I honestly don’t get why more Christians aren’t ecstatic about this. I thought all press was good press. You would think this whole Jesus couldn’t have had a wife and child because he was God incarnate ridiculosity would have subsided with the DVD release of The DaVinci Code. Apparently, this still sticks [...]

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About a year or so ago, I picked up a documentary from the library called Stone Reader which was about a guy who bought a book in 1972 based on a positive New York Times book review. The book was written by a freshman author named Dow Mossman who had graduated from the Iowa [...]

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Is there such a thing as a completely altruistic act? Is it possible for someone to act in a manner that is completely selfless and totally giving? I personally don’t believe there is. And I know some of you will likely throw icons at me like Mother Teresa or Ghandi but I [...]

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I finally got around to watching Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth this weekend and, to be totally honest, I was blown away. I believe that if this movie had been released in the summer of 2000, Al Gore would have won the 2000 election against George W. Bush and we would be living [...]

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I’ve been doing some research on Windows Vista, even downloaded Word and Excel 2007 (can anyone give me a halelujuah on the 1,000,000 rows and 16,000 columns of possibility in the new Excel?) and I’ve come up with a short list of reasons why I want to upgrade and another list of why I won’t [...]

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An old writing school buddy e-mailed me to ask if I was pissed about the rumor that JJ Abrams is producing a Dark Tower television series based on Stephen King’s 7-book magnum opus, a series of books which I consider to be one of the best series of the Post-Post Modern era (I hate that [...]

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Alright, it’s time to second the record straight as Mike D once said. We all know the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. But how many people have actually stopped to read the poem instead of mindlessly mouthing the final line like it was a clarion call to individualism? Because it’s [...]

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I had mixed feelings when I read this article in the Columbus Dispatch about the dramatic rise of food stamps in Ohio. On the one hand, I understand and even support the social need of having limited welfare programs to assist those in career transition and even the indigent who cannot support themselves. [...]

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I caught the documentary Bastards of the Party on HBO, about the origins and evolution of the Bloods and Crips in Los Angeles. It was absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking to trace the history of one of the most unfortunate self-genocides in the history of our country.
The film, produced by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, [...]

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Please take 10 minutes out of our day to watch the movie below. It’s so true that it hurts. It amazes me that most Americans have to be hit over the head so bluntly in order to get the point. It’s like the frog in the slowly boiling kettle only the frog is [...]

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