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New pictures, from this weekend. Most of them came out unusable, here is what I could salvage from them.
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2003-05-21
in the news
"Economic worrywarts face the grim need to cheer up. As long as we learn to deal with the right mix of worries, we hardly have a worry in the world."
Rah-rah-rah-ism from William Safire, who says we have nothing to worry about regarding deflation, the weak dollar, and skyrocketing deficits.
Response to Mr. Safire: Yes, I suppose it is true that federal deficits and deflation exert opposing influences on interest rates and other economic factors. This does not mean, however, that we have nothing to worry about. Quite the opposite -- it probably means that we are borrowing-and-spending our way into some new kind of morass that our economic theories won't predict, and that subsequently we won't know how to get out of.
"[State Rep. Danny] Martiny, having viewed raunchy videos shot in the French Quarter, says he 'cannot believe that anyone' would find such behavior acceptable.
Right, which is why it's always been very illegal, and judges already have the discretion to send offenders to prison. Martiny says his bill is necessary, however, because mandatory jail time would provide an added deterrent.
Maybe it would if that's what the bill said. But it is so sloppily drafted that it comes nowhere near to conveying Martiny's intent."
James Gill, on a new measure that would make illegal something that, well, already is.
Response to Mr. Gill: As usual I agree with you for the most part (and it was a pleasure to hear you speak at my church last fall) but in the future please refrain from cheap swipes at the tarot readers. It's unbecoming.
Rah-rah-rah-ism from William Safire, who says we have nothing to worry about regarding deflation, the weak dollar, and skyrocketing deficits.
Response to Mr. Safire: Yes, I suppose it is true that federal deficits and deflation exert opposing influences on interest rates and other economic factors. This does not mean, however, that we have nothing to worry about. Quite the opposite -- it probably means that we are borrowing-and-spending our way into some new kind of morass that our economic theories won't predict, and that subsequently we won't know how to get out of.
"[State Rep. Danny] Martiny, having viewed raunchy videos shot in the French Quarter, says he 'cannot believe that anyone' would find such behavior acceptable.
Right, which is why it's always been very illegal, and judges already have the discretion to send offenders to prison. Martiny says his bill is necessary, however, because mandatory jail time would provide an added deterrent.
Maybe it would if that's what the bill said. But it is so sloppily drafted that it comes nowhere near to conveying Martiny's intent."
James Gill, on a new measure that would make illegal something that, well, already is.
Response to Mr. Gill: As usual I agree with you for the most part (and it was a pleasure to hear you speak at my church last fall) but in the future please refrain from cheap swipes at the tarot readers. It's unbecoming.
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Just wrote some thoughts for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
challenging_god that I wanted to post here for posterity.
An ongoing discussion about Biblical rules on marriage with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aarondarling spurred some thoughts that I want to expand upon and record here in my journal for posterity.
The perennial question facing anyone of any religious tradition is, how do I live out these teachings in practice? Some of the teachings make no sense in modern contexts. Some of the teachings even give differing, vague, or contradictory guidelines.
Where the scriptural teachings are very old, there is the additional question of how to live by these teachings in the modern world. How many of the moral proscriptions were really meant to be eternal? This question is compelling especially when we consider that most scriptures reveal an evolution of moral codes over time. Buddhist moral codes were meant as a reformation of Hindu moral codes. Christian moral codes were meant as a reformation of Jewish and Roman moral codes.
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challenging_god that I wanted to post here for posterity.An ongoing discussion about Biblical rules on marriage with
aarondarling spurred some thoughts that I want to expand upon and record here in my journal for posterity.The perennial question facing anyone of any religious tradition is, how do I live out these teachings in practice? Some of the teachings make no sense in modern contexts. Some of the teachings even give differing, vague, or contradictory guidelines.
Where the scriptural teachings are very old, there is the additional question of how to live by these teachings in the modern world. How many of the moral proscriptions were really meant to be eternal? This question is compelling especially when we consider that most scriptures reveal an evolution of moral codes over time. Buddhist moral codes were meant as a reformation of Hindu moral codes. Christian moral codes were meant as a reformation of Jewish and Roman moral codes.
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