Nancy Guthrie on Glenn Beck
Nancy Guthrie provides some perspective on Glenn Beck’s rally in An Open Letter to My Pastors on Glenn Beck:
What prompts me to write is a statement Beck made on August 30 in an appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s show, when he cheerfully celebrated that “240 pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams on stage all locked arms saying the principles of America need to be taught from the pulpit.”
As I’ve continued to think about this statement, I’m moved to write today and say “thank you” for not being one of them.
Carl Trueman on Celebrities and Politics
Love the wit.
…student politics is all about sincere people getting superficially involved in very deep issues. If that applied to relatively articulate and intelligent students at Cambridge in 1985, it would seem to apply in spades to the barely articulate synthetic celebrities who now consider themselves to have the right to lecture the rest of us (via ghost written speeches made up of emotive blather) on how society should be organised. Personally, I blame Bono. That you have the ability to wear ridiculous sunglasses with confidence and the ability to write lyrics that sound cool but do not actually mean anything should not qualify you to have any more significance in the shaping of society than the single vote your nation’s constitution allows you come election time; and, in my opinion, as soon as rock music starts to take itself seriously, something crucial (I think it is called `fun’) in the genre dies. Whatever one thinks of Bush’s legacy, I trust that we can all agree that taking the U2 frontman seriously and giving him a platform was one of his least helpful actions during his tenure as US President.
via Goo Goo for Gaga? I Blame Bono (and Bush) – Reformation21 Blog.
Logos for Mac
I use Logos on Windows, and on my iPhone and iPad, and on the web (www.biblia.com). Now they’re launching a Mac version, and giving away a BUNCH of stuff. It’s an excellent resource for Bible study:
Logos Bible Software is giving away thousands of dollars of prizes to celebrate the launch of Logos Bible Software 4 Mac on October 1. Prizes include an iMac, a MacBook Pro, an iPad, an iPod Touch, and more than 100 other prizes!
They’re also having a special limited-time sale on their Mac and PC base packages and upgrades. Check it out!
Spotlight: Modern Mechanix
One of my new favorite blogs to read is Modern Mechanix, subtitled Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today. Basically they clip articles, ads, etc. from old magazines (a lot of science/technology magazines) which were either very prescient or very strange, curious, or otherwise interesting.
A typical sampling is an article from the February, 1947 issue of Science Illustrated, titled What I Want Next. It’s composed of reader submissions for inventions they want to see:
OUT, DAMNED SPOT! I would like to see a handy device, small enough to fit in a pocket or purse, that would remove any kind of spot from one’s clothing in a few seconds. This would certainly relieve the embarrassment of spilling gravy or other food on the “best dress” while dining out. With the device I have in mind, it would be possible to retire for a minute to the powder room and return with the dress as fresh and clean as before.
—Harriet Sherman, Atlanta, Ga.
LIGHT LITERATURE. I want next: books printed with luminous ink so I can read at night in barracks, after “lights out.”
—Pvt. Thomas Thornhill, Boca Raton, Fla.
EVERLASTING RIBBON. A typewriter ribbon that won’t wear out! This shouldn’t be so difficult as it sounds. Possibly a durable and effective ribbon could be made of glass, plastic, or steel. It should have a constantly renewable ink supply, which might be rolled on by a small absorbent roller attached to an ink cup at one side of the machine. Such a system would be much cleaner and quicker, and far less exasperating, than the present method of wrestling with a yard of smudgy tape. A few drops of ink would probably have to be added at intervals to the supply in the cup.
— Charles Feger, Chicago, Ill.
I WANT NEXT: Some way of tuning the radio in my car without taking my eye off the road or my hand off the wheel.—R. Strauss, New York, N. Y.
Reader Strauss doesn’t know it, but a steering-column radio control appeared on a few 1942 Chevrolets, will reappear on 1946 models. It turns the set on and off, controls volume, and—when pushed—gives push-button tuning of selected stations.—Ed.
via WHAT I WANT NEXT.
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