a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Wow. I’m a little behind the times on this one, but Dead Like Me is canceled by Showtime. That makes three of the five or six shows I watch which have gotten the axe this season. Ouch. The only shows I have left are Six Feet Under and occasionally Alias. Okay, I watch Nip/Tuck, too. [...]
This is ridiculous. Fox just earned the “We Blatantly Don’t Care About Fans” award outright. First, they cancel Point Pleasant before the cult following grew to sustainable numbers (because they knew that while it could be profitable, it wouldn’t be extremely profitable)… Now, after bringing Tru Calling back for the six episodes they had already [...]
It’s amazing what can be accomplished… when you’re sick and bored. I read about every single Pope on about.com in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the more interesting tidbits I picked up: a female Pope (Pope Joan) Additional Link Also a Pope who made his grandson’s cardinals… huh? Celibacy anyone? I [...]
I’m getting so many false hits from bots trying to generate links from my stats page, I’m disabling the visible stats. There should be a law (or enforce a law) against referral spam activity. It has rendered my server stats useless. Even though b2evolution can blacklist, the server still records the hits as having occurred. [...]
That’s the name I was hoping the next Pope would choose. Alicious. Then we could say all sorts of cool things about how him being popealicious. It could’ve become a trend. If he was very compassionate, then maybe when someone is compassionate, we’d say, “He’s popealicious.” Benedict reminds me too much of Benedict Arnold. I [...]
“There were not sufficient reasons to unleash a war against Iraq. To say nothing of the fact that, given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go beyond the combatant groups, today we should be asking ourselves if it is still licit to admit the very existence of a ‘just war’.” Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [...]
Can’t say I’m entirely surprised by this. I guess many thought he wouldn’t get it because they were going to go with a more liberal pope. I just didn’t see it. Ratzinger was the clear frontrunner for me, though I confess my knowledge of Catholic cardinals is extremely limited. Pope Benedict XVI has huge shoes [...]
I’ve been following this for awhile, and it just cracks me up. The President broke the law. He stole music by willfully giving his iPod to someone who downloaded music onto it the President never paid for! Gasp. I remember when Clinton’s impeachment stuff was going on, the rhetoric was, “He broke the law. Plain [...]
Whoever heard of such a thing? Seriously, I’ve been overwhelmed lately. I’m pretty upset I had my program crash for that last podcast, because it’s been like a week and a half, and I haven’t had the time to either re-record or piece together the temp files. Things may be slowing down soon. I’ve actually [...]
I can’t emphasize enough how awful this movie was. I felt violated. I’ve never asked for my money back at a movie theater, but I was close this time. And just for the record, it’s not the unChristian things that disturbed me. The story was awful, it was trite, and the symbolism sucked. I am [...]