Web Safari

I love how some weeks I have to go around hunting for a bunch of interesting links, and some weeks I have way more than I need. This week they were all here waiting for me when I got around to finishing the post.

1. A mother of an 11-year old daughter writes an account of the horrors and joys of back to school clothes shopping.

2. The Diet Fork

3. An interesting conversation about the Bible and idolatry.

4. Always wondering about the correct table settings? Wonder no more!

5. My friend Nettie is going to be doing an apprenticeship with InnerChange starting in late September. Check it out. If you'd like to support Nettie, leave a comment or send me and email and I'll hook you up.

6. Is there such a thing as a FairTax? On just a glance, the FairTax appears to do away with all income taxes and put in place Federal sales taxes. There is a long list of exemptions and a rebate program for "necessesities" so that people under the poverty line would never have to pay any taxes in. I have to wonder if this would really work. I also think that there is a baseline assumption with the FairTax that no amount of taxation will curb American consumption and consumer spending noticeably. (Which may very well be a correct assumption on the average.)

7. The Internet Monk has a great post about Post-Evangelicals and Catholic Spirituality

8. The online art gallery of Edward B. Gordon, a German artist. Also, his blog.

9. And for those of you who know who Joel Osteen is, but have no desire to read his book, here's an inside look at the "Your Best Life Now" board game. I think the scariest part is that apparently they encourage the small groups at Osteen's church to play this game. Maybe they should try, oh, I dunno...Bible reading?!?

10. And apparently there are a lot of people in France that don't know what that thing is in space that orbits the Earth.