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Jonathan Edwards or death metal?
Blogger/author Jason Boyett recently went through some of Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards’ fire and brimstone sermons and found the juicier parts extremely difficult to tell apart from random death metal lyrics. Don’t think so? Try these two on for size: 1. I can hear the whispers of the demons poisoning his mind “More blood,” they say “More lives” […]
Pepsi vision
This is what San Francisco-based designer Lawrence Yang envisions whenever he sees the new Pepsi logo. (Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan)
The GOP’s useful idiots?
At 36 years old, the pro-life movement is still energetic and indignant—and trapped. Every year of Republican rule has increased the suspicion that pro-lifers are the GOP’s useful idiots. Planned Parenthood still received federal dollars, and Congress never stripped courts of their ability to overturn parental notification and conscience laws. A human life amendment was […]
Bad logic of a bad system
Can I say that as someone who doesn’t really follow baseball, I’ve been pretty surprised at all the gnashing of teeth over the revelation that Alex Rodriguez was using steroids back during the period when Major League Baseball had no real testing and sanctions policy for steroids. Haven’t we reached the point where we should […]
About that 25 things fad
The Washington Post takes a stab at explaining the 25 things fad on Facebook. (Hat Tip: Fat Lip) UPDATE: Salon has an interesting take on it as well.
Only 193 days
That’s how long it took scandal-ridden Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to keep his promise about releasing documents detailing his mortgages. Well, sort of, according to ProPublica.org.
Stress and grammar
The premise may be a bit of a stretch, but the recent MSNBC article “Is stress pushing spelling snobs over the edge” might be worth reading if, like me, you cringe at the site of a misplaced apostrophe, unnecessary quotation mark or preposition at the end of the sentence.
Best Super Bowl ever?
Peter King thinks so: This game had the best defensive play in Super Bowl history, the 100-yard James Harrison interception return. This game had the best defense of the last five years, being strangely shredded by The Quarterback Who Fell To Earth, Kurt Warner. This game had Ben Roethlisberger emerging as a no-doubt, unquestioned clutch […]