Small Arms Fire
Brett Stephens writes, “A light carbon footprint has become the 21st-century equivalent of sexual abstinence.”
It’s Not Just the Episcopalians, notes GetReligion. “The [Presbyterian General Assembly] voted on a number of controversial statements about Israel and the Palestinians; approved a $2 million war chest to sue congregations seeking to leave; approved a change to one of the PCUSA’s confessions that would remove mention of homosexuality from the church’s confessional documents; voted to rescind thirty years’ worth of church policy on the incompatibility of homosexual behavior and Christian life; and voted to remove language from the church’s constitution requiring ordained ministers, elders and deacons to live in faithfulness in marriage or chastity in singleness.”
Newsflash: Democrats in Uniform. AP writer Nancy Benac bases an entire article on having found one soldier who supports McCain and another who supports Obama. This apparently portends a trend in Benac’s mind away from a military comprised entirely of Republicans. To back up this anecdotal foray, she reports the statistical bombshell that Obama has received $367,000 from people who gave at least $200 and claim to be in the military. Note to Benac: this is not a mutiny. It means Obama has at most 1,635 high-rolling contributors in the military, which comprises a whopping one-tenth of one percent of the 1,368,226 people now serving as active-duty military personnel. Last time I checked, the army doesn’t screen its recruits for party affiliation, and it’s not news that Democrats routinely engage in honorable military service.
My Bad.
Really, if you “drill down,” to use another corporatism, there’s something kind of industrially extractive about “takeaway,” isn’t there? The impulse to reduce everything to a PowerPoint action item? All the most interesting things in life are the things you can’t extract and “take away.”
So, Dude, going forward when you want to explain where’s the beef, better think outside the box to hone your elevator pitch because anything more mission critical is going to receive a thumbs down. Your street cred depends on buzzwords for a takeaway. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
A Carrier for the Times. Check out the U.S.S. William Clinton,
The ship is constructed entirely of recycled aluminum and is completely solar powered with a top speed of 5 knots. It boasts an arsenal of one (unarmed) F14 Tomcat or one (unarmed) F18 Hornet aircraft which, although they cannot be launched or captured on the 100 foot flight deck, form a very menacing presence.
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