People

There's none righteous.  No, not one.  Not my words.  God, through the heart, mind, and hand of Paul, made that plain.  The reality of the daily newspaper bears it out.  A few thoughts on a few folks making a name for themselves of late.

• Tiger Woods.  Power.  Money.  Fame.  Talent.  None of which sets a person outside the bounds of law or morality.  How often, though, when so much comes to one so young or so old, that they succomb to the lies and the enticements of the serpent.  I cannot cast the first stone, but that in no way excuses or condones his egregious conduct.  It just reminds me of the inkly blackness of my own heart and the pristine grace of a God who's offered himself on my behalf.

• Chris Matthews.  My respect for his journalistic insight has diminished exponentially since Barack Obama's election because he is unashamed in his bias.  Last night, in trying to make a point about the conservative nature of the military, Matthews suggested that the President, in choosing to give this speech at Westpoint, the US Military Academy, had entered the "enemy camp."  Charming (watch it here).

UPDATE:  Since originally posting Matthews original comment, he went on air last night and began with one of the most sincere apologies I have ever seen from one in the public eye.  He need not apologize for leftist political views.  He needn't even apologize for pretending they are journalistic.  But what he said two days ago needed an apology and he did so with a class rarely seen on TV.  Watch it here.

• President Obama.  Nations that make the Russians look conservative have begun to recognize the hollow nature of the President's rhetoric.  Here's a German assessment of our leader's speech.
• Scientists.  Did you know they are human, too?  Did you know that they can be as petty, back-biting, arrogant, deceitful, and hypocritical as you and I?  Do you think we might stop treating them as deity heretofore in the wake of Climategate?  I hope so.  SUVs for all my friends!
• Thomas Sowell.  This from his "Random thoughts on the passing scene" from yesterday (always worth the time...here):

Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara River, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. I don’t know what people think is going to happen when a nation that already sponsors international terrorism has nuclear bombs to give to terrorists around the world.

On that note, here's hoping that the sun rising in the east tomorrow morning is 93 million miles away.