Daily Archives: February 19, 2012

JL Sathre on 25 Things She Learned from Opening a Bookstore

In her Sunday Superlatives for today, Rachel Held Evans linked to a post by JL Sathre entitled 25 Things I Learned from Opening a Bookstore.  It’s definitely a funny read! I identified with Number 8: ” If you put free … Continue reading

Posted in Books, Life | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on JL Sathre on 25 Things She Learned from Opening a Bookstore

The World Below

At church this morning, the theme was Jesus’ transfiguration (Mark 9).  The pastor talked about how the disciples saw Jesus in a way that they had not seen him before, and he compared that to Madeleine Albright’s discovery that her … Continue reading

Posted in Bible, Church, Mark, Religion | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on The World Below

Nixon’s Civil Rights 19

One thing that stood out to me in my latest reading of Dean Kotlowski’s Nixon’s Civil Rights was how elements of Nixon’s civil rights policy were conservative.  I don’t mean rigidly libertarian, in the sense that Nixon opposed government intervention, … Continue reading

Posted in Black History Month, john birch society, Political Philosophy, Politics, Race | Comments Off on Nixon’s Civil Rights 19