Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2009
If you’re a conoisseur of religious propaganda like I am, you quickly notice certain tropes. One of my favorites is the “insert god into non-god-related current event as tortured theological metaphor” trick, which pops up all the time. Today’s example is Beliefnet’s “Crashing God’s State Dinner,” which uses the antics of the party-crashing Salahis to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2009
(according to Google News) 1. Fail to predict your best friend / employer’s sudden death: He never thought he’d be CEO material. And yet here he is, running the 6-year-old John Entwistle Foundation, working every day to get musical instruments into the hands of poor and sick kids. “If you want to make God laugh,” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 13th, 2009
Recently I have discovered a new website called Examiner.com. The idea seems to be that for each of a list of cities, and for each of a list of topics, someone can apply to be the city-topic “examiner.” So, for instance, you might be the Seattle Meditation & Angels Examiner or the Jackson Womens Style [...]
