Hitchen’s Review

Bullying and shallow, God Is Not Great is a haute middlebrow tirade, a stale venting of outrage and ridicule. Beneath his Oxbridge talent at draping glibness in the raiment of erudition, Hitchens proves to be an amateur in philosophy, an illiterate in theology, and a dishonest student of history. Too belligerent to be nimble and too parochial to be generous, the once-captivating Hitchens demonstrates why he has forfeited any claim on our attention.
Commonweal

Ouch

Derek Webb

I’ve been listening to a bunch of songs on You Tube from his new album Stockholm Syndrome. Wow. I am glad he wrote it. I am sad that his production company gave him such a hard time with it. He sings and wears that black eye very well for us. Shame on those who don’t understand that he is stepping in for you and trying to repair what we’ve broken. Now I am going to have to buy this album. I can’t not. Go download the free track.

A little bit

There is a reason that Macleod’s Cube Grenades resonate with me. I don’t agree with every one of them. But I look at the world in much the same way. It does not make sense to me why, generally, people allow themselves to float. I used to float through life. I didn’t like who I was.

Life is different. As the lyrics go “pouring like an avalanche coming down a mountain”. A little part of me dies living any other way. Compromise and capitulation don’t have a place. A drive to experience all that life offers, and a drive to make a difference is what remains. The cube grenades remind me not to let anyone stop get in the way of that.