As if I needed another reason to love NPR!
This video was used as an intro to NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller’s presentation at this year’s D: All Things Digital conference. It’s a parody of current internet trends and memes, and, OMG, it’s hilarious: “Auto-Tuned Things Considered”! (I want Robert Siegel to release an album!) Peter Sagal using ChatRoulette! (“Hi, I’m Peter Sagal. [...]
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 [...]
Today’s lesson from a Good Christian: gay people are like pesky elephants
In theory, The Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog sounds interesting: gather together a panel of writers, both religious and non-religious, to respond to questions about religion and politics. However, the editors have encountered an inevitable problem: the majority of the religious individuals they have invited to participate in the panel are horrible writers who, unsurprisingly, [...]
Rabbit is the question
Saturday’s edition of The Guardian‘s Comment is free ran a piece by Mark Vernon, called “God is the question: What does it mean to accept that God is not the answer to anything, but remains the unanswerable question?” I have zero patience for this kind of rambly, meaningless, intentional obscurantism, this “God is an unknowable [...]
