Pontificators (non-ecclesiastical),
As you can tell, PAN has a slightly different layout. We now have a website powered by Wordpress.org, which allows us to have absolute sovereignty over the posts, pages, and links, as well as the facile ability to design our own layout, upload our own files, have internal site meters, and control commenting options with more precision.
This fabulous new look in all its minute details and shockingly good taste is all working magnificently, thanks to the hard work of the Executive Technical Editor Mr. Holmes. The Circulation Editor, Miss Roorda, has also worked hard to provide PAN with a tidy system of categories and tags. She emailed both Mr. Holmes and myself, hardly able to restrain her deep emotion, requesting that we emphasize to you, the uneducated mass of contributors, the importance of applying proper categories and tags to your posts. It isn’t too hard to figure out, and this is a simple procedural matter we shall try hard to overlook if you are slightly sloppy (and we’ll send you helpful little reminders if you forget).
A.P. Ahern writes:
(As a new editor of P.A.N., my inaugural post has been some time in coming. An essay sitting in a quiet folder in my hard drive right now was meant to be that post. It is entitled “The Case for Shari’a,” and is exactly what it says. I have attempted to argue — from an American policy and Christian perspective — for the encouragement of Islamic democracies based on Shari’a law.
Ella writes:
I have been making a list of strategies for writing poetry when one is not inspired to do so. I was going to give a beautifully elevated preface to my subject, perhaps in blank verse or even heroic couplets, with lofty conceits and abundant allusion and alliteration; but I changed my mind. I shall omit the preface and begin in medias res.
I think that finding an idea is generally the easier part of writing poetry, but sometimes even that is hard: hence this article. The following list of ideas is, of course, by no means exhaustive, and is given in no particular order.
Philip Hilton pontificates voluminously ad nauseam,
It is a common failure among both pro-choice and pro-life people to denounce (or acclaim) Roe v. Wade as if they were talking about an issue on the Senate floor. The fact is that they are ignorant of the workings of justice. A piece of legislation is different than a piece of judicial interpretation. The two are immeasurably different, and should not be conflated. This essay will define briefly the characteristics of a good judicial decision, distinguishing them from the elements of a good legislative decision, and then will discuss Roe v. Wade in this light. View Full Post
As most of you know, we have been considering purchasing a domain for PAN for some time. This will improve our beloved blog about a thousand fold and give us more credibility so that we can attract more readers, contributors, and interviewees. I have discussed this matter with John Ahern, founder, patron, managing editor, and mascot extraordinaire, and I have put it to him that, as managing editor, it should be his place to fund our beloved publication in this endeavor. Ladies and gentlemen, to my great surprise, he has enthusiastically agreed to shell out the dough. Please let’s let him hear our thanks and praise for his generosity in this matter, and we will keep you informed as to when we will begin the adjustment from homely blog to internet publication.
Nick
Hannah Roorda writes:
John Richard is sixteen today!
Sing jibbalee-loo, and jibbalee-lay.
Bring him a robe and prepare a tea tray!
Sing jibbalee-loo, and jibbalee-lay.
Sing tooraloo-raloo-ralay,
John Richard is sixteen today.
John Richard is sixteen today!
Sing jibbalee-loo, and jibbalee-lay.
We’ll all celebrate in an elaborate way!
Sing jibbalee-loo, and jibbalee-lay.
Sing tooraloo-raloo-ralay,
John Richard is sixteen today.
