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Greed is one of the most popular sins, which explains why it inspired so many Bible verses. For example, Luke 12:15 reads, “Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions,” and was clearly written in a time before pinball machines and dirt bikes.
Cussing is a confusing sin because it requires context. When a farmer refers to his donkey as an ass, that is not a cuss. When a farmer refers to his donkey as a piss-soaked fuck trumpet that crawled out of Satan’s rotten shithole, that is a cuss.
Biblical scholars define sloth as “the sinful desire for ease.” I define sloth as a “long monkey.”
Gluttony refers to all manner of overindulgence, including drunkenness, downing a trayful of Communion grape juice shooters, or eating too many Sugar Daddies from the Vacation Bible School treasure chest and suffering a catastrophic sugar crash while reciting the Fruits of the Spirit.
Lust is what happens when the praise band rhythm guitarist wears a head-to-toe Billabong.
Peeing in the pastor’s above-ground pool during the annual youth group summer hootenanny is almost certainly a sin, but not a very popular one. I don’t know anyone who would do that.
Manchin and a group of failed moderate politicians assembled in New Hampshire on Monday to tout No Labels’ 73-page centrist manifesto.
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For a good many years, Tony Lawson has been urging economists to pay attention to their ontological presuppositions. Economists have not paid much attention, perhaps because few of us know what “ontology” means. This branch of philosophy stresses the need to “grasp the nature of the reality” that is the object of study – and […]
Sadiq Khan has faced relentless flak for the Ultra Low Emissions Zone. But it wasn't his idea.
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Lecturers and students are upset about remarks preferring 'pain along the way' over industrial action
The U.S. military’s elite special operations command doesn’t want its planes tracked, according to a procurement document.
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It’s only July Friends got stuck on the tarmac at O’Hare Airport for three hours last Wednesday as rare tornadoes ripped through the Chicago area. (Local newscasters call it Chicagoland, but that just sounds to me like an amusement park.) There was another tornado warning on Friday evening. The heat is doing more than melt glaciers (Washington Post): As the Northern Hemisphere approaches summer’s peak, heat is testing the limits of human survival in Earth’s hottest spots — and demonstrating the extremes that are increasingly possible and probable against the backdrop of accelerating global warming. In recent days, China set an all-time high of nearly 126 degrees Fahrenheit, while Death Valley hit 128 degrees, two shy of the highest reliably measured temperature on Earth. Phoenix was expected to observe a record-breaking 19th consecutive day at or above 110 degrees Tuesday. And in the Middle East, the heat index reached 152 degrees, nearing — or surpassing — levels thought to be the most intense the human body can withstand.
A new report by a national commission has found that 'systemic racism embedded in the Government’s responses to the pandemic may have worsened outcomes'
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If you didn’t know better, you’d think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there’s nothing menacing about him. He lumbers around like a wise, old hobbling tortoise. We’re standing in the deco lobby of the historic Kiggins Theater in downtown Vancouver, Washington, about to view a screening of Atomic Bamboozle, a remarkable new documentary by filmmaker Jan Haaken that examines the latest push for atomic power and a nuclear “renaissance” in the Pacific Northwest. Lloyd, a Vietnam veteran, is something of an environmental folk hero... Read more
Trump works every angle Whatever else, Donald Trump is relentless. He works every angle, tries every door knob and checks every window for an opening no matter how remote the chance: ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court shot down Donald Trump’s attempt to derail the 2020 Fulton County election investigation in a unanimous dismissal Monday. The justices wrote that Trump failed to prove the circumstances were extraordinary enough to warrant their interference. The court also ruled that the former president’s legal team didn’t provide the “facts or law” necessary to mandate the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. “(Trump) is asking this Court to step in and itself decide the motions currently pending in the superior court,” the order reads. “This is not the sort of relief that this Court affords, at least absent extraordinary circumstances that (Trump) has not shown are present here.” But that doesn’t mean he won’t embarrass his attorneys by making them try, spend others’ money and waste still more people’s time.
When Balwinder Rana came to this country in 1963, aged sixteen, he didn’t expect things to be as bad as they were for South Asians living in Britain. ‘I was one of only five Asian students studying at Gravesend College in Kent,’ he tells me. ‘I remember very clearly when Enoch Powell made the ‘rivers […]
One of his companies, "Muslim Order of the United Kingdom" directs people to donate to a supposed pro-refugee organisation. But it is not a charity and is registered at the same address as seemingly far-right organisations.
An official report reveals why the Conservative Party is unfit to be in charge of the NHS
On this episode of the podcast I speak with Yanis Varoufakis about the role of banks and politicians. Yanis is an economist, politician, author and Secretary-General of MeRA25. He is perhaps best known for his role as the Greek Minister of Finance during the Greek credit crisis. In our discussion we cover some fairly big […]
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Come on, it’s the twenty-first century. I believe in equality between the genders. Or is it equity? Whatever e-word the gals are jabbering about, that’s what I support—100 percent.
Cleaning? I take the living room windows; my wife takes the bedroom windows. I take the closet; she takes the bathroom. I take the kitchen sink; she takes the gutters, basement, and haunted crawl space.
Cooking? Hoo boy, I love to grill. I can’t grill in the winter, but besides that, you can find me outside grilling up enough burgers, brats, and veggies for the whole week, except for the part of spring when it rains. I’m not a huge fan of the humidity in July or August, either, and October is real touch and go in these parts. September and June, though? I’m out there grilling anything and everything, assuming there aren’t any baseball games on the MLB: Every Game Every Night app.
The week started ominously with a French journalist asking me whether the Greeks have turned cold-hearted, alluding to the apparent apathy to the drowning of hundreds of refugees off the coast of the Peloponnese and to the murky role played in this tragedy by our Coastguard. Yes, I replied without a second thought. A population […]
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