Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Jared Bridges I am not a good chess player. The fact that I’m still unable to beat my father after 15 years of playing attests to this fact. Still, I love the game because it gets my mind churning in a way that is both fun and challenging. Chess is also fun to ponder about from time … Read more
Here are a few of my pet peeves from recent consumer experiences: Burger King. Shame on you for taking away you Sourdough Breakfast Sandwich. It was good and innovative, and not too scary like those McGriddle things. Even more shame on you for leaving them up on your 2’x2′ photo menu, long after they’ve been … Read more
A common caricature of the evangelical Christian is that of a poorly-educated, narrow-minded buffoon who just isn’t clued in enough to understand the greater meaning of things in the world. After all, who with any intellect at all would believe in such outmoded things as absolute truth, creationism, and the inerrancy of Scripture? Clifford Orwin, … Read more
ABC continues its facsination with the historical Jesus tonight with “Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness,” and as Matt Hall rightly observes, the list of scholars for the show is lacking. This doesn’t come as surprise that ABC would get the usual suspects to debunk traditional understandings—every show they do seems to have … Read more
Deanna Laney, who murdered two of her sons in the front yard and left the youngest maimed in a crib, was acquitted today by a Texas court. The court found that she did not know right from wrong when committing the act, thereby meeting the Texas definition of insanity. Texas law apparently does not know … Read more
Bill Wallo has good post on the sometimes conflicting virtues of truth and justice in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Wallo touches on how sometimes Holmes would sacrifice justice for getting to the truth, showing how this compares with our modern day conflicts of the virtues in things like illegal seraches and seizures. I began reading … Read more
Looks like I’m going to have to change the name of my blog. Here’s a letter I got from a Russian law firm: Comrade Bridges, Your website, entitled “TruePravda,” must change its name immediately or else you will be faced with legal action. The name of this website is much too similar to our client, … Read more
Apparently, Google’s newly announced email service is not an April Fool’s joke. Glenn Reynolds speculated about it last night, saying it looked like April Fool’s to him. This morning, hundreds of media outlets had run the story, and the kindly nerds over at Slashdot were really suspicious. Josh Claybourn noted that Google Austrailia was keeping … Read more
If you’re a chronophile like me, you’ll really want to read Henry Sturman’s article, “Darkness at One,” where he says that Daylight Savings Time is a bad idea. Yes, friends and neighbors, this Sunday is the day when we all “lose” an hour of sleep. I’m not sure if I agree with Sturman in toto, … Read more
Russell Moore’s lament on the loss of the doctrine of sin in dealing with wife-beaters has me thinking about just how pervasive the “culture of therapy” has become. I think that psychology has a valuable place in the world as a discipline, but in a sense it has become the official religion of secularism. If … Read more