Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Jared Bridges The Library of Congress has released on the internet thousands of maps from the Civil War period. The website, located here, contains battle maps and other general maps from the time. If you live in a state where the Civil War raged, check it out to see what your area looked like 150 years ago.
When does one become an adult? Is it 18? 21? How about 26? A Wall Street Journal article by Jeff Zaslow highlights the tendency of many young Americans to put off adulthood: Ages 18 and 21 are no longer the true entry points into American adult hood, as more young people today take soul-searching breaks … Read more
Although I read more in kindergarten than I have in the last month (having a child causes “adjustments” in one’s reading schedule…), I still consider myself a bit of a bibliophile. While my love of books is scrupulous (I never, ever write in my books–not even my Bible!), something I love almost as much are … Read more
Though I’m a confessing Baptist, I sometimes cringe at the actions of others who claim that denomination. Much like the way most Americans feel when Michael Moore or Barbara Streisand claim to speak for America, I want to dissociate from those who are only Baptists in name. One such church is the infamous Westboro Baptist … Read more
…but it is just so frustrating. Comment spammers—especially porn-comment spammers—should all be sentenced to life of bondage watching their friends play Texas hold’em on a webcam. I arrived back from out of town to find my blog hit with 1600 pieces of porn comment spam. WordPress’s moderation system got 99% of them, but that still … Read more
Vols 38, Aggies 7 The New Year’s Day hangovers must have felt especially harsh when the oddsmakers awoke to find the 5-point favorite Texas A&M scoreless for most of the Cotton Bowl. Tennessee was bigger, faster, and much, much stronger than the Aggies today. Casey Rick Clausen looked like a seasoned veteran, and Gerald Riggs … Read more
While languishing in the netherworld of blogging hiatus, I felt the need to do a best of 2004 list. So, here it is: Best Book—fiction (read this year): Tough, but Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood will take the honor this year. I’ll write more about it later in a Books That Haunt post, but wow! It’s … Read more
If you’re wondering why things have been a little slow here at TruePravda in recent days, you need only check a new addition to the categories menu called “life.” You can find any baby pictures, or other such information there. Things certainly have been busy, and it’s not likely to slow down until the new … Read more
I couldn’t have been more surprised if I had woke up this morning with my head sewn to the carpet. Well, not really. It seems that Chevy Chase, star of the Fletch film series and the National Lampoons’ Vacation movies has tried to put the death knell in his ever-fading career by going on a … Read more
Perhaps long ago it meant something special, but the awarding of major international prizes has taken some rather peculiar turns in recent years. Take this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai—a woman who calls humanity “a threat to the planet.” Her groundbreaking efforts in the area of peace include work with tadpoles: … Read more