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I was first introduced to Rick Warren by my dad in the mid-nineties, who had read Warren’s book The Purpose-Driven Church. At that point, I was invested in the idea of church, because I believed there was a way church could be done that would actually work and benefit people. ...

Funniest. Commentary. Ever.

Michelle Malkin responds to the shooting of the Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman by quoting from this email she received after the news of the shooting hit: Greg Cancilla to date Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:42 PM subject Once again mailed-by verizon.net Once again the hate you and ...

A tattoo of his wife Beth Ostrosky’s first initial, on his ring finger. I think this is pretty classy. The wedding is expected to happen very soon (my guess is later this week).

I don’t even know what to say about this story. Geneva – A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum ...

T. Boone Pickens is oil rich, to the tune of $3 billion in personal wealth. To make that kind of dough, you have to be smart. And smart he is. Pickens is no longer interested in oil, you see; he says the future is wind power. He’s so concerned about ...

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I suspect Kevin Yuill and I would agree most of the time. He writes for Spiked, a broadly “libertarian” internet magazine based in the UK: more often than not, I agree with its authors enthusiastically on all manner of topics, from freedom of speech to environmental issues to the European ...

Commenter “John” on Megan McArdle’s blog gives reason for optimism: Oil is priced in dollars. The dollar has had its strongest week in five years. The US economy is still growing at a modeate pace while Europe seems to be stagnating again. The dollar has been very much undervalued in ...

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Welcome to New-Look Monday. The blog has changed style a little, but all the original material is still here and more to come this week and beyond. I’ve been keeping up on various stories today, including Artie Lange coming back from vacation on the Stern show today and admitting he’s ...

The whole ‘viral internet’ phenomenon can tell us a lot about each other. By ‘viral’, of course, I’m referring to the ton of information that gets passed along from person to person in email forwards, YouTube videos, blog entries, Facebook notes and such, and by which people come to believe ...

At PimpThatSnack.com they’ve turned this: Into this: Damn I’m hungry.

I’m no admirer of Paris Hilton (although her sex tape was freakishly riveting). But this response to John McCain’s campaign ad saying that Obama is ‘just’ a celebrity like Paris is smart and witty and very cool. Not only that: her energy policy rocks! See more Paris Hilton videos at ...

Here’s our immediate reaction: The strength of these Will Ferrell flicks is their ability to be hilarious without any need to take the comedy seriously…. if you see what I mean. It’s the craft of making people laugh, no matter what. One-liners and slapstick abound, and a loose but very ...

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So, all of a sudden Obama is in favor of offshore oil drilling and of dumping some of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve onto the market: both ideas espoused by Newt Gingrich in his ‘American Solutions’ and by John McCain, who’s been saying it for much longer! Genius that he is, ...

Thanks to Al for sending me this; me, Melissa and Tyler in Southpark. Melissa is the cutest, as always.

Sometimes I think these blog posts could be marked with a Siskel & Ebert -style ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ system, where so often I’m merely indicating my approval or disapproval of what some pundit or other is saying in the mainstream press. If we did have that system in place, ...

The Anglican church is in trouble. The church, which has 80 million members worldwide, has become increasingly liberal and thus increasingly diverse. Its members believe a wide variety of things, a fact which is ultimately spelling disaster for the denomination. I began to ponder about why the synchronizing of beliefs ...