“Christ didn’t come to earth to give us the willies!”
Been a while since I saw this classic scene from DOGMA. Love it.
Entries Tagged as ‘Random Thoughts’
June 27, 2009
Private School
I went to public school until college. My wife went to the same private school from K-12. So obviously, it’s the subject of much discussion as our girls begin their educations.
Now that our oldest has completed a whole year of public kindergarten, we can compare her experience with some of her nursery-school chums who went [...]
January 18, 2009
Prayers = God Alerts
A few things got me thinking about the role of prayer in the hypocracy of religion this week. Both trivial, but thought-provoking nonetheless.
First, I had a fun little run-in commenting on a Robert Scoble post about the Hudson river plane landing in FriendFeed. A woman commented: “I am also not discounting all the prayers that [...]
December 29, 2008
My Birthday’s Coming Up (hint)
After my last post, I was reminded (thanks Eric!) of a quote from the great philosopher, David Lee Roth, who said “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
I’d like to revise that and replace “yacht” with “Maybach Landaulet.” Just look at this [...]
December 27, 2008
Hyper-Survival
The following post was inspired by Warren Olney’s “To the Point” program on KCRW today.
If you ask most people, they will tell you that money can’t buy you happiness. I contend that they are betraying their true beliefs. Here’s why.
Money = Happiness stems from an early truth that those with money can afford the necessities [...]
November 4, 2008
When I Grow Up
Tonight, I elected a black man to be my President. Of course, that’s not why I voted for him or why he’ll make a great POTUS, but it makes his – now, America’s – story all the more inspiring.
I grew up on movies like The Candidate and later got hooked on The West Wing. Stories [...]
October 2, 2008
You Betcha, She’s Folksy!
Having missed the VP debate tonight to attend the Open House at my daughter’s elementary school, I watched the recorded “showdown” with a unique perspective. You see, while y’alls were watching Joey the Shark masacre Sarah the Fauxbot, I was sitting on miniature plastic chairs, surrounded by construction paper art, and listening to a teacher [...]
September 30, 2008
Mock the Vote!
I got my general election sample ballot in the mail! It’s like xmas until I discover O’Biden and McPalin aren’t the only ones running for POTUS. WTF?
Who are all these other pretenders? Apart from an appearance on Bill Maher, Nader has been (wonderfully) absent from… well, from any coverage at all. And what about his [...]
September 29, 2008
Profiled!
Help! I’ve been profiled!
This gentleman, asking passersby for spare change, looked at me walking past him on a Beverly Hills sidewalk the day before Rosh Hashanah and said “Hey man, start the New Year out right!” referring to me helping him in his quest for free money. Apparently, he just assumed that I… believed in [...]
September 13, 2008
Apology Accepted
It’s being reported that tomorrow, The Church of England will officially apologize for condemning the theories of Charles Darwin on his 200th birthday. They’re phrasing it as “misunderstanding” his theory of evolution, and the apology will be released on their website – so you know they really mean it!
Pictured above is one of several critics [...]
