Some Catching Up

So the lack of entries recently is due to the fact that we moved into a new apartment this past weekend (officially a condo, actually, which we’re renting) and not only have I been spending most of my time unpacking, I have also been continuously tired and sore from the movement of both furniture and [...]

Read Full Post »

Live, from London: A Foiled Fulbrighter

Well, not quite ‘live.’  But you can read all about the effects of the thwarted terrorist plot and the craziness at the U.K. airports on my friend Jenna, who is currently attempting to make it to Norway, but unfortunately had a transfer at Heathrow on Thursday.  (The most recent post also contains pics of some [...]

Read Full Post »

green transportation in chicago

Not to distract from the conversation going on in the posts below, but there are some other things I’d been planning on writing about as well.
For instance: the first-ever Chicago Eco-Transportation Show!
Part of Chicago Green Drinks, the show will feature a variety of sustainable transportation chioces: hybrid, electric, and biofuel cars; bikes of various [...]

Read Full Post »

re: why does the destruction caused by Israeli forces strike you as more poignant?

I’d like to respond to a comment made by Zev on the last post; I started replying but then realized it was getting fairly long pretty quickly, and might be better as a separate entry. Zev said:
One quick question. As you really do propone peace, which would entail a cessation of violence on behalf [...]

Read Full Post »

more recent thoughts on israel/lebanon

The BBC has a chart of facts relating to the Israel-Lebanon conflict, the numbers for which were most recently updated August 8th. The number of deaths and injuries, are of course, appalling, given that Israel’s initial attack was supposedly over a few military deaths (nearly 1,000 Lebanese have now died, predominately civilians, compared [...]

Read Full Post »

Be a book mooch

Ben frequently likes to refer to Hyde Park as home to the world’s most promiscuous books. The huge number of used book sales, not to mention the Powell’s free book box, are some of the key temptations in leading books away from faithfulness to their original owner. And now we have a tool [...]

Read Full Post »

Only Biblical Morality? Or Something More?

There’s a good post up titled The Mystery of God and Biblical Morality over at Father Jake Stops the World (“the musings of an eclectic and sometimes eccentric Episcopal priest”) which quotes a sermon that takes a look at some of those passages many find troubling in the Bible – stoning to death as a [...]

Read Full Post »