May 30th, 2007

Flirting with Celebrity

I used to ride the school bus with this girl. I think I even asked her out once, though memory is foggy and I might have only thought about asking her out and never actually did so.  Now, of course, she’s TV’s Courtney Friel, host of the World Poker Tournament and MAXIM covergirl, [...]

May 10th, 2007

Doesn't the Bible say something about lying?

I’m sure no one is surprised that the Republicans are opposing the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (AKA the “Matthew Shepherd Bill” – although I personally think “Matthew’s Law” has a nicer ring to it) but I have to admit that I’m surprised at the tactics being employed.

For those who are unaware, the [...]

May 10th, 2007

Nicholson: Right-wingers hate America

Jack Nicholson is quoted in the latest Rolling Stone as saying that Islamic extremists, Fidel Castro, and the Christian right-wing all have something in common: they hate American culture. What a perfect way of phrasing it.

May 8th, 2007

The demons within the walls

Is there any invertebrate creepier than the house centipede (AKA “thousand-legger”)? I grew up in Upstate New York, and had never encountered one of these until I first moved to southeastern PA around 1993. The first time I saw one skitter across the living room while I was watching TV, I thought [...]

May 8th, 2007

More thoughts on Spider-Man 3

After a couple of days to digest and turn it over, I’ve decided there were a couple of things I was definitely missing.

For one, though the movie was solid, there was really nothing new visually. The Spider-Man stuff was the same swinging and crawling which, although it is still very cool, we’ve seen in [...]