Current Events
Is This Really Necessary?
According to a story today on FoxNews.com, a company called Digital Praise has announced the release of “Guitar Praise”…a Guitar Hero knockoff where players can (and I quote):
Strap on the guitar and play along with your favorite bands—tobyMac, Relient K, Flyleaf, Newsboys —and more. SHRED the riffs…THUMP the bass…BLAST that solid Christian Rock!
Okay…I can appreciate […]
Watercooler Wednesday - Not Cute Enough For TV
(This post is part of Watercooler Wednesday)
You’ve probably seen it on the news already. The adorable little girl that sang during the Beijing opening ceremonies? She was doing a Milli Vanilli. Lip-synching.
Why? Because a member of China’s Politburo decided that THIS girl, who actually sang the song, wasn’t attractive enough for television.
Needless to say, there’s […]
A Little Less Soul Today
Isaac Hayes…born 1942, died today at 65 years old.
And if you think Isaac Hayes was a bad mutha…
Shut yo mouth.
Thanks for the funk, Isaac.
How To Not Answer A Question
ABC News: “If you had it to do over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge?”
Barack Obama: “No, because keep in mind that question, you wouldn’t … but keep in mind that kind of hypothetical is very difficult to know hindsight is 20-20 … later … but I think […]
The Bulldog Nation Mourns
Rest in peace, UGA VI. You were a good dawg.
“3000 Miles Wide And 3 Inches Deep”
According to this article on FoxNews.com, the Pew Forum has some new survey results out, and the statistics are sobering…
You can read the article for yourself, but bottom line: 57% of evangelical church attenders believe that many religions lead to eternal life, even if that conflicts with their traditional evangelical teaching.
In addition, 70% of “religious” […]
Parents Of The Year
From Japan -
The parents in a suburban primary school ganged up on the teacher directing the production of “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs”. They told her it was unfair that only one girl got to play Snow White. They inundated the teacher and the school with phone calls, heckling, and what the school called […]
Excuse Me, I Have Gas
I’ve seen a lot of Tweets* today about gas prices. We’ll probably see a lot more, especially after today when crude shot up ten bucks to an all-time high of $138.54 a barrel.
So, a few observations about our current situation (props to George Will):
In 1995, a bill to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife […]
