I love the internet. You can find literally anything.
Here’s a site where you can actually see a county-by-county breakdown, over the entire United States, of the way in which folks refer to Coke (i.e., Coke, soda, pop, etc.).
How does anyone have the time to do this?
This website is great:
A Little Leaven (A Museum of Idolatry: This Is What Happens When the Church Fails to Remain Faithful to the Correct Preaching and Teaching of God’s Word)
This website brilliantly exposes the drivel that passes for evangelical Christianity in America. The categories on the right side can give you a taste of what’s in store. Interestingly, what we call Christian Chaff, they call Je$u$ Junk.
For those not familiar with the verb “to fisk”, it means to analyze a (typically absurd) written piece on the internet, ripping it to shreds logically, frequently line by line. I think it came from a bad writer whose last name was Fisk, whom other bloggers frequently held up to ridicule for factual errors, agenda journalism, poor logic, etc.
The fisking in this case is done by Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison Law Professor Ann Althouse, and can be found in its entirety here. The article being fisked is this one from the AP, which purports to analyze the performance of Hillary Clinton in yesterday’s hostage drama.
Here’s a key quote:
Afterwards, she [Clinton] used the occasion to make a show of her emotions (or did you think she was cold and mechanical). She said:“It affected me not only because they were my staff members and volunteers, but as a mother, it was just a horrible sense of bewilderment, confusion, outrage, frustration, anger, everything at the same time.”Is that what you want in a President? Someone who feels extra confusion because she’s a mother? … She probably wanted to make sure not to confirm the widely held belief that she’s unemotional, and, while she was at it, delight all the ladies out there who lap up emotional drivel.
Just a hunch, but I don’t think Prof. Althouse has much use for either the AP or Hillary.
This is pretty cool. Go to manybooks.net. There you will find a nice selection of books absolutely free to download to your computer, your PDA, or even to your iPod in Notes format.
I love the internet.
This was brought to my attention by Mr. Corley Odom:
Check out www.monergism.com
This site has an amazing amount of free resources. (Sermons, eBooks, and reading material.) The speakers and authors who present “Reformed Calvinism,” are from many varied denominations— which makes it very appealing to those who are trying to evangelize thoroughly “Christian” coworkers, friends, and neighbors.