Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
My father sent me a link to the National World War II Memorial’s website, where a searchable registry is maintained of those who fought. If you have a friend or relative who fought in WWII but is not listed in the database, you can add them. My grandfather, the late Cecil Bridges, of Alabama is … Read more
You are Roscoe P. Coltrane. You do have morals,they’re just easily forgotten. If your bosstells you to do something, you jump to it. Youare kind to animals, especially basset hounds. What Dukes of Hazzard Character are you? I must confess that I doctored the results of this quiz to be Roscoe P. Coltrane. James Best … Read more
I don’t use the term “heretic” freely, but the wildly popular Benny Hinn doesn’t do anything to help himself avoid the label. He is, to put it simply, a heretic and a shyster. This month’s issue of The Door Magazine has a particularly denunciatory article/expose on the white-suited evangelist: He has no church. He belongs … Read more
While General Wesley Clark is busy looking like a metrosexual on the cover of the homosexual magazine The Advocate [see Albert Mohler’s blog today], USA Today claims that the rise of the “metrosexual” has reached its peak: It seems a market correction, if not a backlash, is afoot. Guys’ guys, the kind who’d rather spend … Read more
A new study finds that sleep is essential for creativity: For the first time, scientists say they have proved what creative minds have known all along: that our sleeping brains continue working on problems that baffle us during the day, and that the right answer may come more easily after eight hours of rest. The … Read more
Each Tuesday, until I decide otherwise, TruePravda will feature a different book in the Books That Haunt series. If there was ever a more intriguing book title than G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, I have yet to find it. With the exception of Friday in Robinson Crusoe and Joe Friday in Dragnet, I … Read more
Overall, I thought it was a good speech. There are certainly none in the Democrats’ camp who would even take a stand on, much less talk about defending marriage in such strong terms as George W. Bush did tonight. However, my question for any Democrats who read this blog is in a different direction. Why … Read more
With all the buzz about tonight’s Iowa Caucus, I got to wondering where in the world the word caucus came from. Did it derive from caucasian, the term for white people? Probably not. One etymology for caucus gives this: Etymology uncertain. Mr. J. H. Trumbull finds the origin of caucus in the N. A. Indian … Read more
That’ll show those Southerners that Howard Dean is serious about religion. He didn’t just show up for the church service this morning—he went to SUNDAY SCHOOL! Yep, that’s right, Dr. Dean sat in on President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School class this morning in Plains, GA. Carter, in his usual wishy-washy style said that he wasn’t … Read more
I’ve always been fascinated by the phenomenon of conspiracy theories. I never watched the movie JFK, but I did take note of people’s reactions to the film, many of whom believed that the film was a factual documentary. Writing regarding the conspiracy theories surrounding Princess Diana’s death, Frank Furedi comments: Another important cultural pressure is … Read more