joyfulchristian

Incoherence

I like Sarah Palin. I'm by no means convinced she would make a good President, but I'm open to persuasion on that point.

However, listening to her is often very difficult. Her voice, of course, is grating sometimes. More to the point, though, is she's often very difficult to understand.John, at Powerline, makes this point in an extended post, but here's the money quote:

The problem here is not inaccuracy, but incoherence. Sarah Palin is a good writer and a good (sometimes excellent, as at the 2008 convention) deliverer of scripted speeches. But when she talks off the cuff, she is often inarticulate and sometimes, as at Old North Church, worse.

I think this is likely to make it much harder to be elected. Not impossible, however. Both GW Bush and Barack Obama are both horrible speaking off the cuff.

Question about the death of bin-Laden

Some people have attempted to argue, on biblical principles, that we should not have pursued and killed bin-Laden. To them I ask, what meaningful difference is there between what we did here and what David did, at the Lord's direction, to the raiders who burned Ziklag in 1 Sam. Chapter 30?

If you think you're job is stressful ...

then consider this.

Wow

Just wow.

My wife is knitting

Check out her site if you're interested in ordering something.

Merry Christmas

Have a good Christmas everyone.

Is government competent?

No, not anywhere as far as I can tell.

So why do people do that?

Just connected with an old friend on Facebook. I see that his new wife is almost the spitting image of his first wife.

Of course, since I was good friends with them both, I'm not exactly unbiased in this situation, but I've never understood why some men go marry a woman who looks a lot like their first wife. Seems somewhat creepy to me.

Things that make me go hmm.

I don't think she thought this through

I've seen several places linking to this story about a Spanish woman claiming she owns the sun and intends to charge a user fee.

Putting aside the whole issue of how absurd it is to claim that you own something on the basis of a notary public's signature, let's follow this through.

What about people who hate the sun? Can they sue her for allowing her property to intrude on their life?

Personally, I plan on suing her for causing global warming.

Selective fanaticism

One of the first bloggers I ever discovered was Bjoern Stark. (Close as I can get with my keyboard.)

Here was this ordinary guy spouting off from another continent with interesting stuff that made me think. That was part of what hooked me on blogging; the idea that ordinary people could write on what was going on in the world and be interesting and informative without any of the advantages of big media was enthralling to me.

These days Bjoern mostly blogs about 40's movies (to each his own, right). Every once in a while, though, he'll kick out a gem like this.