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Voting as a Power Trip

Jim Quinn on the Mother of All Bubbles, or, Why We Should Never Trust Bernanke

AAPS on Free-Market Healthcare

The FTC’s Thuggish Mistreatment of Whole Foods

A Report From Palestine

New Zealand Uses ‘Human Rights’ as Cover For Repression

Britain Uncomfortable With Govt Healthcare, Pelosi Hides From Social Security Facts, We Fund the Taliban?

Henry Giroux on Why Libertarians are Idiots

Creator-Endorsed Mark:  A Legally Enforceable Alternative To Copyright

Government Intervention Prevents Oil Spill Clean-Up, Chavez Plunders Capitalists While Calling Them Thieves, New York Hotels Try to Legally Ban Craigslist

Why Might a Christian Listen to Glen Beck?

Faces of Insanity:  Paul Krugman Accuses Obama of Under-Spending and the EU Bans Dozens of Eggs

Justice Stephen Breyer, Orwellian Newspeaker

The Hidden Social Security Deficit

Greece Takes a Step in the Right Direction

The Taser:  Why We Can’t Trust Government Kindness

160,000,000 Pounds of Rotting Food:  What Price Ceilings Have Wrought

Saving AIDS Patients or Saving Squirrels:  The Calculation Problem

Pro-Life Libertarianism

On the Spanish Debt Crisis

Hillary Clinton Blames the Evil Rich for Unemployment

To the Good People of Arizona

Yeah, About Those Hutaree . . .

Ubuntu:  A Practical Step Away from Copyright Regs

Gordon Gee, Robert Crusnoe, and that Pesky ‘Qui Bono’ Question

Disguising Theocracy:  Kerby Anderson Vainly Attempts Constructing a Biblical Statism

Hissa Hillal:  Brave Mother Takes on Islamic Statism

Stop!  Don’t Sell That Goldfish!

Diego Bartolome, Ten Year-Old Entrepreneur:  A Case Study in Bureaucratic Oppression

Paul Krugman and Sinophobia

Did the Fed Avert a Second Great Depression?

Austrian Economics Reaches the Nation of Turkey

Mises on Left-Wing and Right-Wing Labels

Licenses and Surveillance for Dog Owners

George Orwell and ‘Bipartisanship’

Statism and Homeschooling in Germany

The Government Thinks it’s in Charge of Football Playoffs

Judaism, Christianity, and Moneylending

World War II and Cutting Government Spending

On Climate Change and the UN’s IPCC

More on that State of the Union Address

On Obama’s State of the Union Address

At the very top of the right-hand column is three lines of text, the top one entitled “RSS links.” Below it are two blogs designed for use with RSS feeds.  Those allow you to receive the latest articles from your favorite websites in one place.  If you want to know more about RSS, click here.  I’d be honored if you chose to add me to your feed reader.  If you don’t want to deal with that, I’d be honored if you’d stop by fontwords.com every once in a while.  And as always, I welcome your thoughts.

Next, there are two lines of text, the top being the word Search and below it a box.  If you click on a box and type in a phrase or word, and then hit the “enter” button on your keyboard, you will get all the different posts where I use that phrase or word.  This is useful, if, for example, you want to know what I think about abortion, or the gold standard.  It’s also really useful if you read an article before and want to find it again, but you don’t remember what it was called.  All you have to do is enter a phrase you remember being used in the article, and bam! the article will appear.

The third thing on the right-hand side of this website is the “Categories” bar.  If you click on the down-facing triangle under the word Categories, you will find a long list of categories, and next to each category and number in parentheses () indicating how many posts are in that category.  Clicking on the category will take you to the collection of posts.

The fourth thing is a whole bunch of words of different sizes.  Clicking on any of those words will lead to a list of all the posts which address that particular topic.  And just looking over the collection of words will give you a somewhat inaccurate, but still useful, idea of what topics I like to address most.

The fourth thing is a list of pages which are semi-permanent parts of the website, distinct from posts, which address particular issue I felt were somehow central to my website’s objectives.  Generally they are self-explanatory.

Then, fifth, there is an Archives drop-down, much like the Categories drop-down, except it groups everything I’ve written by month.

Sixth is a list called a Blogroll, which is a list of links to other websites I find worthwhile.  Clicking on any of them will take you away from my site and to another site by another person which I enjoy reading.

Seventh, there’s a Meta section.  Don’t worry about it.  That’s for me.

Lately I’ve been squeezing out a lot of posts.  Several per day.  And that in itself is, I hope, not a bad thing.  The dialogue has been fascinating, and writing down thoughts has forced me to think in a more organized fashion.

However.

I am on a fixed allowance of time.  Twenty-four hours per day.  And to constantly think and read and read and think for hour after hour about the topics which I enjoy discussing on the blog seriously cuts into the amount of time I have for other things.  Like study.  Like hanging out with people.  Like sleep.

Especially with study.  Although I think I’ll turn out with good grades in my classes at the end of this quarter, I would have liked to have spent more time on them and less in the whole blogging process, now that I look back on the quarter.  And as my first Hebrew course will be coming up in a few short weeks as I begin the work for my Hebrew major which I hope will help me to get more of an inside look at the Hebrew OT, Ancient Near Eastern History, etc. ;  I don’t want to look back at the end of those 3 1/3 years of Hebrew study and wonder where the time went.

Because this Hebrew thing, I want this.

What this means is that the blogging is going to take a  back seat.  What that means I do not know exactly at the moment (and at this moment is 3:36 AM).  Perhaps it will mean 1 post a week, perhaps less, perhaps more.  But there will be no mistaking the fact that posts here are going to be less frequent.  I’ll still try to keep up with comments and emails, but I’m cutting off my RSS feed so I’ll no longer be keeping track of everyone else’s posts unless someone notifies me personally about a specific post they’d like me to look at.

So I’m retiring from the enjoyable but distracting world of biblioblogging.  I still intend to show up and do a little volunteer work off and on, but don’t expect the sort of constant posting on a variety of topics to come back, at least for a while.

I was shocked to find an article I wrote on a completely unrelated topic showing up so on the search. So, um, thanks, Google.

But today I begin something altogether different:  a 3 1/2 – year commitment to studying the Hebrew language formally.  (Wow.  That sounds kind of like something out of the Apocalypse or Daniel.)  I’ve got Weingreen’s little Hebrew grammar, and I’m going to start working through that daily.  In three weeks I’ll start my first Hebrew-related classes:  Hebrew 101 (Modern) and a class on the history of the Second Commonwealth.  I am ashamed to tell you this, but I do not even know what “Second Commonwealth” refers to, nor could get past “Shalom” in introducing myself to a stranger.

That all begins changing now.  I’ll update you as I progress.