http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/ "and the angels had guitars even before they had wings" en-US Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:15:13 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://stratopastor.typepad.comhttp://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gif http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/08/heres-something-to-chew-on.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/08/heres-something-to-chew-on.html Current Affairs stratopastor Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:15:13 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/08/okayso-im-busy.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/08/okayso-im-busy.html But this is worth reading. Current Affairs stratopastor Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:10:49 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/06/daily-history.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/06/daily-history.html So many reasons to love Jon Stewart in this clip from June 4. Watch to the end for an assessment of the truly historic nature of what went on June 3. Current Affairs Phun Television stratopastor Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:55:53 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/what-me-worry.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/what-me-worry.html I only know Fareed Zakaria from his relatively frequent appearances on The Daily Show. He's always interesting and obviously brilliant. I found an excerpt from his new book The Post-American World, on Newsweek's site. Zakaria outlines a hopeful, global future... Current Affairs stratopastor Thu, 22 May 2008 08:12:05 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/with-friends-li.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/with-friends-li.html Here's talk radio guy Kevin James of KRLA, which bills itself as "intelligent" talk radio. People wonder what's gone wrong with us, the greatest country in the world. I can tell you in four words: people like Kevin James. In... Current Affairs stratopastor Fri, 16 May 2008 14:24:16 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/clergy-entitlem.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/clergy-entitlem.html I was just nosing through the news items from the 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church. Once again, it's hard to say anything of significance changed. The extension of our mission statement from "Making disciples of Jesus Christ"... Methodism stratopastor Mon, 05 May 2008 16:22:06 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/gassy-politics.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/05/gassy-politics.html Great article from Thomas Friedman in the New York Times on why the McCain-Clinton gas tax holiday is a bad idea. Economists of all stripes have labeled this as political pandering at its worst; with no relief on gas prices... Current Affairs stratopastor Thu, 01 May 2008 09:52:49 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/04/and-this-was-be.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/04/and-this-was-be.html Great speech by Tim Robbins given to the National Association of Broadcasters...whether you like Robbins or not, he nailed the MSM to the wall on this one...and, in the process, presented at least some semblance of a vision for what... Current Affairs stratopastor Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:26:26 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/04/a-glory-night.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/04/a-glory-night.html Everybody who's ever seen Bruce Springsteen live has always told me, "You haven't really heard him until you've heard him live." This, of course, is a pretty standard line for any major fan of any major artist. Over the years,... Music stratopastor Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:16:37 -0500 http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/04/childs-play.html http://stratopastor.typepad.com/stratopastor/2008/04/childs-play.html History isn't a seesaw. If you have a really bad regime on one side, the actions on the other side don't automatically become good. It doesn't work that way. This came out of an interview with Nicholson Baker, author of... Miscellaneous Quotes stratopastor Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:03:40 -0500