Hither and thither 6/4/10

Here we are yet again, boys and girls, ready to call "wrap" on another week and dart through another weekend. I'm sequestering myself for a literary push - but not before sharing with you a few baubles concocted to amuse, delight, madden and inform you for the next few days.

• BibChr Public Service Announcement for helping swallow bitter pills. Maybe you have problems, more likely your kids do. Here are some tips. The one I have liked best for years, for dry, difficult pills, is using bubbly seltzer waters. Picks it up and gets it right down.
• Another service: I know a lot of people are looking for work. I have a suggestion. Here's how to land a plush offer: run for office against someone Obama backs.
• Longtime reader Candy Webb found a clever parody video titled "We Con the World," about the peaceful flotilla of knives and metal rods.
• Well, sometimes some news gets out.
• Hunh. Lego printer.
• Phil Johnson Tweeted this really interesting, fun video featuring a gent who owns a store in Los Angeles specializing in sodas of all varieties. Pleasure to watch; I want to go there.
• Speaking of Phil — future conquests?
• One last Phil note: he'll be guest-hosting Wretched Radio today, 12-2pm PT. For once, Phil gets to be his own guest!
• Now back to beverages, reader Berry Davis spotted an instructive video on how to make root beer.
• Well, whoever said that doe-eyed optimism isn't still alive and well in America? Here's a man (Peter Ferrera) who argues at length that Obama will be forced to resign before his term is complete. In the couse, he makes this acerbic but correct observation: "Presently, one reason to vote Republican for President is that Republican Presidents are subject to the rule of law, but Democrat Presidents are not."
• What do I think? I think (A) all his reasons are sound, but (B) nothing short of conversion would get Obama out of that office voluntarily. The author does not factor in his towering, meta-Clintonian arrogance.
• I knew a fellow who worked with a Search and Rescue team in a hilly area with a massive, muddy lake. On some unhappy occasions, divers had to search waters for drowned boaters. One fellow, as he searched, ran his hand along this massive, submerged log — and then the log moved! He quit. Maybe the "log" was something like this.
• On Mike Leake's blog, you have a chance to win a copy of The Trellis and the Vine.
• Tullian Tchqjncingoiqoflpmxpn has a thought-provoking post on the Law and the Gospel. He says there is only Gospel and legalism — not legalism and lawlessness.
• IT nerd does barbecue:

• In January I gave you a heads up on a cool voice-recognition app for iPhone called Dragon Dictation. As a follow-up, I found a page spelling out the vocal cues for punctuation and signs.
• Christians who voted for Obama: your president calls on you to celebrate National Glory In Their Shame Month.
• Well, he called it something else.
• When Justin Taylor, excellent brother that he is, quoted George Will with approval as the latter raised his pinkie and sniffed a lofty sneer at "populism" (read: Sarah Palin), your correspondent mused aloud, "A far greater mystery than Sarah Palin’s popularity is the question of why any principled conservative finds the ever-prissy Mr. Will persuasive. Really." Brother Taylor found the ad hominem to be "beneath" me. There's some irony in that response, but I bring it up to note that now Will has signed on for homosexuals in the military, and offers the somber assessment that Congressmen (and, by inference, the rest of us) who dare to oppose  are "not being very intelligent." Well, there y'go. That settles that.
• Al Mohler dwells on some of the nightmarish implications of yet another forced normalization of perversion. Oh well, I guess he's "not being very intelligent," eh?
• Pause and reflect: some Christians voted for Obama, and are still in denial about the gravity of their error. Wonder what it'll take, don't you?
• Fred Butler has helpfully amassed links to his own articles bringing the Bible to bear on the topic of homosexuality.
• Okay, now we come to Reason #47289 Why We Homeschool: pooled perversity. Warning: it's an ugly story. Many lines beg to be quoted. Please don't. Here.
• The Proverbs 13:20 Effect, I call it.
• Did you know that the Cookie Monster was created for an IBM ad? And that he had teeth?
• Tipper and Al Gore separate! Bush to blame!
• I'm guessing... government reeducation center student.

• Ted Haggard's big surprising announcement is that he's starting a church, and he apparently isn't so big on what the Bible says about homosexuality.
• Surprise!
• When is it OK with the MSM for you to be a politician and claim that Jesus guides your public policy? Simple: when (A) you're a Democrat, and (B) the claim means nothing, at best. See Nancy Pelosi do terrible things to John 1. (Thanks to reader Joel Griffith for that link.) And don't forget the reality of her policies.
• Reader Ralph Traylor found a great way to plug the oil leak (click to enlarge):

• Suppose you did something so stup... er, unwise, that every time you told anyone about it they stared at you like you were a complete idiot. What do you think you'd do then? I know! File a lawsuit blaming someone else for it, so that the whole world will know about you!
• Just a reminder: Father's Day is coming up.
• Another reminder that big bad tough-talking liberals' assault on religion is highly selective. Among many quotables: "The producers at Comedy Central know one seminal fact: They can mock Jesus all they want - no Christian jihadist is going to blow them up. It is easy - and safe - to take pathetic potshots at Christ."
• Olive Tree Software is having a substantial sale until June 14.
• A new entry in the fabled History of Bad, Bad Ideas:

• Reader Julie Garrett shares with us... the Chunky Bible. Do we thank her?