Why bother?
I’m currently doing some research for various writing projects, and, today, I’ve been reading a journal article called “Different Identity Accounts for Catholic Women” (it’s available only via institutional database subscription, so you’ll be able to see only the abstract at that link), written by Elaine Howard Ecklund and published in the Review of Religious [...]
Always look on the bright side of life!
Ugh, I’ve been insanely busy for the past few days! More “real” posts soon, promise. Anyway, for your Friday, a video that deserves lots of adjectives (and some adverbs, too), including: brilliant, wonderfully blasphemous, quite touching, incredibly hilarious, darling, and super-awesome: For life is quite absurd, And death’s the final word. You must always face [...]
Did it achieve total heavy-ocity?
Then why don’t you get William F. Buckley to kill the spider? (I will never ever stop loving this scene!) (Or this movie!) (Love!)
Francis Collins. Ugh.
Oh, ugh. Francis Collins has edited a new collection of essays on religious belief and its relationship to reason. Before I get to that, some background: Last summer, when Collins was appointed as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health, many people, myself included, were understandably very concerned, as he is an evangelical [...]
Shalit Haiku!
On a lighter note: Gene Shalit, film critic for The Today Show, (among other things) is hilariously awesome. He brings so many lolz to the world with, as Wiki puts it: his frequent use of puns, his oversized handlebar moustache, and [...] colorful bowties. And then there’s Muppet Gene Shalit!: Anyway! On Friday, I was [...]
Stay classy, teapartiers!
Oh holy crap. Last weekend, at a meeting of the “Lewis & Clark Tea Party Patriots” (in a town near here), a speaker named Dianne Capps said that Washington Senator Patty Murray: …should suffer the same fate as the character Jake in Lonesome Dove. “What happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd?” [...]
Eating chocolate cake in a bag
Oh my, this is all kinds of awesome! Darling Robyn Hitchcock (& The Minus 5) covering “The Ballad of John and Yoko” at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe late last year: Wonderful! Must not spend all evening watching Robyn Hitchcock videos… Must get something done…
Virtuous Smelliness? Or: bring it on, Andrew Brown
Oh, Andrew Brown, how you befuddle. Brown, the editor of The Guardian’s Comment is free- Belief section, is well-known for his confusing, rambling, and incoherently limp defenses of Christianity. Last week, Jerry Coyne hit the nail on the head in his excellent post, “Andrew Brown, The Guardian‘s resident moron” (also, be sure to check out [...]
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