Monday, May 21, 2007

Newsweak


Silver And Blue
Originally uploaded by Rod Monkey.
Fox News says Michael Moore's new film, "Sicko", is "brilliant and uplifting". I don't think anyone has argued that he isn't a talented filmmaker.

Trivia question: Which Presidential candidate's wife has a tongue stud?

B'bye, Cingular; So long, BellSouth. One ring(tone) to rule them all.

Samantha Larson, 18, of Long Beach, successfully reached the top of Mount Everest on May 16. Is she the youngest person ever to have done it? Well, no. But she probably is the youngest non-native-Nepalese to do it. And she is definitely the youngest person to scale the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

Fresh footage of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center.

Racism goes on trial again in America's Deep South. Speaking as a native of the official scapegoat region for American Racism (something the rest of the country never lets us forget), I have to challenge the word "again". That would imply that it ever stopped being on trial in America's Deep South. I would submit that much more sensitivity to racial issues is found in the South than the region is given credit for. I would further submit that most other regions, and most especially the regions from which most of our mass media originate, are in deep denial that racism even exists there.

What to say to creationists.

The ten most common passwords, according to PC Magazine. "If you recognize yours, you may as well hand over your wallet or purse to the first person you see on the street." No need to do that, just send it to me.

Only in Florida: A drive-in church.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Drive-in churches only in Florida?!? Please remember that Robert Schuller began his ministerial career at a drive-in theater that he converted to a church in Southern California many years ago (if memory serves, somewhere around 1960).

Anonymous said...

Sorry about that. It was M. Lee Rogers who left the comment about Rev. Schuller and his drive-in theater.