Cambridge

It'll be in my newsletter tomorrow, but I thought I'd announce it now. I've accepted a conditional offer to do an M. Phil. in Divinity at Cambridge next year!
Peace,
Chris

And it turns out Americans aren't supposed to like Football (soccer)

While all the wild world-cup crazyness is going on here in England the Weekly Standard has not one, but TWO articles about how horrible Soccer is.
Peace,
Chris

Another Orwell quote

Samizdata provides us with a great quote of the day.
"I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I know that some were committed by the Republicans, and far more (they are still continuing) by the Fascists. But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
- George Orwell
Peace,
Chris

An old friend is going into politics!

Thom Bradley was my Anthro. teacher back in High School. He's got a R beside his name, but none the less I think he'd be great for our states.
Peace,
Chris

A brief but good discussion of The Trinity

It happens rather often. I am enjoying a comfortable dinner or lunch, or maybe even a happy party, when someone turns to me and asks, “I hope you don’t mind my asking. What do Catholics mean when they say ‘the Trinity.’ What do you picture? What goes through your head? I just don’t get it.”
Dinesh D’Souza first pointed out this phenomenon to me. At a Washington dinner party, he was once asked, during the dessert, when Catholics are going to get over their medieval prohibitions on fornication, gay sex, and the rest. Dinesh is a very clever and quick-witted man, so he answered with a straight face. “I’m with you. I think the Catholic church should give up its whole sexual code, permit bestiality, pornography, auto-stimulation, the whole bit.”
And it goes on from there... Worth reading, nothing ground breaking but the scene is set rather well.
Peace,
Chris