Baseball's Opening Day. With the Braves wearing two patches this year, one celebrating the team's 150th season, the other for the All-Star Game, they're honoring Hank Aaron and Phil Niekro by wearing their numbers on the backs of their caps. With the A on the front, New Era logo on the left, All Star logo on the right, and MLB logo, 44, and 35 on the back, I've never seen a MLB cap with so many patches. I kinda like it.
Wednesday: worked from before 8 am to after 5:30. Picked up Pizzeria Lucca for supper. Also salad. Watched a couple of Seinfeld episodes.
Denison: a CNN reporter wrote an article yesterday stating, “It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.” An evolutionary biologist responded: “Observing genitalia is the consensus criteria for determining one’s sex at birth. It is inaccurate only about 0.018% of the time (less than one in 50,000).” The National Review adds: “The concept of ‘assigning’ sex at birth is an invention designed to inculcate new parents into believing a child’s biological sex and gender are sometimes misaligned, and that it would be damaging to merely accept the reality of their biology at birth.” This “post-truth” trajectory is especially on display in the so-called Equality Act, which would elevate other rights at the expense of religious rights. The Wall Street Journal notes “At stake is the freedom of rational human beings to use a common vocabulary when speaking about what all can see. That is why religious freedom is also at stake. Religion is the last bastion of sanity.”
Why? The sexual revolution expresses a worldview that individual freedoms are the highest freedoms. Each person must be free to experience any dimension of reality they wish. Personal beliefs are personal truth. As a result, the commitment to objective truth and values that lies at the heart of the Judeo-Christian worldview is the “last bastion of sanity.”
Max Lucado asks: “Why God doesn’t remove temptation from your life? If he did, you might lean on your strength instead of His grace. A few stumbles might be what you need to convince you that His grace is sufficient for your sin. Why God doesn’t remove the enemies in your life? Perhaps He wants you to love like He loves. Anyone can love a friend, but only a few can love an enemy. Why God doesn’t heal you? Oh, He has healed you. If you are in Christ, you have a perfected soul and will have a perfected body.
Article: punctuation rules to follow, if you want to be taken seriously.
1. Always end a sentence with punctuation.
2. Avoid too many question marks. More than two questions in any one email or text can make the reader feel like they’re being interrogated. Save other questions for a separate email.
3. Avoid exclamation points, no matter how excited you are. Once or twice may be okay in a personal email, but in a professional email avoid exclamation points altogether.
4. Avoid aggressive punctuation. Don’t use two or more question marks.
5. Watch your salutations. If a formal email use a colon (:), if informal a comma will do.
6. Why you should watch your punctuation: emails leave room for interpretation. What you mean to say and what’s inferred may not be the same thing if you’re not careful.
7. Most readers don’t have the attention span to digest long emails or texts, even at work. Keep it short. At most one or two points per email.
8. Never use all caps. It tells the reader you’ve lost your cool, out of control, and are too demanding.
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