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241 days ago
I realize Podcast have been around a good long time and that this post is probably a day late and a dollar short, but it was only this summer that I bought an IPod (Silver 160GB classic) and started to take advantage the variety of Podcast that are available for free. In the 9 months that I have owned an Ipod, I estimate that fully half of my listening has been spoken word Podcast in addition to my 40gb of music that I own. My National Guard duty station is almost 5 hours away and if I have to venture deeper into the bowels of Illinois, I often have a 12 to 13 hour round trip on my drill weekends. Nothing makes this time go by quickly than being immersed in high quality Podcast. Here is a short list of some high quality Podcast that I enjoy. 1. Philosophy Bites This program is hosted by Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds and features contemporary philosophers discussing the ideas of past philosophers or their own work. This program usually runs 15 to 20 ...
291 days ago
There are two realities about my life that come into conflict with one another on a daily basis. The first is that I have a wide range of dissimilar responsibilities and activities. The second is that I have a really sticky clutch that keeps me from shifting gears quickly. If I do not have a large block of time to ramp up into an activity I have a tendency to procrastinate on that activity. For example, my wife got home at 1400 today and I have a guitar class at 1500. What do I do with that one hour? I can accomplish a lot in one hour of solid work, but it takes me an hour to get to that hour of productive time. My day is filled with these sorts of moments. There is a block of time from when Eleanor goes down for a nap and my wife gets home, an hour long block between Tracy going to bed and the time that I go to bed, and an hour and a half between my guitar class and my world religion class. That is about 5 hours in a day that could theoretically be used for a large ...
311 days ago
I have been getting a flood of spam from the Window Live Space. Everyday I get spam comments on my postings and bogus friendship request. I realize that I have said this before, but this time FOR SURE. I own the www.fearandtrembling.org name so it should not be a problem for my regular readers. I do think that you will need to renew your RSS when I get the new site together. I also need a radical shift in the content of my blog. I am seriously constrained about the amount of Political commentary I can make due to my officer commission, I place all of my personal stuff on my Facebook Page for friends and family, and these two topics made up about 2/3 of all my post. I can either focus on Chaplaincy in general, take it in a purely theological direction or talk about organization issues. I will have to think this over some more....
312 days ago
Recently a friend of mine expressed concern about Rick Warren's lack of inclusiveness by invoking the name of Jesus during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. In the days leading up to the event, the Blogosphere and political commentators were all atwitter over the question of, "Will he or won't he invoke Jesus?" They asked the question as if saying Jesus in a prayer would bring the machinery of democracy to a grinding halt or, from the other perspective, as if not saying Jesus would bring some great harm to the cause of Christ. This prompted me to reflect again on the religious pluralism that we have in the United States and to attempt a definition that is workable. This campaign season has been littered with terms of questionable definition. Terms such as unity and inclusiveness are frequently used with no regard for workable definitions. What are we to be unified around and into what are we being included? Let's look to religious pluralism first. A common ...
347 days ago
There has been a common narrative about the failing car industry: The Big Three are failing because they have not made more fuel efficient cars. You hear this narrative repeated in news reports, you hear it senate hearing, and you hear it screamed by the blogosphere, but is it true? The Chevy Malibu gets 30 mpg, the Toyota Camry gets about 30 mpg and the Honda Accord gets about 30 mpg. In fact I was driving around in a National Guard Chevy Impala all over the state doing military business and I got 34 mpg ALL WEEK in that larger car! The call is for the Big Three to offer more hybrids, but although no specific numbers are known, Toyota is thought to LOSE money on every single Prius sold! Is this the magic formula for bringing the Big Three back to profitability? Selling cars at a loss? This sounds like a recipe for AMTRAK part II. Will the car “czar” be approving designs as they come off the drafting board? Will congress members take up clay modeling? Maybe there will be a ...
