I remembered one of the other things I was thinking about posting about yesterday: the flip between red & blue for representing the Democrats and Republicans in US political maps, graphs, graphs, and in referring to the partisan inclination of various states ( Read more... )

There was a beer commercial fairly recently which used the phrase "good as cold ever tasted". Critics pointed out that "cold is not a flavour." I think I could make a similar statement about why praise band style "contemporary" worship does not appeal to me: "loud" is not a melody ( Read more... )

It's the tenth day of Christmas, but I'm not sure I could muster much excitement about ten lords a-leaping if they showed up on my doorstep (mind you, it's a rather small doorstep, and I don't think they'd fit anyway ). I'm sick. I have been for a week and I'm tired of it. I forced myself to down a cup of boiled ginger and honey this morning and ( Read more... )

fpb's post linking to a new Harry Potter fan fic which begins with the Wesley twins when they were seven elicted a comment from me that I will expand upon here ( Read more... )