August 2011
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Dylan Ratigan, Mad as Hell: His Epic 'Network'...
megrobertson:
We’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t fixing it, Republicans aren’t stopping it — an entire integrated system, banking, trade and taxation, created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work decimating our entire country right now. MSNBC’s Dylan...
June 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
2 posts
I’m at Paradox Cafe (Portland, OR)
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I’m at Oaks Bottom Public House (Portland, OR)
“Plotting the re-localizing of the church with Paul Sparks over ales and merriment.”
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January 2011
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“Someone once asked Eugene Peterson, “What’s the single most...”
– Bruce Demarest, in Satisfy Your Soul
Watchfull-screen + click-and-drag-the-video = mind blown
absolutely horrible musicians + overplayed song in the background = mute button hit to preserve blown mind.
Solution? Mute video music, open another tab, play this song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E
December 2010
5 posts
I don’t get why Christians are crankier about gays in the military than about Christians in the military. Sexual orientation has little to do with your eligibility to wield state-sanctioned violence, but your love orientation has everything to do with it.
And the Christian’s love orientation is to extend to enemies, right? So… isn’t a cross-bearer becoming an arms-bearer...
Supportland! - incentives for buying local →
Suburbia, Automobility, Consumerism, & Suburban...
{The following is an except from my Fall 2010 term paper. Lemme know if you want a copy when its done.}
At the root of all that follows is automobility, defined here as “the configuration of people, machines, landscape, urban geography, and culture that attends the increasing dependence upon the gas engine for transport in industrial and post industrial societies.” It is the expansive social,...
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell, @WikiLeaks #wikileaks
November 2010
7 posts
WatchStanley Hauerwas’ thoughts on Sentimentality in the church (by The Work Of The People)
"Ten Commandments" monuments rooted in movie...
Turns out Cecil B DeMille helped install over 150 of them to promote his The Ten Commandments movie. From http://bit.ly/dx9UU3…
DeMille believed in film — his films — as spectacle pervading the physical sphere of daily life. Spectacular films required spectacular advertisements and promotions. In 1923, for example, a towering, glittering advertisement for “The Ten...
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Inception Button →
October 2010
9 posts
“You can convict people with beauty.”
– Rob Bell (via sacramentalimagination)
“All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second it is...”
– Schopenhauer
Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly During... →
“[Early tourism-by-car created] the search for ‘experiences’: the...”
– Erik Cohen. How does this resonate with 20-somethings who hop from community to community, from one short-term fix-Africa trip to the next?
Ride the City - Portland →
If GoogleMaps relied on pedal power instead of petrol power.
September 2010
4 posts
Stuff Christian Hipsters Like →
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
“Social conservatives are right about one thing: the American family is under...”
– Alternet article @ http://bit.ly/b8oO4H
August 2010
15 posts
“Those who are prejudiced against the poor cannot represent Jesus.”
– Steve Kimes