So Many Links (24 June 2009)

Become a blackbelt in Gmail.

Soviet album covers.

Why Kinkade is a sellout (and why he is actually capable of producing good art).

Shakespeare was a Christian?

Creepy mountain bike trail of the day.

CT article on Iron and Wine's Sam Beam.

What is Evil (and how do you understand it theologically and personally)?

Word of the day: Ebullient.

1. Thousands of miles are not enough to stop sin.
2. Innocence always precedes sin.
3. Republicans and Democrats and Ballerinas and Car Salesmen and EVERYBODY is sinful, wants to sin and, given the opportunity, will sin.
4. Jesus died for Gov. Sanford too, and he knows it.
5. He, accordingly, deserves our forgiveness: