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• Inspirational McCain

I try not to write about politics. I think the whole election process in this country is a farce. It’s an overblown popularity contest. Such a small percentage of the population really knows what their candidate believes. Most base their votes on purely aesthetic or stereotypical guidelines. They find someone that looks the most like [...]

• Hedley Lamaar and Tribbles Director Dead

I feel like i need to make a new column for death announcements, after the Harry Potter actor and Sydney Pollack, now I have news that two more notables have passed. I hate writing the title “(insert name here) Dead.” It just feels morbid. So I’m going to start calling any death announcements here the [...]

• SNL Season Finale

Steve Carell hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live and I have to admit, he is one of the funniest people ever. I was gasping for air watching his opening monologue and the whole show was good, the “There Can Be Only One” ad putting Clinton and Obama side by side was great. But [...]

• A Theology of Consumption

Television has been called the electronic babysitter. Parents worry about too much sex and violence being transmitted to kids. Yet half a century of rhetoric about television’s harmful influence hasn’t changed the fact that most viewers simply don’t care. They don’t consider television a classroom dedicated to the development of youth. While legislators grabbed headlines [...]

• New Dancing with the Stars Cast

Dancing with the Stars is back for season six, and this year’s cast includes some of the most well-known stars yet: an Academy Award winner, a Tony Award winner, an Olympic Gold medalist, a nine-time Grand Slam tennis champion and the NFL’s current Man of the Year. See the full list with dancing partners here.

• RIP HD-DVD

Toshiba announced today that it will cease development, production and marketing of its HD-DVD players and recorders. They had been struggling from the start to compete with Sony’s Blu-Ray in sales.
Early this year, they were dealt one of a series of deathblows by Warner Bros. who said that they would abandon HD-DVD and would [...]

• Letterman vs. Leno

Kris Rasmussen from Idol Chatter on Beliefnet weighed in with his thoughts over Jay Leno getting more viewers last night than Letterman whose production company went out of their way to make a deal with the striking writers so they would not have to cross picket lines to begin production. And his observations were excellent.
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• Why Strike?

As we near the two month mark for the Writers Guild of America strike, I thought it was important to let my ten readers (ok… ok… I’m exaggerating) know why the writers are on strike in the first place.
First of all the writers do not want to be on strike. They have been forced [...]

• Shaq’s Big Challenge

In case you didn’t know, last night was the premiere of an ABC special series called “Shaq’s Big Challenge.” We all know Shaq is big, but what is so big about the challenge?
Childhood obesity is a fast-growing epidemic in the U.S. And Shaquille O’Neal is trying to take 6 Florida kids from fat to [...]

• Lost and Found

Unlike some Lost fans, I missed the first season. I thought it looked stupid to begin with, and we were pretty involved at church on Wednesday nights, but my wife and I began watching during the second season (oddly enough while I was holding a church position and working on Wednesday nights). We’d finish up [...]

• I Love Brutal Honesty

Does it seem like no one is ever really honest? Everyone puts on masks to make themselves more digestable to those around them. I think we do this because most people who are truly and brutally honest are considered jerks. I thought about this while watching two of my favorite shows on T.V. last night; [...]

• Today in History: February 7

I’ve always liked history, so I regularly visit sites that give history facts and trivia. One of my favorites is to see what happened today in history. It’s really fun to look at your birthday or anniversary. But here’s just a sample of today’s events. Dates and Events by Scope Systems.
1905 - Oklahoma admitted to [...]

• The Desire for Fame

Last night on 20/20 one of the reports was on a rising trend among teens and college-age adults who would reportedly rather be an assistant to a celebrity than a CEO of a major corporation. They believe that the simple proximity to fame could be enough to tip the scales in their favor in their [...]

• What Christmas Is All About

“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” - J. I. Packer
What are some of your [...]

• A Memorable Monster Laid To Rest

I just heard some sad news, Actor Peter Boyle died yesterday at the age of 71. Probably most popularly known as Frank, the hilarious father of Raymond, on Everybody Loves Raymond. But I will remember him sing and dancing Putting on the Ritz as the 7ft tall monster of Fredric Frankenstein in Mel Brooks’ comedy [...]

• Is Joel Osteen Fascinating?

Tonight on The Barbara Walters Special ” Most Fascinating People of 2006″ The man with the most annoying smile in the world was #8. There is much more that annoys me about Joel Osteen than his grin. His teaching is just awful, yet week in and week out millions of people tune in to hear [...]

• It’s Great to Be a Florida Gator

Our beloved Gators played hard and took down the Arkansas Razorbacks for their first SEC Championship in 6 years. This convincing win propelled them to beat Michigan on Sunday in the only game that mattered. The Gators were picked to play No. 1 Ohio State for college football’s national championship, ending any chance for the [...]

• The Effects of Pornography

I grew up in church, a fundamentalist church nonetheless. And I attended my youth group faithfully, and every February, around Valentine’s Day, our church would participate in “True Love Waits,” an abstinence before marriage campaign. But it couldn’t just stop with a simple urge towards chastity, these talks had to run the gamut; sex, abstinence, [...]

• On Being Scared

As Halloween draws closer and colorful superheroes line the aisles of stores with ghouls and goblins, and trailers for horror movies light up our television screens with eerie and gruesome images, the question comes to my mind: Why do people, as a whole, like being scared?
Now, I grant you, not everybody likes to be scared. [...]

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