Wittingshire's Bag End

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109447182009-05-22T12:52:17.460-07:00Wittingshire's Bag EndTopical Archives and Various Links for WittingshireAmanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-54414082663451001332004-12-03T15:12:00.000-08:002009-05-22T12:52:17.470-07:00About the Witts

Jonathan Witt, Ph.D., used to be a tenured professor. Instead of buying a sports car for his midlife crisis, he switched careers and now writes (and thinks) for two think tanks. He wrote the screenplays for The Call of the Entrepreneur, Effective Stewardship, and The Birth of Freedom, and co-wrote the screenplay for The Privileged Planet. Now he's working on a documentary about effective

The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-25487469316704572882007-11-14T06:15:00.000-08:002008-06-16T05:05:01.488-07:00Need a Laugh?

Other PeopleTick WarningThings to do at home when you're boredIgudesman and JooBen Wiker on Going RuralJapan and Junior HighE-MASQ8: A Cure for the Common BoySir Gawain and the Green Knight ... sortaHow many five-year-olds could you take in a fight?Can you say these correctly the first time?Cats and Nuclear PhysicistsUsStepping StoneThat one nice lady at churchThe Eel and the SealWeeding the

The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1165351463839073562006-12-05T12:17:00.000-08:002008-02-27T06:00:06.399-08:00Poetry

PoetryCopyright and Fair UsePoetry Tastes GoodSynesthesia: What Color is Saturday?Songs in the Key of LifePoem HunterThe Bard's BirthdayA Poem in Your PocketLimericks, Limericks and Obsolete Skills, Limericks Last Day But One, Limericks Grande FinalePoems Welcoming SpringPoems (some with discussions, some without)AudenGood Company (Baker)Twice Fed (Bassett)Tiger, Tiger (Blake)To My Dear and

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1108866977804047232005-02-19T18:35:00.000-08:002008-02-27T05:56:00.865-08:00Ethics

Human RelationsLove and MarriagePromising and Predicting (Guy Mansini)Choices (and The Devil Wears Prada)McQuilkin on ChoicesLapses in Kindness (Willa Cather)Keeping Vows (P.D. James)Meals Were Nasty, British, and Short (Dalrymple)Restraint (Dalrymple)BarbariansCritics (Fenelon)Telling on Myself: IntoleranceUgly LawsDefining MoralityCan we judge an act by its consequences?Sayers on

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-70602334514411710042008-02-27T05:46:00.001-08:002008-02-27T05:46:39.994-08:00Belief and Unbelief

UnbeliefLosing Our WitsBeing YourselfAtheism: Holding Us AccountableAtheism and PaganismChesterton on Saint FrancisPlayground PhilosophersEscape from Nihilism (J. Budziszewksi)Stumbling in the Dark (The Proclaimers)Across a Dark Sea, the Light (Muggeridge)BatsCelebrities and Christians: Who Isn't Doing Enough?God and Dr. LecterA Former Atheists SpeaksBelief That is how the light gets in (Nouwen

The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1109888950348894612005-03-03T14:23:00.000-08:002008-02-27T05:46:03.543-08:00Life and Death

Life and DeathCows, Cats, and Remembrance of Things PastThe Recurring Dream Reminds MeChildren and EternityDeath's ThresholdWhy Does the Pope Want to Live?SilenceWhatever Happened to Mariane Pearl?The God Who Was ThereIn the Evening Before the Morning . . .Here Be MonstersResurrection DayA Celebration of LifeThe PassingThe Soul of the MatterAn Unusual Honeymoon; What if She Dies?We Are

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1108866620560763752005-02-19T18:29:00.000-08:002007-11-14T06:25:22.371-08:00Home Life and Homeschooling

HomeKingdom ComeOn Boys and BikinisWhat Color is Saturday?Skinning a CatThe Truth About White-Tailed Deer; DeerBrain TeaserThe Cheapest Babysitter in the WorldAn Eight Year Old's HumorModern-Day LonelinessBring Home the Bacon--But to What Home?The Joy of NamingBeing YourselfMy Sister's MessHusbands and Wives, Memory and ImaginationHow to Teach Your Kids Not to SmokeMystic CasseroleGoing RuralLost

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1109887231642029872005-03-03T14:00:00.000-08:002007-02-28T05:22:26.853-08:00Books and Bookishness

BookishnessWhat I Learned From Mr. CarterOn the Perils of Book BingingPut Down That Book!The Company We KeepCopyrightLet the Dead VoteIt Was a Dark and Stormy NightBook of Nature: Banned (links to Jonathan's Touchstone article)E. B. White: The Eloquence of FactsFidelity and Fiction (Lionel Shriver)Book Reviews/DiscussionsIn the Heart of the SeaRichard Selzer's BooksMy Family and Other AnimalsIn

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1108836924750022502005-02-19T10:15:00.000-08:002006-12-05T12:48:00.510-08:00Aesthetics and Art

Aesthetics and EthicsGood Art versus Bad ArtArt and Taboo (Dalrymple)Life is But a Dream: The effect of reductionism on artThe State of PoetrySteiner: The power of fiction; Learning by Heart; Rudimentary Grammar of UnfathomableChristian AestheticsForm and Content: Francis Schaeffer and Philip Yancey on Christian Art1.Is Acting Risky for Actors?2.Acting Revisited3. How Acting Changes the Actor,

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1108836711787580042005-02-19T20:00:00.000-08:002006-06-08T08:36:49.943-07:00Design and Darwinism

What is Intelligent Design?History of intelligent design (both the term and the movement)The positive case for design; ID's empirically testable predictionsFAQ; more FAQBehe Explains ID; Challenge to Behe's Irreducible Complexity ArgumentWhat ID Is and Isn't (Jay Richards)Washington Post on Phillip Johnson, leader of ID movementClarifying Discovery Institute's oft-misrepresented positionWho Sees

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1108838038721832002005-02-19T10:32:00.000-08:002005-05-28T16:59:56.500-07:00Media Discrimination

Standard media practice regarding ID: big hair, big gut, fat butt, holy rolling ...PBS affiliate cancels science program because some of its funders were Christians:On the Banning of DissentPBS Affiliate Discriminates Against ChristiansPrograms Funded By People with OpinionsJonathan's Op-Ed in the Albuquerque JournalAlbuquerque Tribune Covers BanChristians Practicing What They Preach?

Amanda Witthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03348819951196675834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944718.post-1110385462352914572005-03-09T10:30:00.000-08:002005-03-09T10:25:58.546-08:00Books About Intelligent Design

A Good Place to BeginDarwin on Trial(Phillip Johnson), which galvanized the intelligent design movement.The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design(William Dembski). Philosopher and probability theorist Dembski is at the center of the controversy, and has fielded numerous objections. Here he responds to each in series of short chapters that work for

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