This is only a notion that entered my mind. But it's one that all too greatly suggested itself.Just reading where the United States is recalling its ambassador to Syria. This comes in the wake of the bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minster Rafik Hariri yesterday.And more people than you might want to know are right now cackling and grinning and rubbing their hands with anticipation over this news.I've already written on a few occassions...
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Monday, February 14, 2005
Watch the ball and behold the future
Two bits of news that caught my eye. The title of one immediately brought all kinds of cultural references to mind and the other was just plain weird enough to pique my curiosity.From the London Daily Mail via RedNova.com:Posted on: Friday, 11 February 2005, 00:00 CSTCan This Black Box See Into the Future?DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies...
Saturday, February 12, 2005
About "that website story"...
For the record, 'cuz plenty of mail has been coming in about this, given my earlier relationship with the subject matter:- Yes, I've heard about what's gone down the past 48 hours or so.- Yes, I've read the open letter.- No, I haven't read the message thread.- No, I haven't read any comments about it anywhere.- Yes, I'm aware some things I've written here have been posted to another website.- No, I do not post to that other website.- No, I do not...
Screamin' Dean has no meanin': Why Democrat and Republican loyalists are fools
Did a quick look through all the major news sites and #1 story today is Howard Dean getting elected to be chairman of the Democratic Party.Why should we care?This'll be a big deal to a lot of people. The Dems will praise their new leader and the Pubs will hate him more. That's all.This "news" has no intrinsic value whatsoever. But it has the intended effect: trick a lot of people into thinking that this "really matters" so they can be even more...
Theological wunderkind Kyle Williams is at it again
This time he's talking about what happens "When Christians worship man". Go read it. N...
Friday, February 11, 2005
The cradle will rock when the stars are right...
So a little while ago my wife and I are talking about how things will be if/when we start having children, and how I've always dreamed of being the kind of Daddy who reads bedtime stories to the kids before they go to sleep for the night."But I don't wanna read 'em stuff like 'The Little Red Hen' a zillion times over and over," I told her. "That got old fast. By the time they're five or six I'm thinking something like tucking them into bed and...
More qualified than Gannon: I'm a blogger, a REAL journalist... and now a PORN STAR!
The funniest thing about this Jeff Gannon story, for me at least, is that someone with two days of journalism training during a weekend seminar becomes a credentialed reporter from a website - that was maybe a week-old at the time - and then given regular access to the White House press briefing room. Despite having an obvious agenda to promote a political party, his meteoric...
Thursday, February 10, 2005
"Most of all, you've got to hide it from the kids"
Dustin Hoffman admits that he thinks about sex every seven seconds.
Hey Dustin, "We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files", but that's waaay too much info, buddy! ...
For all those fans of the Tar Heels after last night's game...
...one of the most renowned among you is "feeling blue" too. But he's got some sage words of wisdom that'll surely pick you right up!!(P.S.: And Chad, as much as I've always rooted for Duke or N.C. State or whoever over UNC, I must say this with all sincerest conviction: despite this one loss it is a most wonderful thing to behold than I ever thought possible to see the Tar Heels back on top of their - and I mean THEIR - game again :-)(P.P.S.: Yeah...
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Was Jeff Gannon a "PsyOps" by the Bush Admin?
It's not "major league" news in most of the press right now: in fact it wouldn't be surprising if you haven't heard about this at all. But it's gotten pretty big among a lot of bloggers so Lord only knows where this thing is gonna end up.The Boston Globe broke the story last week that Jeff Gannon, a reporter with a website called TalonNews.com, was enjoying regular access to the White House press briefings and even getting to ask questions to President...
"But did he leave a tip for that drink?"
Officials fear baby acquired herpes during a Jewish circumcision, apparently after the attending rabbi drew its blood with his mouth.Ummmmm...
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Dr. Kelly Hollowell: Unwitting pawn in a meaningless war?
After finding her remarkable credentials - which include Juris Doctorate and a Ph.D that she earned from her thesis on the genetics of cloning - I have to wonder: How can a woman so intelligent, and so gifted, and so sincere a Christian, and (if I dare say this being a married man) so beautiful, publish something that is sooooo tired and boring?I refer to Dr. Kelly Hollowell, founder and head of Science Ministries and regular columnist for WorldNetDaily....
Friday, February 04, 2005
Prime cuts of meat get priced and tagged without "sell by" date
University of California is considering tagging human cadavers with supermarket-type barcodes to keep track of them. It's said to be a measure to combat the illegal sale of body parts.Anyone else noticing how much the real world is starting to resemble what William Gibson depicted in his novel Neuromancer?That's... sca...
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
"Will you kindly explain to me why the Sartres are always born on the other side?"
That line, spoken by Col. Mathieu (played by Jean Martin) is the one bit of blatant humor that I can remember a half-hour after finally getting to watch The Battle of Algiers.I haven't been this stunned by a movie since The Passion of the Christ came out last year.No, I didn't watch the State of the Union address by President Bush: he's just going to waste more of our money...
"It's dead, Jim."
Yeah, so I mentioned Star Trek: Enterprise getting canned in the last post.But how often does a guy get to use that famous line and it actually mean something? ...
Gettin' more medieval on "Left Behind"'s behind...
Some others are weighing in about what was discussed here yesterday. The Refuse blog lays some serious smack down on Left Behind:Left Behind™ is a media empire. But, more than that, it seems that the success of Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins is what epitomizes the desired goal of every publishing house and record label in the Christian ghetto. It's a sign of the times in which we live, that cheap media to the masses in hopes of making a buck is competing...
THE KNIGHT SHIFT Exclusive: Christopher Lee's VERY FIRST Horror Picture Appearance!
And it was way, WAY before he played this guy.
Or before he appeared as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man, either. Or as Fu Manchu or Scaramanga or the Mummy... and before The Lord of the Rings was anything but scribblings in Tolkien's notebook. Five years before George Lucas was born, his future Count Dooku made an appearance in one of the most unique - and gruesome - photographic...
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Iraqi militants are nothing: thank God he wasn't captured by Destro or Dr. Colossus
Geez, I'm kicking myself hard about this. When this picture first broke on the 'net I looked at it and the first thought was "That doesn't look like a real person... it looks more like a doll." But that got dismissed fast. It seemed too silly, only 'cuz I knew that these terrorists, as evil as they are, surely couldn't be THAT dumb, right?Right?!?From My Way News:Web Site...
Back to the Tyndale House of "The Rising" Son
The Left Behind books have become a literary trainwreck for me: I know I shouldn't look because it's going to be awful, but since I've read all of them over the past six years anyway I feel compelled to turn and stare, just in case I've "missed" something that will make so much of the previous time in the series worth it. Book #8, The Mark was the last time there was a thrill...
