Ed and Ai

Education is 100% replacable by Al if education is understood as downloading information. In fact, it can probably do that job much better.

But if education is fundamentally about formation, the cultivation of the right affections, a deep love of God, family, and country, and a relentless pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, Al doesn’t stand a chance. Only inspirational teachers, can do that.

Tate

Coffee Joke

Why did the coffee file a police report?

It got mugged.

Gamer Joke

What kind of dough does a gamer use?

Nintendough

Everything

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

A.W. Tozer

DP

Thoughts on the death penalty

I read about a Tennessee woman who is on the verge of being executed for a grisly murder she committed when she was 18. She is now 50. The legal process has taken 32 years. 30 of that is since her conviction and sentence.

This is cruel and unusual to everyone. I know this because I lived through a similar case, albeit as a friend and not as a family member.

My across-the-street neighbor, who I will call by his initials MM, was murdered in Houston on April 11, 1975. My wife was seven months pregnant with our first child when MM was killed.

He was my friend. His parents were best friends with my parents.

He was tried three separate times. And the death penalty was imposed on each occasion.

His date from that murderous evening survived a gun shot and an attempt to drown her. She had to testify again and again.

MM’s parents had to go through agony again and again.

The third conviction was again overturned.

The perpetrator died in jail of natural causes on November 10, 2010 awaiting his fourth trial.

By the time the murderer died, I was a grandfather. My oldest grandchild was 11 years old.

He lived a life both awaiting and avoiding death.

MM’s family had it far worse. The young woman, the second victim had to relive the horror unimaginably.

Justice delayed is not only justice denied, it perpetuates unjust and cruel heartache.

There were legally sufficient grounds for reversals. But a proper sense of urgency would restrict a cycle to two years at most. Four trials and appeals should be eight years maximum.

No one should be on death row for 30 plus years. It is cruel to the defendant. It is infinitely more cruel to the victim’s family.

The judiciary needs to clean up its procedures so that resolution of these cases is placed on an irrevocable path to a speedy conclusion.

The pain is too great to prolong. We can and must do better.-Farris

Paper Joke

Did you hear about the paper joke?

Nevermind.

It was tearable.

Piggy Joke

What do you call a pig that knows

Karate?

A pork chop!

Garbage Truck Joke

What has four wheels and flies?

War on the Sabbath

Among the laws of God none is so hated as the thought that God requires believers to give of their time to worship him and to turn from worldly pursuits. In recent years many have leveled an unrelenting attack upon the Fourth Commandment. The Presbyterian pastor and Bible commentator Albert Barnes once wrote, “There is a state of things in this land that is tending to obliterate the Sabbath altogether. The Sabbath has more enemies in this land than all the other institutions of religion put together. At the same time it is more difficult to meet the enemy here than anywhere else—for we come into conflict not with argument but with interest and pleasure and the love of indulgence and of gain.” We agree with John Bunyan, who said, “A man shall show his heart and life, what they are, more by one Lord’s Day than by all the days of the week besides. To delight ourselves in God’s service upon His Holy Day gives a better proof of a sanctified nature than to grudge at the coming of such days.” Modern man is so addicted to his pleasures, his games, and his entertainment that the thought that he must give them up for twenty-four hours to worship and to delight in God is seen as legalistic bondage. It is a particular grief to see those who profess to love Jesus Christ shrink from turning from their own pleasures. To God’s people, who love His law and meditate upon it to the delight of their blood-bought souls, such a commandment is not bondage, but a precious gift.

Fake Dad Joke

What do you call a fake dad?

A Faux Pas