In reading Luck Worsley Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, I can’t tell if she’s a feminist, a Lutheran, neither, some, or both. Two things I don’t like about this book is that while Agatha Christie never said that any of her books, save for her autobiography, were autobiographical novels, the author repeatedly cites some as being so. Second, as Ron Chernow can apologize in the sense of apologia for Mark Twain’s racism in his recent biography on Twain, so Worsley tries to make her more of a feminist than she appears to be. Continue reading
Agatha Christie Feminist or Lutheran?
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From the Well of Feminism Totalitarianism Will Come
Make no mistakes men have dug that well. In 1997 I asked and answered Why is Feminism So Hard to Resist?: because we are all feminized. Not in the good way that Chesterton said all men are by virtue of being born of women. The mother child reunion may be only a motion away as St. Paul, Simon that is, sang, but the union starts at conception. Ask any honest women, Christian or no, and she will say she has some sort of relationship with that unborn person. Continue reading
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Black Box Warnings
The Internet tells me that warnings started appearing on tobacco products in 1966. I smoked until 1976 and I don’t remember them. They weren’t called Black Box Warnings till 1979 and then it might have started with some prescription drugs. Well, in my mind the Smartphone should come with one. Continue reading
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Nothing New Under Sun and 1-2-3-4 isn’t the Dumbest Password
At least it was new to me, when the Israeli’s rigged the phones of Hamas to explode. Turned out they’ve been there and done that thirty years ago! Sixty years ago, 1962, the U.S. proved they could parachute a two man team in a HALO jump into foreign territory, set up a 98 pound nuclear weapon in minutes, and exfil them successfully. These are both recorded in the 2019 book by Annie Jacobson, Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operations and Assassins. Continue reading
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So, There Really Is a Deep State
Harper’s Magazine’s cover blared: “Round Two: Trump’s Futile War Against the Deep State”. Before even reading it, I was struck that this liberal publication would admit the existence of the Deep State. It seems it wasn’t till Hillary Clinton, a liberal of liberals, said that her husband’s problems in office – I will be discreet here – were due to a “vast rightwing conspiracy” that it became acceptable to even think of political machinations going on deep within the state. Continue reading
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Mary, Mother of God
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Your Body Bag House
That’s what a member asked me years before while still in the parish. I asked a question about my house, and he responded, “That depends. Is it your body bag house?” This needs no explanation, does it? You know what he means. The house you expect to die in. Well, we have one now. Continue reading
Most Controversial Blog Ever
It is possible to go so overboard about “faith” about believing – like Pentecostals do, some Baptists do, and some Lutherans too, then you end up having faith in faith, worshipping faith. The same is true of liturgy. You can go so overboard about liturgics that you worship worship. Can you so overboard about the Bible that you worship it? Would that necessarily be wrong? Continue reading
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Have we believed in vain?
That is the subject of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod president Matthew Harrison’s fund appeal of March 9, 2026. you may ask why I who haven’t been a member of the LCMS for 7 years would even know about this letter? Because the ever inept LCMS bureaucracy sent me the letter. Continue reading
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