APOLARITY

• Who Would Jesus Smack Down? – NYT article about Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church and “New Calvinism”. (via)

MD on those who questioned the firing of pastors last year: “They are sinning through questioning”.

Previously: here and here.

• The African in Him – interview with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on America, Obama, and “restorative justice” as opposed to “retributive justice”. Quote:

“The African in him is the one who is making him ask, ‘What is the consensus?’ That’s the African way at its best. The good leader in Africa is the leader who keeps quiet and lets others speak and then says at the end, ‘I have heard you all, and this is our mind.’”

• Calvin & Hobbes on the Auto Bailout (c. 1993) – Eerily prescient. Via NPR’s Planet Money via Geektronica.
• You Are Being Lied to About Pirates – Huffington Post article about the abysmal situation in Somalia.
• Proportionality And Terror – Andrew Sullivan evaluates the situation in Gaza against the Catholic ‘Just War’ criteria.
• “The Facebook” – “With the combination of the Google and the Facebook, the RNC will be a technological force to be reckoned with.”
• Mark Lynch (aka Abu Aardvark) is now blogging at Foreign Policy. He provides a lot of really good, sane, detailed information about Middle Eastern politics. Definitely a worthwhile blog.

I imported some posts from my old, old blog. I hope it does not need to be said that I no longer agree with everything in the archives.

Well, I’d like to say I’m back. No guarantees, no guilt, no regrets. It is what it is.