The debate about women in the military and what capacity they should serve was reignited recently with Tucker Carlson taking [virtual] flak for comments he made on the subject. Speaking two days earlier at a press conference (relevant comments begin at 14:35), President Biden stated that the Defense Department was “creating maternity flight suits” and developing body… Read More Battle for the sexes
At the opening of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” author Douglas Adams’ wrote “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states… Read More Out of Control
The Education Department in California has proposed chanting the name of an Aztec god, as part of an ethnic studies curriculum. Tezkatlipoka was a god who was honored with human sacrifice. If you say his name thrice, will he appear? Los Angeles teachers have been advised not to post vacation pictures to social media over spring… Read More Dead religion
Upheaval is all around us. A messy dark age of misinformation, distraction, and willfulness dominates us. Civilization trembles. Impregnable institutions collapse while power brokers ride the waves at a mad pace. In the midst of all this, for anything still trying to call itself a “church,” it is a terrifying time to be in business,… Read More Don’t change
SnapChat, Facebook and other apps have voiced concern over upcoming changes in Apple’s iOS. Apple is going to require that users actively “opt in” to tracking on its devices. Facebook, etc., say the changes threaten their business. Although it looks like Apple is just doing the right thing, MDM blog has noted that what Apple gives with the right hand, it takes with the left. Using the language of “tracking”… Read More Opt out
While we rarely feel the need to report on celebrities here at Mad Mondays, we thought this story would be of interest to Mad Christians. Actress Sofia Vegara and ex-fiancé Nick Loeb have been battling it out for a while now. Not over a house or furniture or a book deal, but rather over embryos. The pair… Read More Everything is wrong with this picture
Eating meat is clearly “Western privilege”: Microsoft’s gajillionaire founder, Bill Gates, has said rich countries should be eating synthetic beef because: climate change. Meanwhile, a California start up hopes to make meat from thin air.” According to many critics, Western billionaires do not make the best farmers.” While Bill and Melinda Gates have been in the spotlight recently for buying… Read More Cattle on a thousand hills
Author and former CIA analyst, Martin Gurri, has a lot of interesting thoughts on our current moment. His 2014 book, “The Revolt of the Public,” examined the impact of the information “tsunami” that has engulfed the world through the last decade. He argues that prior to the internet, elites held control over the masses by… Read More The tide has turned
Concordia Portland’s outgoing Schlimpert has a long of history of looking the other way. The same week that the House passed the baby-sacrificing “Equality Act,” further entrenching groundwork for trans-education coming soon in a preschool near you, Charles Schlimpert, retiring President of now-liquidating Concordia University, Portland, (one of several Universities of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod… Read More Sex. Drugs. And CU Portland.
By some accounts, President Biden’s recent townhall was a little bit lackluster. To the dismay of many, the President fumbled a question regarding the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in that country. While former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, made a credible case that the despicable campaign against the people group amounted to a… Read More Different strokes
