Profound: October 2007 Archives

Jackson Free Press: [Editor's Note] Good Times with Recio & the Gang

In a comment on another story about Jackson, Miss., Mayor Frank Melton, reporter Donna Ladd posts this excellent quote: "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

Dallas Observer Blog: How Jesus Found Dawn Eden Goldstein

"I realized that the first kind of rebellion, Chesterton was saying [in The Man Who Was Thursday], was the false rebellion, and the second kind was the true rebellion. And Chesterton thought the true rebellion was Christian. Reading that and realizing that I myself had gone through life identifying with the anarchists, the false rebels, I felt like a poseur. At the same time, I couldn't quite reconcile it -- I could see that Chesterton was an exciting writer, and I really wanted to side with him, but I couldn't imagine Christians being as exciting as he made them out to be ... I just thought Christians were this faceless, white-bread Moral Majority mass who ruled the world. And I thought that the only way I could be an individual and a rebel was to rebel against them."

Macleans.ca: Mark Steyn: The 'cold civil war' in the U.S.

"Life is good, food is plentiful, there are a million and one distractions. In advanced democracies, politics is not everything, and we get on with our lives. In a sense, we outsource politics to those who want it most and participate albeit fitfully in whatever parameters of discourse emerge." (Via Alarming News.)