Blogspotting Bonus

Happy birthday to me. Today I turn 52. I'll probably take most of the day off.

Sean Higgins warned everyone that I was going to raise a ruckus. Now he encourages people to read Joost Nixon. Dr. Andrew Jackson says I need to be at the big blogging convention at Biola in October, or else. Why would I want to be at a convention where the dress code calls for pajamas?

• Patrick Lacson warns that my posts tend to make him regurgitate.
  
• Harry Seabrook thinks he's no white supremacist just because he knows heaven won't be populated exclusively by whites. I still think his blog—and the snide racial slurs he sullies it with on a near-daily basis—are appalling.
  
• Rob Wilkerson finds an old friend thanks to a link from here. (He also does an impressive job of rendering "PyroManiac" in living color.)
  
• Rebecca Stark is likewise reunited with an old lost friend who found her linked here. That probably gives PyroManiac a better track record than Classmates.Com.
  
• Jacob Hantla struggles to understand why I would post critical comments about an evangelical bestseller, and reminds us to "Let [our] speech always be gracious seasoned with salt." Good feedback.
  
• Steve Camp, who has voiced similar concerns, says he is grateful for my restraint, and he has some very kind words of encouragement for me.
  
• Rae Whitlock feels validated now.
  
• Darren of Nicene Theology, who is currently studying the atonement and reading Robert Shank, appreciates my smack-down of ugly Calvinists.
  
• Tim Bayly, who is himself a most excellent dude, thinks the name of my blog is totally non-heinous.
  
• Michael D. Bates, posting from my own hometown, adds me to his blogroll and recommends my websites. Thanks, and say hi to Tulsa for me.
  
• Tim Challies kindly gives me a category all my own, apart from those who are famous or merely contentious. Uh, Tim—the word you were groping for is disturbing.

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