An idea to up the pace in NBA games

There have been lots of arguments over the declining pace and quality of NBA games in recent years. Scoring is down, the games are impossible to watch (the Pistons’ method of boring the opponent and crowd to death ruled supreme last year – I know I couldn’t watch it, even though I was loving the [...]

The Web’s Greatest Hits?

I have a new project I’d like some help on. I’m compiling a list of the WWW’s greatest hits. By this I’m referring to the sites, games, and outright stupidity that have periodically overrun everyone with a Net connection. Below are listed ten that come immediately to mind, but I’d like to make sure I’m [...]

RIP Johnny O

We’ll miss you, Johnny. Obit

Christmas Flap

After my earlier “Merry Christmas” post the esteemed Dr. Harold Tedford passed along this column by Charley Reese, and I find a lot to agree with here. First: I don’t think nativity scenes belong on courthouse lawns and or other government properties. For one thing, in its usual weaselly way, the Supreme Court said that [...]

Mental Kudzu on the rampage

God Bless America. Jesus is a goldmine. Val MacEwan is raising some hell over profiting off of Jesus. And she’s right, of course. You know, moneychangers, temple, all that….

Heller on Rummy

Ouch.

Merry Christmas from a neo-pagan

We’re hearing a lot this year about the secularization of the holiday season. (See, I just did it – I failed to call it “Christmas.”) Battles are being waged in courts over whether Christian groups can stage nativities on public grounds, in the press on whether children should be able to offer explicitly Christian expressions [...]

My unconceived children

As a follow-on to my earlier missive about the sanctity of unconceived human life, I have taken what I believe is a critical step in helping our nation’s leaders see potential children as real people and not just faceless numbers. I have spent the last few days naming my sperm (or at least beginning to [...]

The real travesty of the Peterson case

Scott Peterson got off lucky. Yeah, he was duly convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner, and sentenced to death for his trouble, but in truth he’s fortunate he was only charged with those two murders. For reasons that remain unclear, prosecutors chose not to charge Peterson in the deaths of any [...]

Bertuzzi off the hook

Well, well – Todd Bertuzzi has cut a deal and will avoid jail time. Meanwhile, it looks more and more like his victim, the Avs’ Steve Moore, will never play again. I doubt I have anything more to say about the gutless punk than I’ve already said (several entries in last year’s March archive, here). [...]