I will not make being a Christian more important than being in Chri...
Friday, September 21, 2012
Burger King hassles customers at McDonald's in Rome, Georgia
Police in Rome, Georgia (a town that I have some firsthand knowledge of) are on the lookout for none other than the Burger King himself, who allegedly stood outside the McDonald's restaurant there and commenced to handing out free hamburgers.From the CBS News story...Police were called to a local McDonald’s in relation to a disturbance caused by a man dressed as the Burger...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Trailer for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
And high-def Quicktime versions of the trailer are up at trailers.apple.com. We wants it my Precious, yesssss...I made Kristen promise me something late last year: that we will see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey together at its midnight premiere, Lord willing, no matter what. Seeing this trailer has stoked my longing for this movie that much more. December 14th cannot get here fast enough! Okay yeah it can, but you know what I mean...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Obama Administration brings back Bush-era "free speech zones"
Students at Wright State University who were protesting against Joseph Biden when he visited the campus last week were quarantined a quarter-mile away from the Vice President by the Secret Service. This happened not once, but twice. The rationale given by the Secret Service: they "didn't want the protesters to be too close to the motorcade."Before any Republicans or Romney supporters cry "foul" about this, it would be well to remember that this...
This is the greatest Star Wars thing I've seen in YEARS
A seriously talented dude on YouTube with the username "otaking77077" has created what is by every possible measure the most astounding work of Star Wars art that has been produced in a very, very long time. Fellow YouTuber "JPL4185" added some music and sound effects from pre-existing sources. But it's the animation that will drop your jaw and have you begging for more...Mr. George Lucas, THIS is the Star Wars that we the fans desperately want...
"A Town Called Mercy": Spaghetti western, DOCTOR WHO style!
Before getting into the review, I wanna say from the getgo that I thought this week's episode further demonstrates a theory I've had for the past few years: that the Doctor is an unconscious agent of God. Last year's "The Doctor's Wife" might have supported that notion, but I mean, c'mon: how is it that the TARDIS is always landing in a time and place that the Doctor is needed?...
Unintentionally hilarious children's test answers
WARNING: This might be the most gut-bustingly funny link that I have ever directed this blog's readers to! Kristen and I enjoyed looking at these last night and we literally could not stop laughing! One of them in particular (feel free to guess which one) had me so hysterical that I was nearly keeled-over on the floor. If you are sitting at a desk with a drink, it is...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
At #5 on Cracked.com's list of The 6 Most Baffling Political Ads Ever Aired...
...it's... me!
That was almost six years ago. I really am never gonna live this down, am I?Well, it was a lot of fun running for school board. The entire experience, I mean! One that I would never trade for anything. I learned a great deal more about election laws and running for office than I had ever known before. I didn't win a seat but that's okay: it was a great...
Warhammer 40K wildly popular among U.S. military personnel
Warhammer 40,000 Sixth Edition came out over two months ago and I still haven't gotten to play with the new rules! Just been busy on multiple fronts. Which makes me look positivalutely pathetic compared to what these dedicated players go through...
Slate Magazine has a terrific article about how the futuristic tabletop war game is incredibly popular among the men and women...
A-maize-ing: World's biggest QR code
On the fertile green plains of Alberta, Canada, the Kraay Family has engineered the world's largest QR code into a cornfield.And yes, the code works! Hold your smartphone outside the window of a hovering helicopter and when you point it at the code you'll be directed straight to the Kraay Family Farm website.The QR code takes up about 1.1 square miles of land and has just...
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Behold the world's oldest known color motion picture!
In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became President after the assassination of William McKinley. The Wright Brothers were still experimenting with gliders and motorized propellers. Tsar Nicholas II reigned in Russia and the British Empire mourned the passing of Queen Victoria. A child named Walt Disney was born in Chicago. Guglielmo Marconi used his newly-invented radio to send the first trans-Atlantic signal.Meanwhile in England, a photographer named...
In-vitro adoptions rising among evangelical Christians
Krista Kapralos writes a most fascinating piece in The Washington Post this week: about how evangelical Christians are coming to the forefront of adopting frozen embryos that have been fertilized in-vitro. The article cites that there could be approximately 600,000 embryos being stored in liquid nitrogen around the United States. And that in keeping with their pro-life...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Two sequels to INDEPENDENCE DAY being produced
"Welcome to Urf"... again.(Hah-hah-hah, did you see what I did there? Did you?!)
Word breaking this afternoon is that TWO sequels to the 1996 sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day are in the works. Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich are trying to get everyone from the original back on board. Right now the follow-ups are titled ID Forever Part One and ID Forever Part Two. How...
Why the hell do we even have embassies in Egypt and Libya?
Civility is a chosen virtue. It cannot be imposed or expected from those who refuse to accept it and its responsibilities.Time to get out of the Mid-East until "countries" like Egypt and Libya learn to behave. Pull EVERYTHING out, including all those billions of dollars of aid they get from us one way or another.If they want to return to barbarism that bad enough, who are we to stop th...
Monday, September 10, 2012
Fire the striking Chicago teachers... and ban them from the classroom for life
More than 400,000 schoolchildren in Chicago are without educators today after the teachers union there went on strike. I say "educators" lightly because by some accounts nearly 80% of eighth graders in Chicago public schools don't have adequate reading skills.So these "teachers", who are already paid on average between $71,000 and $76,000 before benefits, and are only working nine months out of the year anyway, are going on strike because a 16%...
Friday, September 07, 2012
Hound of the Baskervilles?
It is seriously foggy this morning. Like, the kind of fog that Arthur Conan Doyle used to vividly describe as covering the moors of Britain in his Sherlock Holmes stories.So after letting Tammy out to do her "doggie business", the notion struck that there might be a photo opportunity.And here she is, bounding out of the mists like a ferocious creature in murderous pursuit...
