March 2007

The Archives

• How to make an Atlanta street

  03.18.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Atlanta has streets like no other. Unlike most cities, Atlanta is a city that never planned to grow. It still hasn’t planned. But why plan when you can have Atlanta streets?
  The first trick to making an Atlanta street is to make the lanes only fifteen inches wider than the average […]

• swearing

  The swearing workshop

  03.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A long, thorough, and imminently helpful primer on the employment of effective off color language. (Hat tip to Tommy Tanaka.)

• Response to Elizabeth’s Little Blog

  03.03.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I saw in my comments section yesterday that Elizabeth’s Little Blog has posted a response to a post I made, “Christianity without Christ,” about a year and a half ago.
  Elizabeth correctly points out that there have been multiple Christianities over the years, a fact that scholars have been pointing out especially over the […]

• Shuffling my bumper stickers

  03.03.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I have a four bumper sticker limit. This is because several years ago I heard someone say that having a lot of bumper stickers was a great way to limit the size of your potential circle of friends.
  So yesterday my third bumper sticker—a picture of Bush next to the words “DARN GOOD […]

• morality, sleep

  Better sleep means better person

  03.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A new study suggests our scruples don’t work so well when we’re sleep deprived.

• Happy Jesus Birthday to Me!

  03.01.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  When Jesus was my age, he rode triumphantly into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, ran the tax collectors out of the Temple, celebrated his last Seder with his disciples, and got arrested, beaten and crucified.
  So it should be an interesting year. I’ll be keeping a close eye on you all around Holy […]

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