Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems was dedicated to Robert Creeley who was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, in1926. He entered Harvard in 1943 but left school to serve in the American Field Service in Burma and India dur...

You know, it's one thing to write a long post which everyone will agree with. It's another to get it published in the Christian Science Monitor. It's a whole 'nother thing to get it on the from page of Drudge: Congrats, Michael: that's the blogger's highest achievement award right there. secret tech...

Haloscan is eating comments. I dunno why. Be sure that if you are posting a mangum opus that you have composed off-line before you hit "send". secret technorati tags:religion God Jesus Christian...

... but we take risks here. OK: Be warned that this video lulls you into a pleasing little zone of coffee house mellowness, and then you get Rick Rolled, and then there's a sudden outburst of Chris Crocker set to mellow jazz guitar, and then it ends with the Power Ranger's theme. If you can not be o...

Let me say this: there is no greater human motivation than the need for other relationships. The question is only if we will make the right choices. And that's not only for those who are lonely: it is for those who read James 2 and want to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Wishing others no...

What if people really cared about people? Let me suggest that if Christians, without giving up one iota or one inflection mark of doctrine, actually loved other people besides their own families, the Japanese would be a lot more interested in replicating faith in Christ rather than building machines...

Today President Obama called cloning "profoundly wrong", which made me wonder about how that works out in the moral calculus. Ending the life of a baby to collect stem cell tissue is apparently not profoundly wrong, but cloning a baby -- or me for that matter -- to do anything with it (collect stem ...

OK -- I'm going to clean up the blogroll this week as Blogrolling.com has finally gotten its feet back under itself. If your blog is on the blogroll, and you're happy about it, do nothing. If you want to be added, go to the blogroll's homepage by clicking the "Scum of the Earth" graphic and follow t...

WSJ called Obama "Jimmy Carter". I said it first. They are obvioulsy reading in spite of my spotty posts. secret technorati tags:religion God Jesus Christian...

Some of you watch "professional" poker, I know, and some of those guys are ridiculous. OK: all of those guys are ridiculous, but some of them have a really solid poker face -- but many of them have a pathetic "tell". You can tell when they're bluffing. Turns out the Global Warming saints have a terr...