Month: February 2004
No Further Comment
Posted on February 29, 2004 in Pointers War
From a Georgetown University special collection dedicated to British Recruitment Posters from World War I:
Martyrdom 2: Pyramids, Tophets, and a Ram in a Thicket
Posted on February 29, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism
The man or woman who lies down upon the altar is called a victim, from the Latin victima meaning an animal used for sacrifice. The word comes from an Indo-European root “weik” signifying that which is magic and holy.
This Time I Did Not Cheat
Posted on February 29, 2004 in Nortoniana Quizzes
Sound up the trumpets! Salute me! Stars and stripes (and no wars) forever!
Take the Leap Year’s Day
Posted on February 29, 2004 in Crosstalk Festivals
So, wanna share benefits?
Talking to A Christian About the Buddha
Posted on February 29, 2004 in Myths & Mysticism North Carolina
The Buddha taught the Golden Rule four hundred years before Christ lived.
Rule of Evidence?
Posted on February 28, 2004 in Quizzes
It’s Saturday and what worse way of spending the evening can you think of than spending it taking pointless quizzes, like this one which tells me that:
YOU ARE RULE 11!
You were designed to make sure that attorneys in
federal cases make reasonable inquiries into
fact or law before submitting pleadings,
motions, or other papers. You were a real
hardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legal
creativity from federal proceedings and
embarassed well-meaning but overzealous
attorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, when
you began allowing plaintiffs to make
allegations in their complaints that are likely
to have evidenciary support after discovery,
and when you allowed a 21 day period for the
erring attorney to withdraw the errant motion.
Sure, you keep everything running on the up and
up, but it’s clear that things would be a lot
more fun without you around.
Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You?
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Oh thanks a lot.
Larcenized from Lynn.
Passion and The Passion in Lake Forest
Posted on February 28, 2004 in Encounters Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism Pointers
Sitting in a restaurant talking about how the movie moved us is not putting ourselves in the position of Jesus, who suffered the tortures, carried the cross, and expired with his hands and feet pinned to its wood while slowly suffocating.
Martyrdom 1: The Martyrs of York and Edith Stein
Posted on February 28, 2004 in Martyrdom Series Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism
Which were the martyrs of York? The ones who killed themselves or the ones who were massacred by the crowd?
Leadership
Posted on February 27, 2004 in Citizenship Poetry
But of a good leader, When his work is done, His aim fulfilled, They will all say: "We did this ourselves."
Round and Round the Blogs We Go
Posted on February 27, 2004 in Roundup
A review of the week’s most compelling blogging: Mel Gibson’s film Passion has taken attention away from the suddenly boring Democratic primaries and the more crucial same sex marriage issue.
The Bible, Passion, and Jewish-Christian Relations
Posted on February 26, 2004 in College Hatred Myths & Mysticism Silicon Valley
We must ask “Why this Gospel? Why not one of the other three, none of which include the divisive line?
The Bottom of A Lake
Posted on February 26, 2004 in Weather
This morning, I could have been a catfish mucking around in the bottom of an asphalt lake, looking up at the inverted water sky.
