This documentary-for-theatrical-release is creating a lot of buzz. The trailer looks interesting, if not disturbing. RELATED: A rather scary website: The Christian Guide To Small Arms, which includes such gems as: The most useful arm to the Christian warrior is probably the rifle or the carbine. A rifle is a long arm with a rifled (grooved) barrel chambered for a … Read More
Not Fantasy Football
NPR had a story on fantasy football, a craze which is still growing in popularity. I don’t play it, because I don’t follow football that closely, but I know many who do. Apparently the object is to create a football team (which you draft) from real players. Then, based on their playing stats from the previous week’s game, you score … Read More
Didn’t You Kind Of Think It Would End This Way?
Steve Irwin, 44, known to all as the amped-up Crocodile Hunter, died yesterday at the hands of an animal. It wasn’t a crocodile — the animal that Steve often liked to get dangerously close to. He was stung by a stingray. Apparently, there is videotape of him pulling the stingray barb from his chest in his last moments of life. … Read More
“The Scream” Found
Reuters: OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian police recovered "The Scream" and another stolen masterpiece by Edvard Munch on Thursday, two years after the works were seized from a museum by gunmen. "We are 100 percent certain they are the originals," police chief Iver Stensrud told a news conference. "The damage was much less than feared." "The Scream" depicts a terrified figure … Read More
Student Wins First Amendment Case
I don’t know why, but I’m always drawn to First Amendment cases involving public schools. This story warmed my heart: Court Sides With Student In Bush T-Shirt Flap (AP) Vermont schoolboy was within his rights to wear a T-shirt depicting George W. Bush as a chicken and accusing him of being a former alcohol and cocaine abuser, an appeals court … Read More
Darwin Award Nominee
Oh, my: A PRIEST has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water. Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle. But he drowned after walking out to sea from a beach in the capital Libreville in Gabon, west Africa. One eyewitness said: "He told churchgoers he’d had a revelation that if … Read More
The Ten Commandments As The Basis Of Our Law?
Rep. Katherine Harris, the Republican who oversaw the Florida Presidential elections in 2000, and who is now seeking office herself (and failing badly): Asked whether the U.S. should be a secular country, Harris said: "I think that our laws, I mean, I look at how the law originated, even from Moses, the 10 Commandments. And I don’t believe, that uh … Read More
Maybe They Just Shouldn’t Watch
CBS is planning to air the documentary "9/11" on September 10. For those who haven’t seen it (I have), it’s a documentary about a rookie fireman. Or, at least, that’s what it started to be. The two documentarians, a couple of French brothers, were following the story of a rookie fireman in his new ladder company in lower Manhattan. You … Read More
Early American Textbooks
A strange editorial in the Wall Street Journal seems wistful for the days of 200 years ago: In early American public schools, there was no separation between church and state. Tenets of Christianity were embedded in almost every lesson and book, including spelling, reading, history, grammar, arithmetic and science. *** The schoolbooks used by early Americans were supposed to teach … Read More
More Homobigotry from UNC Professor Mike Adams
Seriously, why is this guy still employed? Here’s Mike Adams, professor of criminology at UNC-Wilmington: Several years ago, I began writing columns questioning the so-called gay rights movement. I prefer to call it the “gay privileges” movement because gays are not presently deprived of anything that is rightfully theirs. A gay man has the same right I have to marry … Read More
Improv Everywhere Strikes Again
The date: August 19, 2006 The target: Home Depot’s mega-store in Manhatten The mission: 225 participants (or "agents") entered the Home Depot posing as ordinary customers, scattered throughout the store and then proceeded to shop . . . in slow motion. At a pre-determined time, they all froze for five minutes. The results: Full recounting, with video and photos, here. … Read More
Who’s Sorry Now?
Yeah, Greg at The Talent Show is right… Whaddup with everybody apologizing on YouTube?
Barney & “Friends”
An actual Letter-To-The Editor from The Villiage News (of Fallbrook, CA): On Tuesday, August 8, I took my family out to Daniel’s for groceries. I have a 6-year-old daughter who learned how to read from the Barney and Friends book series. As we stepped out of the family van, she was very excited to see a Barney movie being advertised … Read More
I Don’t Care If She Takes Bong Hits
…or drinks wine; she’s a Harvard undergrad — what else is she supposed to do? But I will say this, Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (JFK’s grandaughter) is really stunning looking.
Miss Bin Laden If You’re Nasty
Much snickering lately about the new book by Kola Boof, a woman who claims to have been bin Laden’s sex slave for several years. She claims, among other things, that Osama was obsessed with Whitney Houston, loved the B-52’s and was more or less fixated on women’s rears. Now comes word that the book already has "movie deal" on it, … Read More