…Is as follows: If you’re a hero on the cover of a vintage comic book: always acceptable, even desireable; When the Nazi is either physically assaulting you or is clearly prepating to physically assault you: always acceptable, even necessary; … And that’s as far as I’ve got. Each of us is an innocent civilian in…
Tag: Sermon
“Avengers” movies and choices made
This weekend, the new “Captain America” movie comes out. I feel a bit like a foreigner who’s in the USA on Thanksgiving. All of my friends have been looking forward to this day for weeks, and I’m glad they’re so happy! They all seem to love the movie, which is all that any movie fan…
Got wet; didn’t die
It is with profound regret that I announce that my regular Constitutionals have been moved from the “something I do a few times a week because I enjoy them” list to “something I do a few times a week because I’ve decided it might be kind of cool to keep my “no major health issues”…
Want
It’s New iPhones Day, a tradition that’s so well-understood among our community at this point that I believe we’re only a couple of years away from all of the other stores in the mall making it into a relentless and overbearing nightmare. The CEO of Sears called in his team a few months ago and asked…
Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown
The latest Oatmeal cartoon has been making the rounds of Twitter (largely thanks to John Gruber’s link). It makes two points about the problems of piracy exceptionally well. The intentional point is that the content distributors often make it crazy-stupid hard for us to give them our money. Most of these industries have been frustratingly…