1. Twister. Michael Clayton and Duplicity director (and Bourne screenwriter) Tony Gilroy gets the full New Yorker treatment. He seems to hate nearly everyone he's worked with! ["For the next 'Bourne,' Universal invited back Damon and Gilroy but looked for a new director. The studio offered the write...

In crisis management mode, Michael Steele ran to GQ for a fluff interview. Unfortunately for him, yet predictably, he couldn't get through it without putting his foot in it (or whatever one would call the chairman of the RNC seeming to advocate a pro-choice position on abortion rights.) From Josh Ma...

I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference. (1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people ...

Eugene Cho gives a list of Christian books that haven't yet been written, and hopefully never will be. Some of these are really good. Here are my favorites: Everyone Is Going To Hell Except Me - John MacArthur There’s No ‘U’ in Ministry: A Woman’s Guide - Mark Driscoll God’s Most Glorified When...

According to the Denver Post: An Atlanta investment banker is auctioning off more than 15,000 videotaped episodes of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's iconic Christian talk show. "The PTL Club," which aired from 1974 to 1987, featured Jim Bakker offering upbeat sermons from a couch and Tammy Faye, wearing...

BIBLE MEDITATION: "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." 1 Corinthians 1:27 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: The people God chooses to do His work are plain, simple folks. All ...

Rendition! Sung to the tune of "Tradition!" from Fiddler on the Roof: Consider a new Report from the U.N. Special Rapporteur (.pdf), submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The Report documents the key events that led to the degradation of human rights conventions around the world over the last ...

Today The Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in Congress and, as David Sirota notes, some Senators who had voted for cloture in 2007 on the very same bill are getting cold feet now, complaining that EFCA is "divisive and distracting."   Expect this "divisive" talking point to be the meme d...

When former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was running in the Republican presidential primary last election cycle he would often tote around his favorite actor and self-proclaimed superhero, Chuck Norris, to introduce him and warm up the crowds. Once a surrogate for a Republican running for Preside...

BIBLE MEDITATION: "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." Galatians 4:6 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Do you know what "Abba" means?  It means "Daddy Father." Have you ever thought about God as your Daddy?...