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“Biblical” “logic”

06.15.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

“This is a secular state, not a church,” Jeff Sessions told a crowd in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a couple days ago, “and I am a law enforcement officer.”

Amen, brother.

Only…why, at the same event, did he “take a little bit of digression” (see the video, above) and explicitly invoke the Christian Bible as the (shaky) foundation for a (shakier) moral philosophy?

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What I’m reading: Red Sonja

06.11.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

2 volumes of red sonja on a table

Two words: Chainmail bikini.

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A weekend away

06.07.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I spent a couple days in Pacific Grove, near Monterey, to wrap up my end-of-semester reflection.

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“The Paranoid Style”: Déjà vu and something new

06.04.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Trump, Conway, Sanders, and Giuliani

Trump’s endless tweeting , Conway’s epistemological contortionism, Sanders’s snowfake outrage, Giuliani’s media Blitz (Fox isn’t worried…): Is this all déjà vu, or something new?

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Pet peeve: Introductions

05.21.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

"Ugh" written in the margin of an introduction.

I hate introductions.

I know; that first sentence is an introduction. It’s probably inevitable, since every essay has to start somewhere.

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Whence “Oh, ick”?

05.14.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

License Plate that says Oh Ick

I’ve had the same license plate for something like 25 years—on my last five vehicles, at least. OH ICK.

It still sums things up perfectly.

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Lessons from the Skinner box: False metrics and the beginning blogger

05.07.2018 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

My blog is a Skinner box.

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Reflections on my Iceland trip, part 2: Some room for improvement

04.30.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Sunset over the bay

As awesome as my trip to Iceland was—and it was awesome!—I do have a few regrets, things I could have done that would have made this amazing trip even more amazing.

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Reflections on my Iceland trip, part 1: Some good choices

04.23.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Road into the mountains in Iceland

I’m not a great traveler. But Iceland is so consistently beautiful, and its people so consistently kind, that I only needed a few good choices to make the trip amazing.

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Christianity today

04.16.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Money sign with flaming cross as vertical stroke, sporting MAGA hat, over American flag

For the most part, I’m not embarrassed to admit that I used to be Christian. But the white evangelical support for Trump is changing that, and I kind of resent it.

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