Two words: “I mis-spoke.”

Last week the SBC passed a resolution calling for a more liberal immigration policy, which only passed after an amendment was attached explicitly rejecting amnesty.

 

Why is God’s forgiveness good enough to become a citizen of Heaven, but amnesty is not good enough to become a citizen of America?  I thank God he doesn’t treat Christians the way Christians treat immigrants.

Anthony Weiner owes the American people in general, and his constituents in New York in particular, nothing at all.

 

Here’s what he owes us: his commitment to defend the Constitution of the United States, and represent the interests of his district.  His Tweets have violated neither of these responsibilities.

 

Likewise, former Speaker and current Republican candidate for President Newt Gingrich owes the American voter no apology for his infidelities.  His failure to commit to his wives should not disqualify him from serious consideration for president.

 

All we should ask of our elected officials that they do the job we elect them for.  We don’t elect them to be arbiters of sexual morality, so it’s silly for them to expose their sex lives to us.

 

We need to hold our elected officials to a higher standard.  Expecting them to resign and apologize to us for their sexual indiscretions holds them to a lower standard.

 

 

What is the life well-lived? Is it one that relaxed, or one that produced?

¹And it came to pass in the days following the submission deadline for AEJMC that two research chairs from RMIG cried out from the wilderness, ²saying “Behold all ye who have ears to hear and eyes to read email.  For the day is coming when all conference papers shall be judged, ³reviewed by a host of two or three peers who shall weigh the papers based on their scholarly merits, like a shepherd weighs a lamb based on the quality of its wool.  ⁴Who among you will answer the call to review papers?”

 

⁵And there in that same place stood a crowd of scholars, grad students and tenured professors alike, who asked among themselves, “Surely these men are mad.  For what have we to gain by reviewing the work of our peers?”  ⁶And the research chairs heard the crowd and replied, “Do you not know of the recognition by AEJMC of those who answer the call to review papers, ⁷for their names shall be written in the book of convention so that all may know of their efforts, and so that they may note their service in their CVs.”

 

⁸The crowd grumbled among itself, saying “But we are too busy to review papers.”  ⁹The research chairs replied, “Fear not, for we will not assign you more papers than you can handle.  ¹⁰Verily, we say to you: we anticipate each reviewer shall receive no more than three papers to review.”

 

¹¹“But sirs,” replied the crowd, “surely there is not enough time to review papers before the deadline of judgment.”  ¹²And the research chairs responded, “Yes, the deadline of judgment is nigh, but it shall not come until the end of the month of April.  There is still time upon us to review.”

 

¹³Upon hearing this the more righteous members of the crowd raised their voices in unison, saying “We are ready to review papers.  Lead us to where we can receive these papers.”  ¹⁴And the research chairs rejoiced, saying “You are the most blessed.  Send ye an email to Kyle Huckins at kyle.huckins@indwes.edu and say that you wish to review papers.  ¹⁵And also, get ye an account on the AEJMC All-Academic site at http://www.aejmcstlouis.org/home/papercall.”  ¹⁶And these new reviewers accepted these papers into their lives, and they were richly blessed beyond measure.

 

All I want to do is read my to-do list.  This has taken most of the evening.

 

I am a MobileMe user for one primary reason: iCal.  My family and I use five different Apple products–two iPhones, an iPad, an iMac at home, and a MacBook Pro for my work–and we use MobileMe to sync our calendars.  Yes, it costs us $99 a year, but the cost is worth it for the reliability.

 

There is one function on iCal, though, that needs correcting.  I can access my to-do list on the iMac and MacBook Pro, but I cannot access it on any of the mobile devices.  I figured this was a temporary problem that Apple would solve eventually.  So when I got an email last week inviting me to upgrade to the new MobileMe iCal, I figured surely they have resolved this problem.  I logged in to my account and upgraded to the new calendar.

 

A few minutes later I got am message on my MacBook Pro that there was a problem with the sync to MobileMe, and it asked me if I wanted to go ahead with the sync by deleting some files.  I verified that I had saved the files, and went ahead with the deletion.  The sync went through, and I lost all of my iCal information on the MacBook.

 

I am not too worried about “losing” the information–it is still on the online cloud, and I can access it online and on the mobile devices.  Still, it would be nice to have the calendar information in general, and the to-do list in particular–back on my MacBook Pro.  So I did a little research and discovered that the new MobileMe iCal I upgraded to is incompatible with Mac OS 10.5, which is what my iMac and MacBook Pro were using.  Instead, I need Mac OS 10.6.6.

 

I got an OS 10.6 upgrade on the MacBook Pro from the university, but I still need the software update from Apple.com to go to 10.6.6.  I ran Software Update once already, and had the MacBook install the updated operating system.  After thirty minutes the install quit, noting that one of the files is corrupted.

 

I’m running the install one more time as I type this.

 

All I want is to see what I have left to do this week.  I should’ve just written my to-do list down on a sheet of iPaper.