Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Jared Bridges The news of President Ford’s death has caused some bloggers to remember this video, where SNL comedian Dana Carvey, acting as Tom Brokaw, pre-records the announcement of Ford’s death — in 1996. It’s a funny video, given the fact that it is now common practice for news outlets to have completed obituaries on hand before … Read more
Here are the cities in which I spent at least one night during 2006: Alcoa, TN Alexandria, VA Birmingham, AL Chandler, AZ Baltimore, MD Detroit, MI Flagstaff, AZ Gray, TN Holland, MI Lexington, VA Louisville, KY Owensboro, KY Stamping Ground, KY Woodbridge, VA c.f. my 2005 list
My newborn daughter recently received in the mail her social security card, complete with a nine-digit number that she’ll have to memorize and recite for the rest of her life if she ever wants to have anything “official” completed. Given the chances that she’ll ever receive back any benefits that she’ll pay into the program … Read more
Popular Christmas sensibilities most often portray the Christ as a helpless baby. This we should not forget, as it reminds us how the almighty God took upon flesh. Jesus was a man — the son of God. If he had not his humanity, Christ could not have satisfied the wrath of God on the cross. … Read more
Charles Halton has some good suggestions for education reform.
War of the Worlds meets Belgium: A fake TV spot saying Belgium had erupted into civil war dupes many. Compare the public reaction to a 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Is Morality Relative When It Comes to Relatives? — Albert Mohler on the Cheney situation, and how it sheds light on how we often act differently when kinfolk go astray.
Whitewashing Jesus: Why has the portrayal of Jesus in art drifted far from the likelihood he was a brown-skinned Semitic Jew?
One of the most famous passages in The Brothers Karamazov, has to do with the existentialist Ivan Karamazov telling his brother a parable called “The Grand Inquisitor.” The parable examines what would happen if Christ returned to the contemporary world of Christendom. The result, Ivan tells us, would be no different from his first experience … Read more
You’ll shoot your eye out: Recreating ‘A Christmas Story’ for Tourists in Cleveland