by Bret Capranica | May 24, 2006 | Culture
Boo Boo the Chicken dies – Yahoo! News The chicken brought from near death by mouth to beak resuscitation has succumbed to death. My, my, what a dark...
by Bret Capranica | May 18, 2006 | Catholicism, Culture, General Theology
National Catholic Register Reading this article confirms what I had often thought about Randall Terry. He is on the right side (though his methodology is often askew) of the abortion issue, but devoid of much in the way of biblical theology. Not that I had delved deep into Terry’s background, but based upon his public appearances, he seemed a bit shallow when it came to Scripture. So, no wonder that he would move into...
by Bret Capranica | May 13, 2006 | Culture, Ecclesiology
Pyromaniacs: On proper attire for church I would LOVE to hear from some of my Living Stones friends here.
by Bret Capranica | May 8, 2006 | Culture
The Last Titanic Survivor Dies — At Least the Last Survivor Who Could Remember the Tragedy Dr. Mohler notes the cultural significance of the Titanic and the 20th...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 28, 2006 | Blogging, Culture
Blogs and the Survival of Civilization Reconsidered So, this rejoinder suggests that if I am disinhibited, Blogger and WordPress are not to blame. Disinhibition is a cultural trend that blogging simply allows the already disinhibited to vent. This article made me feel so much better. I’m not as disinhibited as Snoop Dogg or Al Frankin. With that, I believe I will continue blogging. Here’s more about blogging from Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. A purely objective journalist criticizing the inhibitions of...
by Bret Capranica | Apr 27, 2006 | Culture, Humor
Calif. Woman Spanked at Work Sues for $1.2M – Yahoo! News I went to public school in the days when teachers could whip the snot out of you for poor behavior. And let me tell you. After elementary school, I had little snot left in me. I’m all for going back to “swats,” as we called them, at school. But at work? Here’s the money quote from this article about a woman being spanked in front of her co-workers in a ploy to build sales: “No reasonable middle-aged woman would want to be put up there before a group of young men, turned around to show her buttocks, get spanked and called abusive names, and told it was to increase sales and motivate employees,” her lawyer, Nicholas “Butch” Wagner, said in his closing argument. The company says the spankings were voluntary and this woman just wants money. Probably. But getting spanked at work? I do wonder how the company’s sales figures have turned...
