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Fear not the well-fed long-haired men
The highlight of my Christmas is when Tom and his long-haired brother, Andrew, were up for the game point in the James Bond Edition of Scene-It. They had tied the previous question, which made the next challenge particularly intense. The room fell silent as the seconds counted down to the tiebreaker, which is random and […]
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A Christian Response to Jonathan Swift
It sometimes amazes me that out of the same pen can come amazing tales and immoral treatises alike. I am sure that many of my readers know and love the book, “Gulliver’s Travels”, by Jonathan Swift. The charming tales of a man shipwrecked in a land of little people has given much laughter over the […]
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Handbook of Scripture to Grow On
From my Amazon page. Handbook of Scriptures to Grow On is an indispensable book for Christian parents. It is a thin book, just a little over 150 pages, of verses topically arranged by everyday character and behavioral issues. The beauty of scripture is that, as we teach our children, we grow with them. Knowing what […]
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Read What You Sign
salguod just posted a scan of his register receipt from his local video store. Apparently, in signing the receipt, he agreed to “surrender [his] soul for all eternity to the clerks” at the video store. (via Boing Boing.)
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Pretending to Please Your Guy in Bed
This week, I went to a routine doctor’s appointment. While I waited to be called, a woman sat across from me reading a ‘how to please your man in bed’ article from a women’s magazine to her friend, who was sitting next to her. It was loud enough, it was impossible for anyone in the […]
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Free Speech and Dissent
Lawrence Lessig has invited Geoffrey Stone to guest blog until Saturday while he’s away in Italy working on Creative Commons stuff. Geoff is a professor of law at the University of Chicago, and author of “Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism“. So far, Geoff […]
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Truth and Laughter
“The truth of the gospel leads inexorably to laughter. Those who want to glower as they cling to truth want something that can never be. Whatever it is they have in their hands, it must not be the truth, unless it is perhaps just a fragment of it. The dour Calvinist, the cranky sabbatarian, and […]
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My First Scam in German
While I’ve received over a hundred of the Nigeran Scam emails, today marked a turning point, as I have received my first email in German. I assume it’s one of them, since the format is the same as all the others, and it says “Dollar $9 Million” in the text. I suppose I got on […]
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Why not a red fern?
Thanks to the help of some kind scientists, when a loved cell phone dies it turns into a sunflower.
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Full Recovery
I forgot to mention this! I stopped by the surgeons last week for a followup check to my recent surgery, and I got a clean bill of health. Praise God, the great Healer!
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Grim Calendar
I found out that Cryptome.org has a detailed chart of American soldiers dead in Iraq (when, where, and how). There’s been a lot of talk about removing embedded cameramen from Iraq since Kevin Sites reported and filmed the marine who shot the apparently wounded, unarmed Iraqi. I’ve never heard so much whining about how we […]
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Joke of the Day
Q. Why does a chicken coop have two doors? A. Because if it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.
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Crazy Bus Comeback
Lately, my children have been singing the Crazy Bus song from the PBS kids show, “Arthur”. They run the loop between the kitchen and dining room, screaming Crazy Bus at the top of their lungs. Yesterday, I said, “YOU GUYS ride the crazy bus!” and Thomas replied, “Yeah, but you DRIVE the crazy bus!”