Author: Tim

• Raymond Chandler: “…all this fairy gold…”

  No doubt I have learned a lot from Hollywood. Please do not think I completely despise it, because I don’t. The best proof of that may be that every producer I have worked for I would work for again, and every one of them, in spite of my tantrums, would be glad to have me.…

• Dougles Wilson: On Children In Church

  Pastor Wilson speaks for those of us who think that “seeker sensitive” started in “children’s church” and ends in Ipod Church, where every person just downloads their own church service and plays it into their ear buds. BLOG and MABLOG Many years ago we made the decision to disband our children’s church and nursery, and…

• Victor Davis Hanson: “…the West itself…vanished on the altar of therapy.”

  Works and Days » Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts The K-12 public education system is essentially wrecked. No longer can any professor expect an incoming college freshman to know what Okinawa, John Quincy Adams, Shiloh, the Parthenon, the Reformation, John Locke, the Second Amendment, or the Pythagorean Theorem is. An entire American culture, the West…

• Fatherlessness

  This generation of evangelicals really is fatherless and adrift. They know that, they ache over it, they cannot pretend not to know it, but they have no intention of turning back to their fathers. And that means repentance has not yet been given. —    Douglas Wilson, reviewing The Shack. Evangelicals have lost fatherhood, because they…

• “There is a brilliantly worded explanation for this.”

  CЯЦISIИG DOШИ ТНЕ СОДST OF THE HIGH БДЯБДЯEE “Lots of people are secure in their religious beliefs using rationale akin to, “There is a brilliantly worded explanation for this.” The problem is that mutually exclusive beliefs can all claim this. I Either every belief with such an explanation is truly a reasonable thing to believe,…

• Love, or die of loneliness.

• Liberalism: suicide by…greed

  Power Line Given that poorer citizens always outnumber the rich, political philosophers have long worried that government based on majority rule could lead to organized theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses. “If the majority distributes among itself the things of a minority, it is evident that it will destroy the city,” warns Aristotle.…

• John Milton on the government’s role in the bailout

  Instapundit.com “Chaos Umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray. By which he Reigns.”

• Who to marry: Esolen’s rules:

  Touchstone Magazine – Mere Comments: The Rules So then, whom could you marry? A long time ago we came up with something we called “Esolen’s Rules.” They’re only half facetious. But they are an attempt to get at the normal: 1. Don’t marry a woman who likes cats but does not like dogs.  You may…

• Drawing, by John Berger: “how has… [the face]… become the face it is”

  All creation is in the art of seeing – Times Online But now, because you asked me what drawing was to me . . . when you are drawing, anyway when you are drawing something which is alive, you are drawing the traces of what has happened to it until that moment at which you…