Max’s Dad always comes up with the best rants. This time he lets his mind wander along with a road trip through Indiana. He doesn’t much like Notre Dame or anyone who attends, or an irate customer at a Steak N Shake, but does like Presidential candidate Pete Butigieg, going so far as to teach us how to pronounce his name – – sort of. He winds up not much caring for Democratic circular firing squads. Can superior, entertaining writing really be that easy for him?
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit doesn’t much care for on-and-off-and-on independent Presidential candidate Howard Schultz and his blame-both-sides approach to everything. But wow she conducts vivisection on the poor guy. If she ever gets mad at me, I plan to give her a friendly smile, abjectly apologize, then throw myself on the ground and beg for mercy.
Author Caitlin Starling was nine years old when her mother died. At Whatever, she explains how the intensity of that early grief influenced her writing.
In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce asks, since Jesus paid our debt for sin, why we still owe God. That strikes me as an interesting technical question that might lead to a worthy discussion of whether we believe and worship because of what we owe. More troubling, it seems to me, would be evil and suffering in the world. Harder still for many Christians would be evil in ourselves. I posted my thoughts on my own belief a couple of years ago.