Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
Caitlin Flanagan is one of those talented writers for whom I imagine it is hard to find an ideological home. Feminists and liberals despise her for suggesting that feminism might not have worked out for the benefit of women. Likewise, she doesn’t quite fit the conservative mold — she is, for example, regrettably on the … Read more
That’s it. I guess that after 24 years, it’s time for me to give up Christianity. After all, James Cameron, the director who put Leonardo DiCaprio at the bow of the Titanic, will announce to the world next week in a Discovery Channel special that he has found the body of Jesus. Not only that … Read more
For the wages of sin is “having deep personal issues,” but the gift of mankind is eternal therapy. It’s not exactly Romans 6:23, but it is the prevailing modus operandi of popular culture. What do Michael Richards, Isaiah Washington, Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan, Ted Haggard, and Gavin Newsom have in common? A good dose of … Read more
Saturday morning cartoons aren’t what they used to be. The 24/7 nature of television, along with the increased demand for folksy morning-news programming, has put most weekend cartoons out to pasture. Still, some vestiges of this ancient Saturday morning tradition remain — especially on cable. Take, for instance, the Disney Channel cartoon “Higglytown Heroes.” It’s … Read more
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
Forget the so-called “nanny–state.” Now that the New York City Board of Health has banned trans fats in its restaurants, the only thing left for the NYC government to control is its citizens’ bowel movements. To aid in this final conquest, perhaps the city’s next mandate should be to require daily doses of Metamucil® for … Read more
Do we have a right to have children? If so, whose job is it to guarantee this right? These are tricky questions. On one hand we are faced with the biblical injunction to “be fruitful and multiply,” and on the other hand, there are those who are willing to lay aside any ethical considerations in … Read more
What in our lives can’t we do on the web? We can order pizza, groceries, clothing, and DVD’s (what more could one need?) over the internet. We can telecommute to work, have the WebMD diagnose our illnesses, and get spiritual nourishment at Cyber-Church. We can make our friends at MySpace, find our spouses through E-Harmony, … Read more
This New York Times article entitled “Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers,” seems misunderstood on many levels, the least of which is its assumption that evangelical Christianity is merely an alternative to the cornucopia of other lifestyles available to today’s teens. This statement, in particular, is telling: Genuine alarm can be heard from Christian … Read more
A week ago, after watching an episode of Criminal Minds on CBS that dealt with a pedophile, I remarked to my wife how pedophilia had become the crime du jour in popular culture. After all, it’s hard to find these days a television crime drama that hasn’t tracked down a villainous child molester just in … Read more