2009-06-19 08:13:43

We suck at dealing with these things. We need to hold the Iranian leaders accountable for their abuse and their lies.

tags: elections, Iran
categories: Thought

2009-05-19 21:44:40

I don’t have much to add to this other than context. This is sort of a response to some therapy I was in. We had a discussion on personalizing principles and how, even if the answer is right, if the answer isn’t personal, it isn’t helpful. I thought a little about how to meet my own needs — and how to get what I needed, I had to be a certain way. But in order to be that way, I had to have my needs met. Where do you start? This also is influenced by both my father and my father-in-law talking about the first sentence — that the gospel is at it’s core selfish. We live it because it makes us happy.

tags: identity, marriage, selfish
categories: Family, Myself, Thought

2009-02-07 12:17:09

Shia had no sense of time. She neither knew how long she had been lying in the mud nor how long she’d been walking. Having a companion made no difference to the situation. It seemed they walked forever, but the night didn’t grow any lighter. If anything, the forest seemed to be darker and there [...]

tags: angel, dryad, fantasy, Shia, Sylfania
categories: Thought

2006-05-29 16:46:21

Well, really, today is memorial day. But when I wrote this, it was Memorial Eve (if you can call it that).Originally penned some 8 years ago. It’ll probably look quite dated.

tags: government, Memorial Day
categories: Thought

2006-05-16 19:21:30

I’ve done much tech support in my time. This happened six years ago, but it’s pretty much representative of the job.

tags: stupid, tech
categories: Myself, Thought

2006-05-12 15:55:51

March, 2000 rant about Stupid People and PETA. And other redundancies.

tags: beer, Daily Universe, PETA
categories: Thought

2006-04-23 14:01:32

“I think we’re gonna get letters”

tags: christianity, differences, evolution
categories: Thought

13:34:35

Please don’t let me be misunderstood. But even if I am, let me be misunderstood in a way that leads to more understanding.

tags: literary criticism, reader response
categories: Lit, Thought, Writing

13:18:24

Wherein I have a financial and aesthetic crisis, resulting eventually in some epistimology.

tags: collection, possessions, supergirl
categories: Comics, Myself, Thought

2006-04-21 20:11:02

Or: Why Book Burners are Satanic.

This was written some years ago. I’m not sure exactly when. I suspect two or three. I’ve read and seen the other Harry Potter’s since then. My opinion is largely unchanged.

tags: book burning, fantasy, Harry Potter, religion
categories: Lit, Thought