Garry Wills, professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University and the author, most recently, of “What Jesus Meant,” wrote a great op-ed piece in today’s NY Times titled “Christ Among the Partisans.” Long story short, he goes point for point on how Jesus would not be happy with the way that Republicans, and maybe soon […]
Apple Paltrow has a new brother named Moses, just in time for Passover. Along with sister Apple, all Moses needs is for a few of his meshuganeh and movie rock star relatives to hang out together to form a family charoset ensemble. Via Jessie
“Too Much Information” is a commonly used acronym now. I’m not sure when I first started hearing it but it has definitely soaked into the culturesphere. “She is getting a brazilian? Um, TMI.” MSNBC today writes about how certain online profiles are chock full of TMI violations. Not necessarily a bad thing but they could […]
It seems that either Bush hasn’t been honest to the American public again or Scooter Libby, a man whose very career was founded on following orders and listening to his bosses, is now totally lying about those very same people to save his own skin. I somehow feel that is unlikely. While I’m not surprised, […]
It is really hard to keep up with Web 2.0. Amazon for instance has been rolling out tons of web services and lots of smart people are figuring out ways to use them. I would love to think of something super cool that will allow me to create a company that Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft or […]
Here are some great clips that I watched on YouTube this past week: * A Family Guy clip of when Sauron lost a contact lens * A trailer of the Simpsons movie that will arrive in 2007. * Feel great story of the month about an highly functioning autistic kid who is given an inch […]
While I made this declaration to myself on 4/1, it is anything but a joke. It is a simple pledge to try and “return to 19.” When I was 19, I was 10 pounds lighter, in much better physical shape and definitely more, as the kids put it, ripped. Stephen King wrote a great essay […]
As MLB games started last night, I decided to once again look up my favorite minor league player and namesake Lipso Nava. It seems that early last week, star infielder Lipso Nava was traded to the Newark Bears. As the press release stated, “last season with the Riversharks, Nava batted .312 with 97 hits in […]
Last November, I flew out to LA for the weekend so that my dog Bingham could play with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s dog Jelly. Oh yeah, the human folk wanted to get together too. On Saturday night, Jessie, Amos, Ro and I were joined by Jaime and Michael, great friends of ours from NYC who […]
I gleamed this bit of knowledge from my dinner this past Saturday evening: Chopsticks originated in China during the Shang Dynasty (1766 – 1122 BC) as a substitute for knives at the table. According to Confucius, knives were equated with acts of aggression and should not be used to dine. Chopsticks then became the eating […]