Sticks and Stones May Wake My Bones

April 11, 2009

3:59AM.  That’s the time that I heard retching, then licking coming from the dog bed next to my side of the bed.  I hoped I dreamed it.  But a few minutes later, I was armed with Woolite pet-mess cleaner and a roll of paper towels.  The only thing left once I got back upstairs was [...]

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On Examinations and Evil

April 10, 2009

Two days ago, I took the IBHRE Certification Exam for Competency in Cardiac Electrophysiology for the Allied Professional.  I know.  You’re already asleep.
It’s a required test for my current day job: Lead Clinical Technologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center Electrophysiology Lab.
Wake up.
The exam was evil.  I’ve always been a really good test taker.  [...]

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Where Am I?

March 13, 2009

After remaking this blog and vowing to return to it, I’ve managed a few links, a beer review, and a Fred post, and that’s about it.  I didn’t get any less busy after finishing Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds. I got more busy.  I took on a little extra work with [...]

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I’m in the News

February 28, 2009

The Batavia Daily News ran an article today based on an interview I gave to Tom Rivers a couple weeks ago.  My understanding is that it will only be online for a couple weeks, so give it a read!
Special thanks to Tom for the interview and the nicely written article, and to John Granger for [...]

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“Fed Up”

February 11, 2009

I think I’m going to have to get a copy of Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s new book, Meltdown. His recent article for American Conservative is excellent stuff on our economy, what got us into this mess, and why the stimulus package is more of the same.
Under fiat money, currency without commodity backing, the central bank [...]

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Summarizing Obama’s Press Conference

February 10, 2009

President Obama’s press conference last night was a disaster.  He came out swinging, and ended up as guilty as anyone he’s criticized for “playing politics.”  Let me summarize Obama message last night: “I’ll talk to anyone about the economy except libertarians.”  Libertarians – or Austrian, free-market economists – might be “sincere” (condescending, wasn’t it?), but [...]

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Phelps & Pot

February 3, 2009

OK, I’ll say it.
The greatest swimmer in the history of the world smokes pot.  And he’s still the greatest swimmer in the history of the world.
Do you think this will cause anyone to rethink the whole “illegal” and “dangerous” pot thing that we’re doing right now?  Might it really be that, like with alcohol and [...]

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Beer Review: Wizard’s Winter Ale – B

January 25, 2009

Blow the trumpets!  Gather the drinkers!  Alert the pubs!  The Beer Reviews are back.  (Now that I’m writing from the “perilous realm,” I need a few good ales and lagers to keep me sane in the midst of danger.)
Time to tell you all about some winter ales and lagers to get you through the remaining [...]

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Reading Update

January 24, 2009

Currently Reading

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, by Eugene Peterson

Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

On Deck:

Dracula, by Bram Stoker
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge

2009 Books Read

Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Enchanted Castle, by Edith Nesbit

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Fred on Friday: Walmart Loses its Holiness

January 23, 2009

Is nothing sacred anymore?  If there were anything that I figured would remain holy and pure, it was Walmart.  Walmart is everything that America is supposed to be, and remember that America is God’s country, despite the liberal, communist, heretical, probably-the-antichrist president that the liberal pagans and atheists have just elected by some form of [...]

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Common Sense on the Economy

January 15, 2009

Why no one listens when he says stuff like this, I don’t understand.

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Ron Paul and Dick Armey on Obama Economic Plan

January 9, 2009
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New Books

January 3, 2009

I love new books, and I love Christmas, because I always get new books, or gift cards for new books.  This year, I’m planning to read as though my entire sustenance were pages and ink. I’ve just finished spending my gift card money at Borders and Barnes & Noble, and here’s my official Christmas book [...]

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2008 Books Read

December 31, 2008

Madeleine L’Engle: A Wind in the Door
Scot McKnight: A Community Called Atonement
Madeleine L’Engle: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Richard L. Purtill: J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion
Sara B. Kajder: The Tech-Savvy English Classroom
Rowing: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Joseph Pearce: Tolkien: Man and Myth
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
McGrath and McGrath: The Dawkins Delusion?
H.P. [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2008

A Christmas poem from George MacDonald:
“Mary’s Lullaby”
Babe Jesus lay in Mary’s lap;
The sun shone on his hair;
And this was how she saw, mayhap,
The crown already there.
For she sang, “Sleep on my little king;
Bad Herod does not come;
Before thee, sleeping, holy thing,
The wild winds would be dumb.
“For thou art king of men, my son.
Thy crown I [...]

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