Ken Silva Is A Great Watch Dog.

We’ve got 2 new blogger awards that I’m announcing here . . . FIRST, the CYBER WATCH-DOG BLOGGER AWARD. After Ken Silva combed through my comments and found me using the word “shit” (read to the bottom of his last post), he has further pointed out the error of my ways. Ken is a great example of what a blogger should be. Using an interesting medium to call into question and place checks and balances on the rampant power surge by those at the top. Who I am self-declaring is me.

Because of his careful, watchful, and discerning eye . . . Ken is the first winner of this award. For someone who truly knows that the Lord (pronounced Laaaard) wants us to take ourselves seriously at all times . . . I raise my keg of beer, my communist flag, and my red letter bible and solute you. Congratulations Ken!

SECOND, the Emergent Of The Week That Is Going To A Literal Hell Award. For this award I would like to proudly nominate my friends Nick, Adam, & Tony. Congratulations guys!

Watashi Wa!

Random Links.

Our podcast got transcribed from one of Slice of Laodicea and Ingrid’s henchmen. Ken Silva does a nice job of slamming us. Thanks for the link Ken!

Some beautiful reflections on Buy Nothing Day, our shared contradictions, and fashion among other things.

New podcast up with my personal friend Ed Stetzer, from my old Southern Baptist days.

Rudy Giuliani makes an excellent point (ht: Cindy Bryan). I only wish he didn’t want to resort to the same tactics that we’ve always used to resolve those struggles. Excerpt below . . .

I get very, very frustrated when I . . . hear certain Americans talk about how difficult the problems we face are, how overwhelming they are, what a dangerous era we live in. I think we’ve lost perspective. We’ve always had difficult problems, we’ve always had great challenges, and we’ve always lived in danger.

Do we think our parents and our grandparents and our great grandparents didn’t live in danger and didn’t have difficult problems? Do we think the Second World War was less difficult that our struggle with Islamic terrorism? Do we think that the Great Depression was a less difficult economic struggle for people to face than the struggles we’re facing now? Have we entirely lost perspective of the great challenges America has faced in the past and has been able to overcome and overcome brilliantly? I think sometimes we have lost that perspective.

Do you know what leadership is all about? Leadership is all about restoring that perspective that this country is truly an exceptional country that has great things that it is going to accomplish in the future that will be as great and maybe even greater than the ones we’ve accomplished in the past. If we can’t do that, shame on us.