pentecostalization
In honor of the Easter weekend I suppose, the Sunday Magazine lead article in the NyTimes this week was about the immigration of African forms of Christianity into America, particularly of a Pentecostal variety....
Daily Archive: April 14, 2009
I’ll Take Getting the Econ Crisis Wrong for $2,000 Alex
Sorry Mr. President this just isn’t right: The heart of this financial crisis is that too many banks and other financial institutions simply stopped lending money. Errr. The correct answer is “What is a...
Call to Arms
I think conservatives are justifiably upset by the Department of Homeland Security’s recent report on right-wing domestic terrorism. It’s not that I find the idea of violent extremism totally implausible (I don’t!), I just...
tech bleg
So I’m the kind to always build my own PCs from parts, cause I hate paying a premium, tend to build higher-end systems (where the economic advantage is highest), don’t want to pay for...
There’s GAAP and then there’s GAAAP
When I was in my graduate finance program many years ago, the accounting professors told us that the meaning of the acronym GAAP was Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. When I took my class in...
quote of the day
It must have been caused by a gay marriage in Vermont! ~commenter jaycbird over at Dreher’s digs, on why Mel Gibson’s wife is filing for divorce.
Correctly Political: Tea and Sympathy for the Devil You Know
“Children’s Tea Party,” Morton H. B. Bly, 1919 by jfxgillis R.S.V.P. Wednesday, April 15th, Tax Day (reminder to self: file tax return or else), is also the day designated by grass-roots conservatives as a...
