In a word- or perhaps a few words- he has too much money and no sense at all.  Seriously friends, who in their right mind pays a total of $80,000 for prostitutes when one could buy a good 4 or 5 books from E.J. Brill?!?!?!  We all know what we would do with disposable income in the $80K range.  And it has nothing to do with booty and everything to do with booky.

So I say, shame on Spitzer for wasting money on nastified skankiness when he could have donated $10,000 to each of the seven sacred blogs and still had $10,000 to buy his wife something nice.

When Beth Newman writes, in part

You can’t have love without truth. The kind of love that Paul refers to is grounded in and made possible by a particular way of life. Such a way is centered on the faithful worship of God in Christ through the Spirit. Love and truth are not our possessions to be coercively defended but gifts to be received and graciously shared. Our task as disciples on the way is not the creation of unity among Christians where none presently exists, nor it is to re-create a unity that has been lost. Rather, as Brian Daley, S.J., notes, it is “to allow the unity that already exists among us as God’s gift, and is hindered or clouded by our sinfulness and ‘slowness of heart’ (Luke 24:25), to become more fully evident in the way Christians look upon each other, articulate their faith, carry out their worship, and act in the world.”

Read the whole essay and don’t miss a line of it. In our ‘we must all get along’ emergent tending nonsense age, it’s an important corrective.

Peter Kirk has ‘tagged‘ me as a participant in the presently ongoing ‘I hate Zwingli and am going to burn in hell for all eternity‘ meme.  Earlier participants in this cat inspired, hell bent, perversely depraved vile exercise in wretched foul futility include Doug ‘the Anglican’ Chaplin (cousin of Charlie); Nick ‘the Rapper‘ Norelli; and Chris ‘my former friend and now mortal enemy‘ Tilling.

The purpose of the meme is twofold- to say something vile about Zwingli; and to tag someone other than yours truly.  I will deal the death knell to this evil meme by refusing to do both!  The chain letter dies here.  If further bibliobloggers continue the malicious salaciousness, I will forthwith remove them from all relevant blogrolls and lists in heaven.

You’ve been warned…..  No mean mention of Zwingli is any longer allowed on or off line.  Anyone violating this rule will suffer the punishment of a Papish hell and be tied up with Ratzinger in purgatory beforehand for 80 billion years.

Young ‘ladies’ are experiencing a plague of STD’s. WBIR reports

At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease. That’s according to a new study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in girls age 14 to 19. The highest overall prevalence is among black girls. Nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. Among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the rate was 20 percent.

As Katie rightly suggests- it’s time to tell the boys that it ain’t all flowers and fun.

UNCG’s website announces

Biblical scholar Dr. Richard Friedman will discuss “Before the Apple: What Was Life Like Before the Events in Eden?” Sunday, April 13, at UNCG. Friedman, who is professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at San Diego, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Elliott University Center Auditorium. His presentation will mark the 8th in UNCG’s annual Henry Samuel Levinson Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public; a reception will follow. Free parking will be available in the Walker Avenue Deck.

Boy I hope the title of the lecture doesn’t indicate Friedman’s real thoughts on the subject. “Apple”? Sounds like someone’s been reading Milton instead of the Bible. And, while I’m at it, I sure hope he is not going to be offering some imagined historical reconstruction. That would just make it all way too bizarre.

So, if you attend- do tell.

AFP reports

Hello Kitty, the Japanese cartoon figure popular with teenagers around the world, was used by a notorious Colombian drug lord to hide messages to his minions, according to a report Monday.

If cartoon cats are doing that, just imagine what the real servants of satan are doing! Smuggling and selling drugs is next on their agenda. In order to destroy humanity. I’ve warned you before about cats and their evil plans. When they bring about the apocalypse I don’t want to hear a single complaint about “oh how could we have ever known….” “Awake, oh sleeper!”

Folk may be interested in some of the new essays in ZNW:

Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und Kunde der Älteren Kirche — 99.1 (200

Eva in Röm 7 — Stefan Krauter

Christus, des Gesetzes Ende? Die Theologie des Apostels Paulus in kritischer Perspektive — Eduard Lohse

God’s Execution of His Condemned Apostles. Paul’s Imagery of the Roman Arena in 1 Cor 4,9 — V. Henry T. Nguyen

Affirming the “Creed”: The Extent of Paul’s Citation of an Early Christian Formula in 1 Cor 15,3b–7 — David M. Moffitt

From Apostle to the Gentiles to Apostle of the Church: Images of Paul at the End of the First Century — Gregory E. Sterling

»Das (Buch) nach Philippus«. Zur Titelnachschrift Nag Hammadi Codex II,3: p. 86,18–19 — Peter Nagel

The Name of the Pool in Joh 5,2. A Text-Critical Note Concerning 3Q15 –Reinhart Ceulemans

Der Apostel von Johannes 13,16 — Luise Abramowski

Abraham, the friend of God, in Rom 5. A Short Notice — Karl Olav Sandnes

“They Promise Them Freedom”. Once again, the ψευδοδιδάσκλοι in 2 Peter — Thomas Scott Caulley

Erste internationale Konferenz »Der Apostel Paulus und Korinth«. 1950 Jahre nach der Abfassung der Korintherbriefe (Korinth, 23–25 September 2007) — Christos Karakolis

Is, without question, Zwingli’s virtually unknown commentary on Jeremiah. Published on the 11th of March in 1531, exactly seven months to the day before Zwingli’s murder at Kappel-am-Albis. The Complanationis Jeremiae prophetae appeared in an edition of 200 folio pages by the Zurich printer Froschauer. It opens with a preface to the reader and then follows a fresh translation in Latin by Zwingli and then a verse by verse explanation of the Hebrew text- in Latin. Leo Jud helped out as did other members of the famed Zurich ‘Prophezei‘. It’s the finest commentary you’ve never read.