Forget what I said about the lack of creativity and new material in the horror genre. Have you seen the synopsis for Zombie Strippers? To continue wars in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Canada and Alaska, the fourth-term Bush administration’s military has developed a virus that will reanimate fallen fighters, allowing them to fight on as flesh-hungry [...]

Comedian Bill Maher’s hatred of all things religious is well known. Take for instance his recent comments on The View. Among other things, Maher asserted that “pretty much all religion” is bad, “childish destructive nonsense.” That’s funny. And here I thought pretty much all atheist comedians were snide, bitter morons. Oh well. But Mahr’s comments [...]

9/11 changed so many things for Americans. Airplanes, skyscrapers, immigration, civil rights and security issues were all ratcheted to red alert. Our world suddenly looked different. Favorite pastimes like baseball, movies and malling paled in comparison to the horrors we had witnessed. But to what extent have we over-reacted? I’m in the camp of “err [...]

Christians and the horror genre, both film and literature, have a skittish relationship. Back in the early 80’s, the late Walter Martin, to the dismay of many in the evangelical community, promoted the film version of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. How could a secular film, much less a secular horror film, have [...]

I’m hoping Lisa doesn’t hear about the University of Michigan’s latest findings. As part of a detailed study on “housework trends”, researchers have concluded that husbands create an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. Duh-uh. Lisa’s been telling me that for years. Is this just because men are slobs or, as I [...]

Failure is an essential component of a free market system. Businesses that offer inferior service or product do not survive. Like the dodo, their design inevitably forces their extinction. In this way, government bailouts of banks, lending institutions, businesses and home buyers, short-circuit an essential dynamic of the free market and circumvent the natural consequences [...]

We’re on the back end of a 15 year re-fi mortgage and, with the housing market tumbling bigtime out here in SoCal, Lisa and I figured we’d leverage our assets, rent our home, and buy another. At the moment, one-time half-million dollar houses are in the low 300’s and, with foreclosures everywhere, there’s been way [...]

I finally got around to seeing Once, and I’ve got to say it lived up to the hype. Perhaps “hype” is the wrong word. Yes, the little Irish indie, filmed on a meager (by Hollywood standards) $100K budget, garners a whopping 97% Rotten Tomato rating. The movie also made lots of year end “Best” lists, [...]

Following is more evidence that atheists are an angry bunch. After posting comments from Stuart Blessman, a blogger who’d attended an advanced screening of Expelled, Jeffrey Overstreet’s Looking Closer Journal was inundated with pissed off anti-theists. The documentary explores the Intelligent Design debate, and that particular screening involved a surprise visit from notable atheist Richard [...]