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Apple Park: $1 billion gets you no child care, but they'll freeze your kiddos...

This is Apple. After spending $1,000,000,000 on their new headquarters, we find out the campus has no place for children. No nurseries. No childcare. Keep the kids outta here. Keep the kids in the freezer. Keep the women unpregnant. Keep marriage beds sterile.

One Apple Park has no nurseries but they're happy to provide freezers where you can keep children you think you may want to let into this world at some point in the future. They provide freezing services for those kids-in-limbo (they try to lessen the scandal by referring to them as "embryos").

Concerning Apple's desire to freeze employees' children, Ad Age comments:

Let's engineer a way to keep those messy, demanding future humans in suspension.

No one would blame you for wondering if Apple's CEO is gay.


Redeemer's effeminate worship...

Tim Keller's Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City had this for an offertory a couple months ago. My brother David once made the observation that "all the applause at classical concerts is self-congratulatory." Listen to the end of the video.

I just did a post on the gays in the Vatican. Added this post a few minutes later.

My greatest grief is not that Redeemer parades its cultural sophistication during Lord's Day services and the people applaud it. That's what you'd expect Tim Keller to produce in...


How to fix a broom handle...

Went into the garage yesterday and found my push broom broken. Second time. Looking to save money, found this video and I'm stoked. Can't wait to get home and get to work.


So how did Vermeer do it...

(HT to Kelly R.) Fascinating. Vermeer was (merely?) a perfectionist tinkerer. Andrew Henry, meet Tim Jenison. (Actually, though, I'm guessing you already know all about it.) 

If you're an odd man who prefers to read, here's an article.


Donald Trump: the hillbillies' president...

Some of you remember the seventies when Alex Haley helped North American blacks get in touch with their African roots?

Forty years later, my wife Mary Lee is helping me get in touch with my Scots-Irish roots.

I'd taken baby steps a couple years ago by reading Senator Jim Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. Then, a couple months ago after I'd shocked myself by voting for The Donald, Mary Lee cajoled me into reading Richard Davids's The Man Who Moved a Mountain. Finishing that one, she wheedled me into reading J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy (2016).

Remember the Who's "Who Are You?"...


Come to Daddy...


News out of Trump Tower...

The word from Governor Pence is that his transition team has Tim Keller slated for a new cabinet-level position titled Secretary of Human Flourishing.

Isn't that very awesome? I know he can do it, and what a coup for the PCA!

When Russ Moore heard, he got a little snippy for a time, but now he's bounced back.


There is not energy. There is God.

The video is almost a carbon copy of Apple's 1984 ad. Watching it, you feel you should worship. Actually, though, it's not reincarnation, transcendance, or eternal life.

It's just a car.


Grand jury indicts producers of Planned Parenthood videos...

Last week this same grand jury indicted the board of trustees of Washington D.C.'s Holocaust Museum on charges of hate speech. Two weeks ago they indicted the Lincoln Memorial on charges of quoting Scripture and speaking of God's judgment in a public accommodation.

Honestly, I don't get it. Who sleeps in the Lincoln Memorial? I thought they closed it at night?


Drones plus robots...

Drones controlled by robots can fly a pattern precise enough to trim your beard and mustache. A little while and you won't need women to serve communion.

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Ask us your questions...

In a few short months, and a couple of long ones, there's going to be a gathering of old friends at Clearnote Church, Bloomington called the Homecoming. You might think you know everything about Clearnote, but don't be too sure. Take some time to watch the following video and ask us your obvious questions. You can send them here. Jon and Nathan are committed to getting you the not-so-obvious answers to your obvious questions. And, who knows, we may all learn something along the way.


In the city, for the city: the end of tips...

Labor laws have exempted restaurants from paying tipped waitstaff normal minimum wage. Instead they've only had to pay a "tipped minimum" to employees whose tips combined with hourly wages averaged at or above the minimum wage paid other workers. Workers in the back of the restaurant don't share the tips waitstaff receive which has led to a growing disparity between waiters, sommeliers, and bartenders, and back of house staff. Cooks make significantly less than waitstaff, but with changes resulting from the recent minimum wage uprising among fast food workers, it's about to get worse.

The tipped minimum wage currently is $5 and the full minimum is $8.75. Starting in January the state tipped minimum will go up fifty percent, from $5 to $7.50, while the regular minimum wage will go up only twenty-five cents, from $8.75 to $9. With cooks working simply for wages and waitstaff adding tips to wages, the inequality between cooks and waiters will get worse.

This has led New York City restauranteur, Danny Meyer, to announce an end to tipping in the thirteen restaurants...


iOS 9, Obergefell, sweet tea, Jeeves, and ad blocking...

If you aren't reading about it, maybe you should. But then again, maybe not. Ad blocking, that is. Apple's new iOS 9 allows ad blocking which, everyone's saying, will be profoundly disruptive for internet as we know it. I've read some on the subject and get it that Apple, Google, and FB are in a war to the death. Believing in competition, I don't mind. The only hope for education is public school systems having to face competition, but that's the whole point of the Democratic Party—to keep teachers from facing competition for our tax dollars. Everything else about Democrats is window dressing. Take a look at any crowd shots at their national convention and you'll see every last person there is your high school guidance counselor or social studies teacher.

Last night three pastors from three churches and one elder were discussing our policy going forward in the post-Obergefell world and we found ourselves wishing some one state—just one, puhleese!—would refuse to allow homosexual marriage so our people could do destination weddings there. It would sort of be like the old days when people flew to Las Vegas to get married and divorced because Nevada's marriage and divorce laws were so bad. But opposite: this state would host destination wedding because its marriage laws are so good simply by denying SCOTUS's usurpation of "we the people's" Constitution.

True story: back in the first church I served, the Nominating Committee nominated a woman for the eldership...


If HONY became HOP...

Be nice if Brandon took his Humans of New York (HONY) project a couple hours south, to Philly. He could rename his site "HOP." And if he were lucky, he might catch some world-famous Reformed theologian and writer out for an afternoon sashay. (Don't miss the caption and comments.)


Careless about your firewood?


Your grandson's pastor...

That buffet of idolatry, Patheos, just published a respectful hack-job on John Piper and all his male-prerogative-peers. Titled "Beyond Biblical Manhood and Womanhood," it's written by this guest contributor who wants a job preaching to men. Why won't John Piper get her a job?

This is a screenshot of the final couple inches of the piece. When you're done with the picture (go ahead, we'll wait), read the text carefully—all the way to the bottom where she introduces her hash tag links to heresy. Catch it?


Needle droppers at the back of Barnes & Noble...

Chesterton's "giggling excitement over fashion" consumes years of our lives. Thankfully, as you get older you weary of the giggling and get suspicious of the excitement. So my nose began to twitch just now when I saw signs plastered across the windows of Barnes & Noble announcing "We have VINYL!"

Really? Vinyl? You mean all those years we spent slipping sleeves out of album covers and records out of sleeves ever so carefully, and all that belly button fluff we had to take off the needle... 


Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right...

After decades of counselling husbands and wives, this short video provided more of a catharsis than "What About Bob." Almost.