Minor Thoughts

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

It’s been a pretty big surprise to me that one of the few magazines out there still interested in shedding some real light on how things work today in Washington D.C. is RollingStone. I mean, yeah, they were cool enough to print stuff from P.J. O’Rourke, but those were basically humor columns. Yet …

After three months, Anna and I have finally grown confident enough about the stability of our lives here in Korea that we’ve entered into a contract for internet service in our apartment. This means I’m listening to podcasts on my iPod again after about six months’ abstinence from them. Here are my favorites:

Common …

So I’m poking around the internet for a directory of given names for Midianites or Amalekites and I find this – a step-by-step, program-assisted guide to creating whatever Canaanite name you want.

Apparently it was created as a tool for people playing roleplaying games in an ancient Canaanite setting – that is, playing Dungeons & Dragons …