on protection

So many conversations lately have centered on the conflict of involvement in and avoidance of government, and the type of government created by either response.  The recent WikiLeaks publicity has prompted an even more visceral response to "invasions of privacy" and alleged conspiracy.  I'm somewhat privileged in such conversations; as a non-citizen, I'm allowed to comment at-a-distance, scrutinize, support and remain skeptical without any real need to actually take a side.  I can align myself with Republicans or Democrats, with the Tea Party movement or Constitution Party, but at the end of the day I'm not beholden to any real view, and I can redact any strong opinion without any consequences, because my vote wouldn't matter in such cases anyway.  I can criticize whatever government strategy I want, and my statements don't need to fit a certain ideological mold.  

Augustinian restlessness

It was around this time last year that I was working on a presentation of C. S. Lewis' Perelandra, that great work on restlessness and homelessness and supernatural identity.

This article has come just in time.

Someone who flips you off from a moving car is a placeless coward

Read THIS now.

And I mean NOW.