Category Archives: Classic iMonk

I Want To Be A Black Man An Essay on Culture Envy by Michael Spencer MY SHIRT, MY HAT, MY BOOKS A TRIP TO THE ZOO MY COUCH, REMOTE, A LARGE COKE YEA I’D GET ON MY KNEES, my GOD, IF I COULD I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING: TO BE YOU… MY JOB, MY CAR, MYContinue reading “I want to be a black man”

The Pope Needs A Business Meeting It was cheaper than the carnival, five times more fun, and every mega-pastor needs one. by Michael Spencer • • • Someone sent me this Rick Warren quote, and it’s buggin’ me. When I write about Rick Warren, I’m usually not taking issue with the content of the guy’sContinue reading “The Pope needs a business meeting”

A Conversation in God’s Kitchen How I’ve learned to understand the Bible by Michael Spencer And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself…They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, whileContinue reading “A Conversation in God’s Kitchen: How I’ve learned to understand the Bible”

A View from the Bench By Steve McFarland “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.” • George Orwell • • • Perhaps Orwell was aContinue reading “A View from the Bench”

Steve McFarland is our correspondent in the public schools, where he actually earns a modest living at taxpayer’s expense. Eric Rigney works in Higher Education. Now that’s funny. And also a drain on the taxpayer. He writes on culture. Bart Campbell is an angry Scot who writes whatever he xxxx well pleases, but earns aContinue reading “A few laughs with the Boar’s Head staff”

Our liberal fellow-citizens have awakened from their slumbers. And like any hibernating bear just rising from a four month nap, these liberals are hungry for some political breakfast. This is not a time to pat them on the nose. Better look for a big stick, because they are in an ornery mood. I’ve bumped intoContinue reading “The Sleeping Bear Awakens”

A Father’s Day Remembrance My Two Dads By Bart Campbell I can’t get a handle on all of the things I would like to write about my dad. You see it is exceptionally difficult to build any type of framework around him, as I have two fathers. There is the father of my childhood, aContinue reading “A Father’s Day Remembrance”

The Democrat argument is simple. Because Ashcroft vigorously opposed the appointment of an African-American as a Federal judge, he is unfit to be attorney general. This argument depends on the public’s general lack of knowledge about Ashcroft’s record, since as a two-term Missouri governor and one-term U.S. Senator, he was not only astonishingly successful byContinue reading “John Ashcroft: The Left’s Pathetic Case for Racism”

Does The Rest of The World Need The Spirit of America? A letter to my daughter Reader: My daughter, Noel Spencer, is away at a special summer program for high school seniors. She is spending five weeks on the campus of Centre College as a “Kentucky Governor’s Scholar.” While visiting her on “Family Day,” weContinue reading “Does The Rest of The World Need The Spirit of America?”

The Little Brothers of Saint Archie Bunker How to argue theology till no one but the cows come home “We didn’t crawl out from under no rocks. We didn’t have no tails. And we didn’t come from monkeys you atheist pinko meathead.” “It ain’t supposed to make sense; it’s faith. Faith is something that youContinue reading “The Little Brothers of Saint Archie Bunker”