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If you're ever in Wicker Park , I recommend the Alliance Bakery on Division Street, near Paulina. I believe I prefer the coffee there ov...

Last night I referred to an acquaintance's rantings about The Shack as indignorant . (No, I wasn't referring to Tiffany Eberle Krin...

I'm not one of those people who hang on John Piper's every word, but this is a great excerpt . Though I would have said, "It...

Several months ago, I linked to a long article suggesting massive changes in U.S. food policy. The basic idea is to shift subsidies from hi...

Liturgicostal.

The elevator today smelled like it had been hosed down with cologne. Very spicy cologne. I enjoyed seeing this line in an article about taxa...

In honor of Lincoln's 200th birthday, I will now attempt to type from memory the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago, our...

I don't think I ever got around to talking about The Shack on this blog. Oh well. Fortunately, I have smarter, more dedicated friends t...

I give you two holy texts profaned by contemporary business jargon for comedic effect. The first is Gen 1:1-8. (HT: Better Bibles Blog , Kou...

I recently read Till We Have Faces. (See J. L. S.'s reflections on it here .) For several days I've been meaning to read the myth o...

So, is it only in Bangalore that entrepreneurs make puns in the names of their establishments? Seriously? I would have thought it more wide...

Anatoly Liberman says that it's harder to pun in German than in French or English (scroll down to "English versus German"). Y...

Why do I watch the show that Fox puts on after American Idol? Why? The show they ran tonight made Lie to Me look amazing by comparison. On...