J. Timothy King
Bits & Pieces 2012-06-21
Links and things I’ve recently run across. Babylon 5 Fans: How many of these people can you recognize? Bill Mumy is probably best remembered as young Will Robinson on the original Lost in Space, but he’ll always be Lennier to me. Nowadays, he’s pursuing his music career. (You can catch some of Bill Mumy’s music […]
Budgeting is a Love Thang
According to Dave Ramsey, money arguments are the number-one cause of marital strife. Now, I’m not sure where he got that factoid. And I don’t actually know whether it’s true, because marriages—as all relationships—are more complex and nuanced than a single cause. Regardless, it is surely true that money arguments are a leading factor in […]
Twitter vs. the HMO
Posted on Twitter: Sorry for the delay in replies: BP emergency & wrestling with BCBSMA’s Rx system. Making progress tho, and BP under control thx to CVS. My blood pressure had peaked at 158/103. Yes, you read that correctly. I had run out of medication at just about the time my HMO asked me to […]
Don’t Sell the Harlot Short
“I’m not a traitor. I just want to live.” I wrote those words about two years ago. Around this time each year, in synagogue, we read from Joshua chapter 2, the story of Rahab the harlot. It inspired a short-short story, “The Confidant of Jericho,” which concluded with the line above. The story of Rahab […]
No Surprises, Until…
I just received the funniest credit-card offer ever! Ever since my Beloved got us a membership in Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University, I’ve been listening to him way too much. And proof that I’m listening to him way too much is that I’m starting to think of jokes that he might make. And I also […]
Just When You Think You Might Not Be So Out of Touch…
… someone throws you a reminder. The AARP has tried this before, but now they’re getting desperate. They’ve sent me letters inviting me to join their organization. Some mailing-list marketer probably got the idea that since I’m no longer employed by an idiot in an office somewhere, I must have retired. I’m neither old enough […]
Redefining Marriage?
My father over at his blog posted a two-part series on gay marriage. It started as an initial post called “Redefining Marriage,” which proved controversial enough among his theological colleagues that he felt a need to post part 2 to clarify. What follows is in reply to part 1. Same-sex marriage is now a fact […]
How I Ended Up in a Messianic Jewish Synagogue
On Friday, I usually post an attempt at humor. (Some times more effective than others.) Today, however, I thought I’d tell the story of how a Gentile pastor’s kid from western Pennsylvania ended up identifying with a Messianic Jewish synagogue. Firstly, I’m not Jewish. When I was a boy, my father, a pastor, passed on […]
Ideas Having Sex
John Stossel recently published a short piece in The Freeman about ideas having sex. This naturally explains the most lucrative business sector ever seen on the Internet: idea porn. So, when I shared this article on Facebook, and fellow fiction blogger and Star Trek fan Neil Shurley re-shared it, I thought of that Star Trek: […]