Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
While this Washington Times Op/Ed piece by a lieutenant who served with George W. Bush in the Air National Guard should put the issue to rest, it probably won’t. What is so interesting is that such tactics are being raised now. The opposition usually raises aruguments of this kind during September or October to sway … Read more
Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is out. No, is isn’t the Soviet plane that Clint Eastwood stole in the 1982 movie FireFox, it’s a web browser. Formerly known as Phoenix, and Firebird, I’ve been using this browser as my primary web browser for over a year. It’s faster, and has better features than Internet Explorer, and you … Read more
Actress Charlize Theron gained 30 lbs. and a lot of makeup to look incredibly ugly for the movie Monster, in which she plays Aileen Wuornos, a serial killer who was executed in 2002. Now Theron and the film’s director are using the film as a platform to speak out against the death penalty: “I don’t … Read more
Jim Tonkowich has a great article on the relationship between boredom and a lack of wonder: If we are bored and casting about for the next experience that may, at least temporarily, jerk us back to life, we will never develop a Christian spirituality and worldview. First, we will never make the time and take … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. Five friends I had, and two of them were snakes. So begins Frederick Buechner’s (pronounced “Beekner”) Pulitzer Prize runner-up novel Godric. The novel is loosely based on Godric of Finchale, a 12th century holy man known for, … Read more
Howard Dean will make a spectacle of himself, and nothing will stop him from doing so. He initially indicated that he would drop out of the Democratic race if he lost Wisconsin, but now he says he will stay in for the long haul: Acknowledging that it was an “obvious contradiction” from his fund-raising e-mail … Read more
I’ve been using Computer Associates’ free EZ Armor Security Suite for my anti-virus software for about two weeks, and everything seems to be working well—even with all the MyDoom onslaughts in the last two weeks. I switched because I was having some conflicts between Norton Antivirus 2003 and Outlook XP. Since Microsoft and Computer Associates … Read more
What do you do when a cow wanders into your local bank?
Since everyone else does this, I thought I would begin highlighting a few of my favorite blogs (that you need to be reading too) on Fridays. And yes, if everyone else jumped off a bridge, I would too. The Evangelical Outpost: If you’re an evangelical blogger, I don’t have to tell you to read Joe … Read more
If you’ve ever wondered about what goes on behind the scenes at a car dealership, this article is an intriguing read. The writer worked undercover at a dealership to find out how the process worked: What really goes on in the back rooms of car dealerships across America? What does the car salesman do when … Read more