When you're driving along Beverly Blvd and Poinsetta on a weekday afternoon, you don't really expect to see... A camel. Or more so, three camels! When it comes to partying like it's 300 BC, we Jews win the prize... even in a recession, no donkey shows for us....

When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

Anyone else confused by all the economic news? No? Well then I guess it’s just me. Most of the news outlets I’ve seen and read don’t do an especially good job of explaining the situation, especially how we got here, and, more importantly, how all those supposedly smart people runni...

Simulated guitar? Gibson gets carried away, but the law wins. Photo/bento creation (CC) Sakurako Kitsa.(Yup, this is a Fender Strat, but this is my kind of simulation of a musical instrument - in cheese form!) Gibson, the guitar company, has been on an utterly absurd campaign against music games, br...

I am no fan of the Brit tabloids, but this almost sure to be studio denied by nightfall quote in The Sun is too good to pass up. Andrew Veidt/Ozymandias wants you to know: “The negative feedback is relayed by my friends. I think the fanboys aren’t particularly happy – there are a load of peopl...

The Consumerist blog thinks they’ve found the worst food product ever. With one serving providing 1170% of your daily allowance for cholesterol (there’s no missing decimal in that number), it’s certainly a contender. Not to mention the name and contents of the can. However, it̵...

As a nation, it seems we’re having an aquatic moment. More specifically, octopi. Or octopuses, if you   prefer.   On YouTube, t-shirts, at craft fairs and greeting card shops. Seriously, look around. You don’t need to go to the Shedd Aquarium gift shop to see octopi all o...

The urgency of being way behind a single dominant player can make electronics makers do some odd stuff to promote their products. iPod, once an icon of digital cool, has achieved such ubiquity that it doesn’t even try to be hip any more. The thing is being promoted with American Idol, for cryi...

EW broke the lingering news today that it looks like Bill Condon’s long-gestating Richard Pryor movie is about to settle in at Fox Searchlight, after developing with The Weinstein Company and then having a brief dalliance with Paramount, where they sought to slice the price dramatically. Indeed, E...

We watched the penultimate teaching from The Truth Project this evening at church. It dealt with labor. I found it a good teaching, showing that work can be a joy because God Himself took joy in His work. Best of all, the teaching touched on the need for Christians to support the arts and those skil...