Sick.

I pride myself in how infrequently I get sick. But when I get a cold, it almost always goes into my lungs and becomes bronchitis. I tend to take it easy when I start getting sick, because I don’t have health insurance and I’m afraid of getting bad bronchitis or even pneumonia.

So, while I sit here, blowing my nose and coughing, I offer you the following worthy links for your perusal:

Evangelical votes to determine the fate of America. I remember getting royally cussed-out after Bush was re-elected. Upon hearing what I “do” for a living, the distraught young man said “Damn you Christians. Because of you, an evil man is once again the most powerful f****** man in the world.”

Scot McKnight rejects the stereotype that emerging folk “talk like Lutherans (cuss)…theologize and evangelize like Reformed (which means they do lots of the former and little of the latter)….confess like mainliners (say things they don?t actually believe), drink like Episcopalians….worship like charismatics (with their whole bodies, including tattoos….vote liberal (which is to say, they?re Democrats)….deny truth (Derida in their backpacks).”

Muslim taxi-drivers in Minneapolis can reject passengers carrying alcohol. This is huge story that has gotten little coverage.

St. Louis is the most dangerous city in America. Just in time for Urbana 06.

for further reading . . .

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