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Sarx (σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh". This is the blog of a Southern Man (sojourning in Buffalo, NY) attempting to follow God in the way of Jesus.

NB: I'm currently on a "Blogging Sabbatical" to celebrate my 15th Year of online Journaling. While "Daily Tweets", the occasional review of a book, movie or eatery and Photo Blogging all continue, the daily posts have stopped until January 2011. All comments are currently in moderation.

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Disclaimer

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men. (Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

Economics

EAR WASHINGTON, I’m not very big on competition as a way of life. Capitalism, unrestrained, seems to me as an economic system of little guys feeding themselves to bigger guys. Socialism, on the other hand, while it seems to be the grass-roots economy preferred by the Gospel, is a failure on the level of the [...]

How is this God?

`You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest. OW IS This God? To-day’s RCL [...]

History Repeats

NE OF THE First acts of the newly created Federal Gov’t, at the end of the 18th Century, was to decide to pay off debt to businesses and wealthy land-holders incurred during the war against the British King. This they did by raising taxes on all other Americans – some of whom could ill afford [...]

Context is Everything

HE NASDAQ closed today up 737% compared to the crash of 87. Up 115% from the Correction in ’02. The DOW is up 63% from ’02 and 534% since ’87. What’s the problem? Most people keep wanting more money. More and more. And, in fact, they don’t invest, they gamble: they want their more and [...]