"What on earth does a tattoo historian do, I had wondered. The answer is much the same as an ordinary art historian, except the canvas is living (or dead) human skin." Fascinating article.
What a week of groceries looks like around the world.
I've had Jake Shimabukuro on my iPod for years. Glad he's getting critical recognition.
"I am not here to represent the Bible Belt's political interest to a post-Christian culture. I'm here to help equip churches to signal the coming kingdom of God." Russell Moore, new president of my convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, at OutofUr.
"The Civil War proved a turning point. 'Before the war, it was said the United States are,' the late historian Shelby Foote said. 'After the war, it was always the United States is, as we say today without being self-conscious at all. And that sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an is.'" In an Atlantic piece that wonders about the significance of Obama's use of "these United States" in speeches--a reference he uses nearly as much as President Reagan did.
"This is Water." Here's the commencement speech for the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College by the late David Foster Wallace, creatively rendered:
James Taranto explains how pro-choice rhetoric infantilizes women.
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