Brokeback to the future
The title says it all. It's Brokeback Mountain meets Back to the Future.
I thought the overall quality of the mixing was so good this deserved mention here. Enjoy.
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April 15, 2006
April 14, 2006
Wesley troublemakers
It looks like Wesley Fellowship is creating troublemakers across the country, including the University of Georgia.
ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious -- including ninjas. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents ... detained a "suspicious individual" near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. ninja event when he was detained.
..."It was surreal," Ransom said. "I was jogging from Wesley to Snelling when I heard someone yell 'freeze.'"
Ransom said he thought a friend was playing a joke before he realized officers had guns drawn and pointed at him.
Full article
It's not a party until a federal agent pins you to the ground, cuffs you, and holds you there by putting his knee on your neck.
That does *not* look comfortable. I smell a lawsuit. Gotta love cell-phone cameras.
April 13, 2006
Ted's twin brother
I didn't realize that Ted Voigt had a twin brother, let alone a famous twin brother.
I recently watched Americano, and was surprised to see the star is someone I know. Actually, it just turned out to be Joshua Jackson.
Maybe I'm just nuts thinking they look alike.
You decide:
If you actually read this... Hi Ted!!!
April 11, 2006
Outsourcing craze
Now when you go through the drive-thru at McD, your order might be taken by someone in another state where there is a lower minimum wage.
Is this a good thing?
April 03, 2006
Prayer is a waste of time
A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had any impact.
-- Reuters
You can read the full details of the study in the American Heart Journal.
The $2.4 million Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer, or STEP, is the sixth and most expensive study to find that intercessory prayer has no real effect on the wellbeing of patients. The nine-year research project was partly supported by the John Templeton Foundation, which also funds Science & Theology News. -- Christine Casatelli, senior editor at Science & Theology News
Prayer itself has no effect. Prayer may have apparent benefits, but that view fails to account for other factors that have a real and significant effect as well as random events. The same could easily be said for meditation and the like; it would be just as effective... or rather ineffective. Clearly the prayer isn't calling into action any supernatural intervention.
Most research studies that claim to show how religious involvement is associated with better health fail to rule out other factors that might account for the relationship, or mistake chance findings for real ones. -- Dr. Richard Sloan, professor of behavioral medicine in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center
So is prayer a waste of time? I suppose it depends on your view of it. If you understand how it works (or rather doesn't), you aren't likely to get the plecebo effect. If you think it will have a positive effect, it just might, but not through any supernatural power. Ultimately it's up to the reader, but from a scientific understanding of the factors involved, prayer is a waste of time.