Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Larry Norman, a popular Christian rock musician, died this last Sunday. You might not know who he is, but you probably know Frank Black, whose early aesthetics were influenced by Larry, causing Frank to play onstage with him at his last concert.
Larry and gang founded “Contemporary Christian Music”, or CCM, a product of the [...]

Kill Your Television

Having taken the last 6 months or so off, I had plenty of daylight hours to burn, only a small portion of which I used to do anything productive. Rather, I went through a period of “high inertia”, did some great internet surfing and T.V. watching.
Somehow I managed to make it through 63 episodes [...]

May You Live in Interesting Times

I am seeing a marked decrease in complacency out there. Whether this will be good or bad remains to be seen, but I think it as a positive thing.
Obama is doing remarkably well against Clinton, winning the most delegates so far. More importantly, he’s smashing the popular vote, getting remarkably close to 2 [...]

War on Pot: $42 Billion a Year

The War on Pot cost 42 billion last year; roughly 10% of the federal deficit.
I was listening to Love Line the other night; something I do rarely now that Adam is on in the morning.  Some surfer dude called up with an asinine question, but he mentioned that he smokes pot except before during competition [...]

Obama is Your Man

Here is an excellent article explaining exactly why Hillary would make such a bad nominee; many independent voters hate her, especially those who have conservative leanings.  For them; she represents the good ol’ Democratic Party, the “New England” liberals.
Hillary as the Democratic nominee would push many independents to vote for John McCain.  Obama would at [...]

The Natural Philosophy of Scientology

Someone went way overboard, and mailed packets of suspicious white powder to a number of Scientology offices. Fail; it terrified a bunch of people and wasted time and resources better utilized keeping the peace and tracking down Osama. This act has been vilified in the blogosphere, and Anonymous has condemned it and [...]