This is a blog post I drafted in my mind back during the heat of the Republican primaries. It was more timely then than now. And it’s almost certain to offend more people than it pleases. So naturally, here I go . . . There has been much speculation about how Evangelicals voters will respond […]
About a year ago I wrote a couple of ranty blog posts about the way husbands and fathers are portrayed in television commercials. These: Madison Avenue’s Go-To Guy – The Clueless Husband/Father More on Doofus Dad/Hapless Husband As Providence would have it, these posts came to the attention of Joshua Levs, a writer for CNN, […]
Finishing the most recent book project meant I could finally take a weekend to run up to the hills of southeastern Oklahoma and check in on my mom. It’s been more than a year-and-a-half since dad passed away so she usually has a healthy “honey do” list for me on those too-rare occasions I can […]
After a long, dry period of blog neglect my good intentions here are to now resume regular posting (providing the work crew currently resurfacing the road to hell doesn’t need my good intentions for paving material.) Pretty much all of my discretionary hours over the last nine months have been wholly owned by a book […]
Recently came across this promotional poster for the Avengers . . . I’m looking forward to the move. So much so that it might actually get me to darken the door of a movie theater–a rare occurrence. But something bothered me about the rendering of Thor in this image. He didn’t quite look like the […]
I recently came across an online display showing how the offical face of the Betty Crocker company has changed over the decades. I thought I would go ahead and provide the interpretation of what each iteration is saying to you: Message: The overall image says, “We’re living in the dawn of a golden age of […]
Excellent essay on the unscientific underpinnings of the green movement over at the “Defining Ideas” site: “The vogue of environmentalism stems from two ancient myths disguised today by a thin veil of scientific authority.”
I don’t actually have the time to spare for this, but I cannot NOT comment on President Obama’s invocation of Jesus and his personal Christianity in support of forced redistribution of wealth by the government in the same week his administration was deploying the coercive power of the Executive Branch to force Catholic Charities to […]
I’ve thrown together a little video of my first few hours on the ground in Nepal. It runs about four-and-a-half minutes. Have a look. A little commentary follows: If you’re having trouble viewing the video, click here. To get to Kathmandu required about 32 hours of travel–including a 15-hour non-stop flight from Chicago to Delhi– […]
A week of traveling in Nepal has left me grateful, dazzled and utterly exhausted. Kathmandu. Bairahawa. Pokhara. And a little mountaintop village we could only reach on foot. Nepal is a place of astonishing beauty. The people are largely warm, friendly and industrious. Oh, and the children are ridiculously cute. Nepal is 80% Hindu, 11%, […]
