I am so not-sad that I have mostly stopped watching TV: What a way to kick off the year: A...
Where I grew up, Milwaukee, there was quite a trade in figurines of Catholic saints, medals, etc. A friend of...
And Al Gore wasn't even visiting at the time! For the first time since 1836 it has snowed in Sydney...
Probably both, I suspect. Seven percent of atheists think Jesus is the Son of God...
I'd heard about "Famous Dave's" BBQ restaurants about a decade ago, listening to founder Dave Anderson doing some charity thing...
... may not have originated in China! According to the oddly-named "Jennifer 8. Lee": They are served in Chinese restaurants...
Douglas Adams wrote that Vogon poetry was the second-worst in the universe -- the worst, he said, was some obscure...
Both words, "cleave" and "sanction", can mean the exact opposite thing. "Cleave" can mean both to attach to, and also...
At one point in my life, I became convinced that much of what passes for the discipline of "theology" was,...
Sic 'em, Muffin! A Wentzville woman could get up to 18 months in jail and a $1,500 fine for hitting...
The other night I was at Keystone, sitting in a "day lodge" (whatever that's supposed to mean -- more like...
Is it my imagination, or since his crack-up, has Al Gore begun to suspiciously resemble Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard?...
Remember "Fantasy Island?" I do, obviously. When I was a kid, it was on after Aaron Spelling's other weekly offering,...
For thieves with a huge stomach ache: A Seattle patrol officer discovered a 30-foot Dreyer's Ice Cream truck in South...
A long review of John Carpenter's late-80s movie about aliens. Or is it Republicans? Or is it
really about himself?
The moral of this baaad little story? Where there's a will, there's a whey. Except when bureaucrats have the final say...
How does the modern Christian relate to a cheap knockoff monster-battle flick? And what would the creator of the universe say about that? My thoughts and musings.
A student in Madison, Wisconsin finds a unique way supplement his income. Sadly, he's clever, dull-witted, and amoral all at once...
Brian Carnell: Some NFL teams have a knack for taking second-rates back and turning them into stars and their teams...
The Passion seems to be doing pretty well at the box office. Perhaps Hollywood could learn some lessons from it? One studio thinks it might... uh, kinda...
When I was much, much younger, I attended a Christian conference called "Marketplace" in the Chicago Hilton Towers, along Michigan...
Comments from the Lord of the Rings cast, and myself, about the meaning and applicability of Tolkien's ideas today.
That's a line from a Rod Stewart song from the 80s, in which he's attempting to seduce a young lady....
Was talking with Mom tonight about everything under the sun. After discussing the comparative environmental merits of coal versus nuclear...
We had a Pixar marathon at Jasperwood this weekend, and I am once again astonished at the artistry that studio...
BBC is running a promo for "The Office." In it, they have people explaining exactly why the show is supposed...
I love football. In what other sport does a team owned by a small-town Veterans for Foreign Wars post have...
The bible in Aussie? "There were some drovers camped out in a paddock nearby, keeping an eye on their mob...
I used to love MASH. Hawkeye was, in certain regards, a person who I looked up to... But recently, I had a thought which made MASH a whole lot less enjoyable.
Boy meets girl. They have sex shortly after meeting. After a month of good sex, they move in together. They have more sex. After nine months, they get engaged, then married...
I'm listening to the BBC's radio programme "Outlook". This is odd, because I realize I see the BBC on the...
T-Shirt: Buckle Up. It Makes It Harder for the Aliens to Snatch You From Your Car. Another T-shirt: Upon the...
No, not quite -- but Jewish World Review reports that life has not been boring for a Saddam Hussein lookalike!...
Recently, Barbara Streisand sent a fax to the city of Brookfield, Wisconsin, asking them to name a street after one of her favorite politicans...
Free speech on campus shouldn't be a conservative cause. In fact, it shouldn't be a cause at all...
Several humorous stories with an interesting juxaposition between footwear and faith. Indeed, these are the times which try men's soles...
Dialing for Dictators: After two Florida DJs successfully spoofed Hugo Chavez, they decided to go for big game, Castro himself....
Sometimes a bad movie review is a good thing to find. This week, the producers of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" team up with Roger Ebert to produce just such a review for our enjoyment. Let's just hope the kids don't "learn" anything about the world or history from this one!
Seinfeld proved conclusively that you could write a successful show about absolutely nothing. The series thesis statement could be:
Jerry and friends hang around together while and failing to learn anything of signficance.
'Rudy', a made-for-TV film about Rudy Guiliani, shows tonight on USA TV. (In twenty minutes, in fact.) Catherine Seipp writes...
My good friend Harry informs me Cedar Point is busy constructing the "Top Thrill Dragster": Forty-plus stories, 120 miles per...
A few thoughts after watching a "Cops"-style X-Files episode: (a) Dana conspires to make us believe Fox. There's an old...
I was watching an episode of M*A*S*H recently, and heard a line which I remember hearing as a child: Hawkeye...
Looks like my life is going to get interesting. Mr. Ahmed Savimbi from Angola has contacted me. Something about $45.8...
Perhaps its just my imagination, but once upon a time, didn't A&E feature other daytime dramas than just Murder She...
If you care at all about the state of our schools, you have got to read this. And don't say:...
We all knew Germans are allowed to drive as fast as possible on the autobahn highway. But I didn't know......
In a move expected to garner broad international praise, Iraq promises to pass legislation banning weapons of mass destruction next...
For the last several years in a row, the Anchorage area has had insufficient snow for the traditional start of...
Dave Barry has a blog!...
Even though I liked "Happy Days", at least through the first several seaons, and same for "Laverne and Shirley", there...
I'm watching 50's alien invasion film This Island Earth. Three nuclear physicists walk into a laboratory and hear a cat...
Happened to see, for the first time, a couple moments of the "Dr. Phil" show. Today: Women who yell at...
Or at least the zoo you were raised in. A Danish Wallaby runs away from home, and learns something about...
The New York Times reports on two plays, "House" and "Garden", whose plots -- and actors -- are interwoven. The...