D Logomorphs

Datadiddling:  The digital manipulation of facts. Deatherapy:  The medicalization of murder. Demigraphics: A poorly composed, wretchedly distracting PowerPoint presentation. Demockeracy:  Making a mockery of constitutional freedoms and liberties in the name of constitutional freedoms and liberties. Designosaurs:  Perpetuators of bad, out-dated design. Destinesia: Arriving at a destination but having forgotten why you went in the first place. Dipsomanagerial:  The insatiable, often periodic craving of government …

C Logomorphs

Cacophantasy:  The noisome notions of mindless debauchery that pass for “having a good time” among the young and restless. Celefeign:  Someone who is famous for being famous—a celebrity with no discernable talent. Cleresy:  Religious error perpetrated under the cloak of respectible clerical authority. Codependustry:  The therapeutic industry that has been built up around the specious notions of pop-psychology. Compascism:  Coercive pseudo-compassion—another name for our …

B Logomorphs

Begathon:  Online, Cable TV, or Radio fund-raiser—a guilt and pity party.   Bitnik:  A hyper-hip computer nerd—the postmodern version of a beatnik.   Blandiose:  A grandiose blandness—a seemingly incurable malady that afflicts the minds of politicians on both sides of the aisle.   Blamestorming:  The modern rant of Facebook rants and talk radio call-in shows.   Bloatocratic:  The ever expanding bureaucracy in Washington.   Blockbluster:  The hype …

A Logomorphs

Academentia: The pathogenic moral and intellectual epidemic that currently ravages most politically-correct campuses. Accordionated: Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time. Adhocracy:  The modern tendency to govern on the basis of whim rather than on the basis of law—especially evident in the rulings of federally appointed judicial activists. Affluential: To shamelessly utilize great wealth for personal …

The Hellfire of Edwards

Jonathan Edwards traveled a few miles from his home into western Connecticut and read to a small congregation assembled there the most famous sermon ever delivered in the history of America on this day in 1741.  Entitled Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God, its subject was the immanence of judgment and the horrors of perdition.  It was about what …

Promises, Promises

“His divine power has granted to us all things that we need for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and goodness, by which He has granted to us His very great and precious promises.” (2 Peter 1:3-4)

My Country Tis of Thee

During his long and productive ministry, Samuel Francis Smith composed nearly two hundred hymns. But it is for one he wrote while still in seminary that he was best known. Musician Lowell Mason had asked him to translate some German verses for a song book he was preparing. Among the tunes he handed Smith was a German patriotic hymn, God …

A Proper Multiculturalism

Here is a beautiful example of a proper multiculturalism courtesy of an Orange County Register op-ed piece by Mark Steyn: From 1842 to 1849, General Sir Charles Napier was the Commander of the British Army in India. The Hindu priests had long observed a custom of burning widows alive on their husband’s funeral pyre. The British had already stopped that custom. When the …

The Forgotten Presidents

Who was the first president of the United States? Ask any school child and they will readily tell you “George Washington.” And of course, they would be wrong—at least technically. Washington was not inaugurated until April 30, 1789. And yet, the United States continually had functioning governments from as early as September 5, 1774 and operated as a confederated nation …

Picking Our Battles

“Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.  That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.”  George Eliot