Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
The Russian newspaper Pravda is reporting that Elijah Ripson, who along with Michael Drosnin wrote the 1997 book, The Bible Code, has emerged with a new set of predictions that the Bible has given us: In his research, Ripson concludes that the upcoming year of 2006 will be the most dangerous in terms of terrorist … Read more
…and doggone it, nobody’s gonna listen!
As David Mills of Mere Comments noted the other day, National Review does seem to be slipping a bit from being a strictly conservative magazine. Yesterday, NRO ran this absurd article in which the author, Catherine Seipp, (who incidentally writes for Penthouse magazine) rambles on about how Playboy magazine is not pornography and is not … Read more
There are actually some people who think that fiction is a waste of time. Only books that have “real” meaning should be explored, they say, and the wistful realm of the ficticious is merely a chasing after idols. I am not one of those people. I believe that works of fiction—good works, mind you, can … Read more
I have many, many points of contention with this article by Alan Wolfe in the January 2004 edition of the British magazine Prospect. In the article, entitled “Dieting for Jesus,” Wolfe paints American evangelicalism with a broad stroke that is cheifly pejorative in tone. The general thesis of the article is summed up in the … Read more
I did a bad, bad thing: I just had to get that off my chest. I feel better now.
Actor Robert Duvall is criticizing director Steven Spielberg for palling around with Fidel Castro in a 2002 trip to Cuba. Surprisingly, Speilberg met and had dinner with Castro for several hours: “Spielberg went down there recently and said, ‘The best seven hours I ever spent was actually with Fidel Castro.’ Now, what I want to … Read more
I knew it would eventually come to this: Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And he’s threatening to sue the cable company. Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of … Read more
Speaking of Britney Spears’ one-day wedding, Sacramento Bee columnist Anita Creamer writes: And so, as 2004 begins, the joke marriage takes its place in the pantheon of America’s heterosexual wedding culture, alongside reality TV marriages, starter marriages, second (and third and fourth) marriages, green-card marriages, arranged marriages, plural marriages and that faithful if virtually forgotten … Read more
If you haven’t yet heard of the bizarre case of Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who killed and ate the apparently willing Bernd Brandes, this is not something from an Anthony Hopkins movie or Thomas Harris book. Meiwes, who sought out potential victims on the internet, is on trial in Germany and is actually trying … Read more