Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Day of Service
On Wednesday, Harding held its annual Day of Service to the Searcy community.
The original idea for the DoS was that the student body would take a day off from classes to do service projects but that has been amended to about half a day. But other than the fact that classes are no longer cancelled [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in day of service by ME
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
I Watched Nancy Grace Tonight And I Feel Like I Need a Hot Shower
And not just a regular hot shower either, but a hot shower with a scrub-brush and a can of industrial strength Bon-Ami cleanser. Nancy Grace gives tabloid journalism a bad name – and that’s no easy task. I want to burn my clothes and bury them in my neighbor’s backyard.
Tonight was the longest amount of [...]
18 Comments » - Posted in Church of Christ, Nancy Grace by ME
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Ten Things I’ve Learned Within the Last 48 Hours
My 17 year-old is fully capable of traveling long distances without me to places like Russellville, Arkansas to attend concerts by bands like Dashboard Confessional with his friends.
CNN’s Nancy Grace is an even bigger piece of work than I thought she was. It addition to being an exploiter of missing teenagers in Aruba she also [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in Chicago Cubs, Nancy Grace, Tom Delay by ME
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Campephilus principalis
One of the highlights of my brief career as a member of the 4-H Club in my hometown was winning a county medal in Ornithology.
Bird watching is not as big a category in 4-H as animal husbandry or turnip farming but I was willing to try anything that would not actually involve visiting a farm.
So [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Arkansas, woodpeckers by ME
Monday, March 27th, 2006
Activist Afghan Judge Frees Rahman
First the good news: The prayers that have been lifted up on behalf of Abdul Rahman have been answered.
Reports from Afghanistan and the Western media indicate that the former Muslim who converted to Christianity sixteen years ago will be released “on a technicality”. Under the 2004 Afghani constitution, Rahman faced the death penalty for [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan, courts by ME
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#21)
There is an Elrod Elementary School in Kalispell, Montana.
Students from Elrod Elementary eventually get to attend Flathead High School in Kalispell.
That figures.
No Comments » - Posted in Elrod, Montana, schools, the Apocalypse by ME
Friday, March 24th, 2006
Really Old Glory
I received my copy of the Harding Class Schedule for the fall semester in my mailbox yesterday.
It’s always reassuring to see the schedule for the first time — it’s one indication that I’ll still have a job this August. It’s almost as good as getting my contract in the mail.
The first two things I do [...]
16 Comments » - Posted in college, flags by ME
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
The People v. Abdul Rahman
I like to think that when the Bush administration touts the success of US efforts to expand democracy and liberty in the Middle East that they are serious about it.
But what kind of democracy has a constitution that empowers the state to execute somebody because of their religious faith?
I ask this question because of the [...]
13 Comments » - Posted in Afghanistan, religion by ME
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
The Imperfect Crime
I’m gradually working my way back into teaching mode after Spring Break so I’ve decided to use today’s post to confess to my first crime.
I had confessed to this crime earlier at Pax Fellowship, but I need to do it here as well. I’m going to think of it as Spring Cleaning.My short-lived crime spree [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in confessions, crime, education by ME
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Get Back to Work
I’ve found that one of the frustrating things about middle-age is that I can still do a lot of things I used to do when I was 21.
Like push wheelbarrows up mountains of garbage and lift refrigerators over my head.
But it now takes me three times as long to recover from them. That’s one way [...]
