Dec
25
2018

URLs du Jour

Christmas 2018

Merry Christmas to all!

  • Michael P. Ramirez seeks The third wise man.

    [The Third Wise Man]

    A little political for December 25, but Michael's stuff is just so darn gorgeous, I don't need much of an excuse to embed it.

    And, yes, I've figured out how to embed cartoons from his website again. Apparently the bare domain name 'michaelpramirez.com' no longer DNS-resolves, so all references have to be changed to 'www.michaelpramirez.com'. Thank goodness for my basic knowledge of grep/bash/vi.

  • The Scrooges at National Review have deemed Kevin D. Williamson's article, Christmas Truths & Choices, to be "NRPlus", which I assume means unblessed peons can't see it. But (I hope) they won't get me for a fair-use excerpt:

    Christianity is a strange religion and a carnal one, insisting that the true kingdom is not of this world but defined by an act done in the flesh, to a body — the body belonging to the little baby in the manger. How do people with children do it? How do you look at that tiny, defenseless little baby, and tell Him the truth? And let’s not be shy — not out here in the cold and the darkness with the shepherds and the lambs who don’t know what they’re really in for come Passover — about what that truth is: that He is to be scourged and beaten, denounced, and publicly executed in the most gruesome fashion that the most vindictive minds of the greatest political power on Earth could devise, and that this is part of some inscrutable master plan cooked up by His Heavenly Father, Who alternates unpredictably between raining down on His people manna from heaven and floods of extinction. A Father who insists He loves His only begotten Son and is well-pleased in Him: This is His program, understand. The Romans are only instrumental. What would that baby say to all that, if a newborn could speak? Would He plead with us, “Let this cup pass from me”? Or would he say something else?

    RTWT, if you can.

  • From Friends Meeting House in the UK version of Mansfield (a couple years old, but it was new to me):

    I sing that all the time! People tell me it's a tune for which my voice is especially suited!

  • And Pierre Lemieux at EconLog wishes us a Merry Mathematical Christmas!. Also Tweeted by a number of people:

    You can click over to the EconLog link to find Pierre's musings on the beauties of mathematics, and its proper use in economics.


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