairs. People wearing bright shirts stood behind other desks, and names [...]