Mon, Jul 23, 2007
Faith awry: “In heaven, if a martyr feels hungry, food appears, the best quality food, and you won’t even know where it came from.” But is it heaven if you feel hungry — that is, if you want, need, or lack something; if you are still subject to physical desires; if you are necessarily distracted from the love of God? If paradise is just a luxury resort with phenomenal service, why seek death when a reasonable facsimile may be constructed here?
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I was a Hillary Clinton supporter — inasmuch as I thought she would be easiest to beat — until the past month. Back in March, several friends told me that the polling indicates that Obama will be easier to knock off, and at the beginning of May, the data swayed me to their view. Lo, it is happening, and though we don’t deserve it, we now have a shot in November.
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Chris Bowers loves Googlebombing, and he’s at it again. But is there any data to suggest that it achieves anything? And to pull back a bit, is there any data to suggest that Internet-search results affect, you know, voting? In the absence of either, this seems mostly like a way for online-activist types to pretend they’re doing something.
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On the topic of the Furman faculty pouting over the President’s Commencement address, Bob McAlister wrote a much better column than I did for the Greenville News.
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It’s already Tuesday on the east coast, which means The Next Right is open for business. This is your must-read of the week.
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