Daily links

[Pseudo-Polymath](http://www.pseudopolymath.com/) (of whom I am very fond), has an intermittant set of posts he does called “morning links,” where he quickly runs through his morning reading and points out any notable developments. Sort of like a personal bonsai version of the [Instapundit](http://instapundit.com/). I always get a picture of Archie Bunker looking up over the newspaper and saying, “Hey Edith, get a load of this!” (I have no idea if that’s even the sort of thing he’d say.) I’m going to try this method of posting and see if it can work for me. There are always a whole host of things I read in a day that interest me that I’d love to point out to somebody (or somebodies), but I’m always loathe to post them individually, because it would run anything “important” I’ve said (and anything Valerie has said) down to the bottom of the page.

Hopefully, if I can squeeze everything down into one post, we won’t have that problem. So: Continue reading “Daily links”

I’ve changed My Mind

I don’t want to go to school in Boston. I want to go to Seminary in [Anadarko](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Main+st,+anadarko,+ok&ll=35.093506,-98.240843&spn=2.859375,5.973598&hl=en)

I’ve just gotten the lease agreement for what looks like the best deal for an apartment for us in the Boston exurbs. They require up front, first month’s rent, last month’s rent, and a security deposit equal to a month’s rent. That would be three months. I’ve talked them down to $799 a month for rent. $2400 would be slightly less than what I paid (each) for the first two cars I bought.

So… who wants to contribute to the Kyle and Valerie fund? Whatever isn’t spent on rent will go toward psychiatric treatment.

Magazines

I’m not very fond of magazines. I think it’s the short, pithy articles that usually turn me off. Invariably, a magazine will summarize exactly in the part where I want an in-depth discussion, and delve deep into some personal aspect on a question that I find completely irrelevant. Books are my friends. If an issue isn’t worth a few hundred pages of in-depth discussion, it’s probably not worth thinking about too much. At the very least, if it isn’t worth at least *implying* the need for several hundred pages of discussion, I can’t help thinking that somebody is playing the man-behind-the-curtain routine.

There is, of course, another reason for my antipathy toward magazines. Continue reading “Magazines”

Is He Serious??

Rusty at [New Covenant](http://newcovenant.blogspot.com) has a post up criticizing a song he doesn’t like about being [so in love with Jesus](http://newcovenant.blogspot.com/2005/05/jesus-i-am-so-in-love-with-you.html)

> You are God in heaven
> And here am I on earth
> So I’ll let my words be few
> Jesus, I am so in love with You

> The simplest of all love songs
> I want to bring to You
> So I’ll let my words be few
>Jesus, I am so in love with You

“What is it about our culture, here in America, that motivates us to emphasize a *personal relationship* with this Jesus who loves us…” Rusty asks, “Is this a pattern that is modeled in scripture?”

Is he serious? He can’t find a single reference in scripture that talks about a passionate, personal relationship with the Godhead? Hoo boy. Continue reading “Is He Serious??”

Being Healthy

On Wednesday, I received an email from the Drexel MPH program. They had received my release form for their program to review the application I filled out for Drexel University Medical School. They asked so nicely for it too…Anyway, yesterday’s email told me that they needed a personal statement from me before the committee could review my completed application. Here was my prompt:

“This statement, which can be e-mailed to me, should describe what you perceive to be pressing public health issues, why a career in the field appeals to you, and how it will utilize your strengths and commitment. It should be approximately one page length.” Continue reading “Being Healthy”

Thoughts on Abortion

I don’t know why my mind is turning to this particularly, but since it is, I thought I’d post some thoughts:

The debate over abortion tends to revolve around the issue of when and if the preborn become separate alive individual humans. This seems obvious because the morality of killing something revolves around whether it’s human. If it ain’t human, it can’t be murder. However, the argument that a fetus isn’t really human is a rationalization, not a reason. If there were no other precursive reason for getting an abortion, the argument that the fetus was nothing more than a ball of cells (or whatever argument) would have no weight at all: Even a formless glob of cells that will, if left uninterrupted, turn into a fully formed human being is a pretty impressive thing. Humans are by and large pretty wonderful, and there’s no reason not to let that process continue. If I had a wart on my left elbow which, if left to itself, would grow into a fully developed human being, I would have every reason to let it continue. On the other hand, if the fact that a fetus wasn’t human were a *reason* for getting an abortion, then it would be a reason to abord **all** preborn children. So there must be some other motivation before an abortion can occur.

As far as I know there are three actual *reasons* for an abortion: Continue reading “Thoughts on Abortion”