Quick Hitts

This just in – using thick toilet paper is worse than driving a hummer or living in a huge house.  According to this article: Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Yeah, no question.  When examining all the troubles and [...]

I just did an interview about Blood Witness on the Not About Religion blog.  Check it out. 

In 2006 there was only one podcast award.  It allowed anyone to vote on their favorite shows, once a day, for a month.  This guaranteed only the most popular shows with the biggest audiences could win.  I wanted an award with a different model, one that would give excellent but obscure shows a realistic chance [...]

I wanted to read a novel about a Jehovah’s Witness becoming a vampire.  JW’s are adverse to any kind of blood ingestion, so he’d have some trouble with that.  On the other hand, they believe Christ died on a stake, not a cross, so crucifixes wouldn’t bother him.   It would be even more interesting [...]

Here’s a handy check list for Muslims seeking to improve civilized people’s opinion of their religion. Do: Become a successful and well known businessman in your community Start a TV station devoted to helping non-Muslims overcome the negative images they have of Muslims and Islam. Generate a lot of press about it. Receive an award [...]

We’ve seen kids kicked out of school for having a gun charm on a charm bracelet, for having a tiny bat that fell off a baseball trophy in their car, for having a butter knife in the trunk of their car, and for drawing pictures of guns in school.  But that’s not going far enough, [...]

It was about 8 PM, and Ryan Fredrick was sleeping.  He had to get up early for his soda delivery job.  Two days before he his home was burglarized, and in a nearby neighborhood people had been killed in a home invasion.  He had bought a gun to protect himself. He woke to pounding and [...]