I did a double take when I passed this display this morning in my local Barnes and Noble (Rancho Cucamonga store, to be exact). I was there to purchase The Strain, which I am eagerly ingesting. So I passed this display in the middle of the store, center aisle, at the end of the Science [...]
I recently noticed that the employees at my local Home Depot had mysteriously become much more helpful. “How are you this morning, sir? Can I help you find something?” The first couple of times, I did a double-take. Is this Home Depot? I later discovered it had something to do with a new CEO who [...]
I’m thrilled to announce that Coach’s Midnight Diner will be making another appearance! If the last volume was the “Back from the Dead” edition, this one’s gotta be the “Alive and Well and Preparing for World Domination” release. As much as I mull Christian Horror at this site, it’s disturbing, er, encouraging, to know there’s [...]
Two things happened last week that reveal the glorious possibilities and pitiful inanities of the technological revolution. One has been called Iran’s Twitter Revolution: What neither the U.N. nor the European Union have been able to do, what the Great Satan is too preoccupied with its finances to even try, may be accomplished by a [...]
Is it a sin to throw a Bible away? A long time ago, my friends and I attended a gospel meeting to see an elderly evangelist. It was a young crowd, full of saved ex-hippies. We sat in the front row and had our Bibles resting on the carpet underneath our chairs. To our surprise, [...]
So I finished Bram Stoker’s Dracula several months ago, and really liked it. A little melodramatic in spots, overly florid in others. The entire story is told in a series of journal entries, and though the technique works, there are times when it challenges credulity. I mean, wow, they journaled a lot! But overall the [...]
He’s saved us from national disgrace, economic collapse, crooked bankers, institutional racism, poverty, and unaffordable health care. Now the Dem’s Enlightened Being has saved us from eight years of the scientific dark ages. From Scientific American 10: Guiding Science for Humanity. The leading science magazine in America selected ten people who have “demonstrated outstanding commitment [...]
Advertising agency Cramer-Krasselt has compiled a 2009 Cultural Dictionary of new words and phrases culled from magazines, Web sites, blogs and other cultural conversations. Besides the joy of being on the cutting edge of societal evolution, appearing hip can earn us oldsters some valuable points with the iGeneration. So here’s some of my faves: Social [...]
When debating evolutionists, the average Christian must concede a lot — mainly, reams of scientific info and terms. I can navigate my way through the Bible, but when it comes to Horizontal Gene Transfer, Epigenetic Inheritance or the Cambrian Explosion, I am relatively clueless. This doesn’t mean we should sacrifice all scientific spin to the [...]
I’ve updated the Duran Clan website with some pics from the kids’ recent trip to Maui, and their visit with Grandma D. Along the way, Alayna was experimenting with her new Canon EOS and its many lenses. And by the look of some of these pics, I’d say she’s doing a great job. You can [...]
