Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
December 21, 2007

Orders of magnitude

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

A thought occurred to me today regarding money, one dealing with orders of magnitude.
How much more money would it take to alter the perception of what “a lot” means?
For example, for me $1 is trivial. The next order of magnitude up is $10. Being honest, that’s not what I would consider “a lot”.
$100? Now that’s [...]


November 25, 2007

3 weddings in 6 months

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

The focal point of this past weekend was not, like most of country, Thanksgiving - that was just the appetizer, as it were. Rather, the main focus for the Territorial Brood was the third wedding we’ve attended in the past 6 months.
All three have been “family”-related: the first, my wife’s blood relations, the second, [...]


November 16, 2007

UofM vs tOSU

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

It’s the third weekend in November, which means one thing: the renewal of the best rivalry in college football - Michigan vs. Ohio State!
Funny thing is that my blog traffic bears this out, as I’ve seen an uptick in the amount of traffic. Traffic, it seems, that is being driven by search engines spitting [...]


October 19, 2007

I like this

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

HT: Veith @ Cranach

Krauthammer’s Razor: “In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.”
That’s actually something that I think could apply to most situations, not just those in D.C..
And it is, I think, in line with the 8th Commandment, because generally speaking, [...]