One of the worst weeks of my life, the psychic toll probably even worse than the physical. Don't know how I managed to get even this little bit done. Don't expect anything better for next week, or have any idea when or if I'm ever going to turn this around. It's just that when your velocity drops to...

Chris Anderson has written two very helpful articles on lust. I found them to be refreshingly practical and spiritually uplifting. In Part One he highly recommends Covenant Eyes. The leadership at our church has CE on our computers, and I agree with Chris Anderson about its effectiveness. Both artic...

Folks, i'm feeling like crap tonight as i've been struck down by the lurghi, so i'll skip the usual preamble and just let the music do the talking if i may.Normal wordy service should return next week after i shake this damned cold.Up first, Bristol based band JAGUAR elevated themselves to NWoBHM no...

THE EVIDENCE IS THAT THE OCEAN IS COOLING, NOT WARMING An email below from Craig Loehle [Craigloehl@aol.com] Hansen's theory that CO2 forcing is hiding in the oceans can't be true if the oceans are cooling, as my latest paper shows (Energy & Environment Vol. 20, No. 1&2, 2009). Excerpt below: Coolin...

Today there is a radical resurgence of Calvinistic, Reformed thought. A simple visit to a Christian bookseller or a careful listen to Christian radio reveals that dispensational, Baptist positions are becoming increasingly rare ~ Chuck Phelps, Maranatha Baptist Bible College This implies, of course,...

YouTube. We’re reasonably certain that celebrated twelve-tone composer Milton Babbitt’s music has never accompanied beautiful dancing girls before.  Babbitt turns 93 in May; we hope he sees this video and likes it...! The track is from our latest album For All I Care .  (This is the ...

District 14's Grand National Team weekend was a great success.  Thirty-five teams were in play on Saturday, culminating in four winners on Sunday from Superflight and Flights A, B, and C.  These teams will go on to the Washington D.C. NABC in July, earning the right to compete ...

Highlighted by solo home runs off the bats of Ryan Sweeney, Landon Powell, Travis Buck and Josh Donaldson, doubling their spring total as a team, the Oakland A's scored 11 consecutive runs en route to a 15-6 rout against the San Diego Padres in Peoria, AZ. A day after getting 16 hits, the A's did th...

March madness is upon us once again. Not the kind that involves a hoop and a ball, I’m talking about the Austin version of madness that is SXSW. Every year in the middle of March tens of thousands of musicians and fans settle upon the Longhorn town to celebrate the best of American music festi...

This is a piece I wrote for the Daily Kos a couple of weeks ago. I'm posting it here because we'd been discussing the question: can she ever be defeated, or is it time to throw in the towel and hope for re-districting? Every so often I write a piece puffing our blog on the Kos, hoping to attract dri...