Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Jared Bridges You speak eloquently and have seemingly read everybook ever published. You are a fountain of endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, and never fail to impress at a party. What people love: You can answer almost anyquestion people ask, and have thus been nicknamed Jeeves. What people hate: You constantly correct their grammar and insult their paperbacks. … Read more
Watching Al Gore speak tonight via his own invention, the internet (I’m watching the DNC over the streaming video feed via c-span.org), I suddenly realized that this speech is the man’s swan song. Tonight we saw the “Saturday Night Live” Al Gore versus “Angry” Al Gore. He had little to say except his “I almost … Read more
In the ever-changing world of bioethics, this ruling from Pennsylvania seems to be a move in the right direction: A state appeals court ruled that a verbal agreement between a woman and her sperm donor was invalid, and ordered the man to pay child support for the woman’s twins. The three-judge panel ruled Thursday that … Read more
…you resort to stunts to promote your cause: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals staged a ‘Live Make-Out Tour’ on Friday to promote vegetarian eating. The event — in which a scantily clad couple make out in a bed set up on a city sidewalk — is meant to demonstrate PETA’s claims that … Read more
Here are some wacky things from around the web: First, Tim Berglund is on the case of the ubiquitous GoDaddy girl, finding that the same model and same photo show up on a dating advertisment as well as an interntet registrar. Next, if you’re a former phone prankster like me who pines for the days … Read more
A recent German poll indicates that single German women prefer remaining single: BERLIN (Reuters) – More than 80 percent of single German women are perfectly happy without a man in tow and say living solo gives them more freedom to do what they want, according to a survey for Stern magazine. Coming amid mounting political … Read more
All the hubbub about constitutional amendments, gay marriage, the pledge of allegiance, the ten commandments, and the like has the country in a understandable turmoil when it comes to religion in public life. Those of us who side with tradition and the morality of those who came before us stand against the ever-rising tide of … Read more
In opposition to the inaction of this blog, I thought I’d give you a section of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poem “Stations on the Way to Freedom,” called Action: Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not … Read more
I’ve rarely read anything as cold as this narrative of a woman pregnant with triplets who decided to kill two of the fetuses by “selective pregnancy reduction:” What I was going through seemed like a very unnatural experience. On the subway, Peter asked, ”Shouldn’t we consider having triplets?” And I had this adverse reaction: ”This … Read more
Sometimes people just don’t agree on what looks good and what doesn’t. Such has been the experience of Kentucky’s latest vehicle license plate. Take a look for yourself—would you want to drive around behind that ridiculous smiley-faced sun all day? I didn’t think so. Neither do many Kentuckians. A trend around Louisville is to put … Read more