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One of my ways to enjoy a few minutes of idle time is to see what cheap cars are for sale on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. That or sudoku.

One ad that caught my eye a couple weeks ago wasn’t because it was a great deal necessarily, but because its wording was suspect.

I think they meant that the car would sell quickly and thus the deal would not last long, but I choose to believe they knew the car was about to suffer a major catastrophe and that’s why they’re selling the car. They just want you to think they were bad at writing ad copy, when they were instead disclosing what they knew about the car.

No, I did not go test drive it. Also, the ad is still up 22 days later, for what that’s worth.

Here is a guest post I wrote for SCL back in the day (2011 in case you’re wondering). It wasn’t run because I didn’t actually write a full blog post for Jon, I just sent him an outline of ideas. But I decided to fill it out and present it to you today.

Here is the headline I came up with:
Christians shouldn’t own radar detectors, and other fine points of Romans 13

I don’t really have much to the body of this post, other than to note some things about laws and speeding. But I do remember that a college professor I had said something about the American revolution being un-Christian, because it was rebelling against the established/recognized ruler.

My take on that was that it would have been un-Christian for the leaders of the American revolution, but to the average person in the colonies, maybe not. Because as a citizen of a land, if the old government gets overthrown and a new government is established, you would be within the guidelines to obey the new government. And if your conscience told you to obey the old government until they abdicated their control of your land, that too would be within the guidelines.

But I hope that none of you readers ever has to be in the position to have to make that choice.

And that really strayed off the topic of radar detectors.

Having recently driven through Virginia, I saw a bunch of signs that said “Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft”. And that got me thinking.

I doubt the speed limit is actually enforced by the aircraft. It should say “Vehicle Speed Measured by Aircraft”, or something like that. Because there’s no way the airplane is pulling you over.

Plus, “enforced” sounds a little strict, like they have some way of making you go the speed limit whether you want to or not. I suppose that’s on purpose, as they want you to obey. The sign gave me the mental picture of the aircraft being a military VTOL that would descend and hover right in front of you, with guns very visible to let you know they mean business. That would be enforcement.

Here is a guest post I wrote for SCL back in the day (2011 in case you’re wondering). It wasn’t run because I didn’t actually write a full blog post for Jon, I just sent him an outline of ideas. But I decided to fill it out and present it to you today.

What role should luck have in Christianity? We do see people casting lots, which would seem to us to be a game of chance, but it also a way for God to communicate. Christian broadcasters should announce Stanford’s quarterback as “Andrew Providence” or “Andrew Blessing” rather than “Andrew Luck”.

Similarly, gatherings with food should be called “pot blessings”.

That’s how long ago I wrote that – Andrew Luck was a college player. Since then he has gone into the NFL as a player, retired as a player, and then joined the executive ranks.