recycling unread books – one option anyway
just love it: From this week’s New Yorker
I always knew there was more to Macs (in my heart of hearts)…
OK – I admit it. I was proud. I used to swear by PCs and would be very rude to Mac users – esp when we lived in Uganda and there were so few of them that they were forced to huddle together in the shadows for fear of reprisals and scorn. We always had […]
pearls before breakfast
it’s old news now, i know. but i couldn’t resist linking to it in case you missed it. American Virtuoso violinist JOSHUA BELL was challenged to see if he could make commuters look up while he busked at L’Enfant Plaza metro station in downtown Washington DC. The Washington Post had the whole story back in […]
Swashbuckling rebuttal of the ‘cowardly atheists’
TheoHobson writing in today’s Guardian – responding to the latest assault by Christopher Hitchens – all quite fun! Atheism is pretentious and cowardly
1901-2000: The Atheist’s Century – a helpful overview
Nancy Pearcey, who co-wrote How Now Shall We Live with Chuck Colson, wrote a helpful overview at the time of its publication. Came across it randomly – it is definitely worth filing for future reference if not reading now. The Century Of Cruelty – Making Sense of Our Era
oh the ironies! Darwin, Freud, Marx in church refurbs – but church planting is still key
The 3 amigos as I like to call them: 3 venerable DWEMs (i.e. – Dead White European Males – of course, I’m all too aware that I fit 3 out of 4 of those epithets, but refuse to say which). If they but knew it, they would be spinning in their graves somewhere (look out […]
For the love of God – Hirst’s skull
Damien Hirst has done it again – art hitting the headlines – and achieving what he seems to love most – the limelight. You have to hand to him i suppose. This time he’s unveiled a £50 million work, with £12m-worth of diamonds encrusted into a human skull he bought at a junk shop. Hirst […]
Arrival 1946 – Moniza Alvi
A wonderfully concise poem by the Pakistani-British poet Moniza Alvi. It says it all in just 8 lines. A post-war immigrant’s initial experience of England in all its weirdness and incomprehensibility. Arrival 1946 The boat docked in at Liverpool. From the train Tariq stared at an unbroken line of washing from the North West to […]
