Category: Media

What’s in a Name? Part II:

 William  August 30, 2007  3 Comments on What’s in a Name? Part II:

What you call something is significant. In a much maligned recent miniseries on CNN, God’s Warriors, Christiane Amanpour, who produced and anchored the program, said the following while discussing martyrdom: To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because…

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If I Were a Superhero…

 William  November 18, 2006  1 Comment on If I Were a Superhero…

My wife has always thought of me as her hero (thank you my love!). She also has told me since we first met that I have a knight complex, that I am always ready to rescue damsels in distress (I…

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The Inclusivity of Hell

 William  October 1, 2006  0 Comments on The Inclusivity of Hell

One of the blogs I visit every so often (if you read my history I was Episcopal for 27 years), is the Midwest Conservative Journal, an ongoing critique of all things Episcopal. In a recent post, Christopher Johnson talked about…

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Copyrights But Were Afraid To Ask

 William  September 15, 2005  4 Comments on Everything You Wanted To Know About Copyrights But Were Afraid To Ask

If you write or blog and care about what happens to what you have made available there is one thing that you need to know the basics of: copyrights. I recently came across the end all and be all site…

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Do You Know Your U.S. States?

 William  May 24, 2005  4 Comments on Do You Know Your U.S. States?

I stumbled across this little game where you are challenged to place the various states onto a blank map of the United States. See if you can match my perfect score. It took me two efforts since I accidently dropped…

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Rimdims #4 “The Pope is Catholic”

 William  April 21, 2005

In a satirical look at the secular world’s reaction to the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope of the Catholic Church, Blimpish puts together a parody of a leading leftest liberal newspaper. Note: Some elements might be offensive to some…

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Quintessential Volkswagon Ad

 William  January 27, 2005

Bore Me, a site that tracks what it calls “viral emails”, not to be confused with viruses but instead emails (usually touting some film clip or other) that spread from person to person, making their subject momentarily famous or popular,…

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Images Of The Day

 William  November 10, 2004

This post has been updated/corrected with information from someone who was there (see the end of the post for the email I received from Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Zachary John Impastato). Images give substance and focus to our thoughts…

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GateKeepers, Gutenberg, And The New Media

 William  August 26, 2004

There is a war breaking out all over our culture. It is not between Islamists and defenders of the West though that war is real. It is not between Democrats and Republicans though sadly that war appears to be real…

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All Sail, No Anchor

 William  August 20, 2004  6 Comments on All Sail, No Anchor

I read George Will only sporadically, but I did catch his Wednesday article on Ignoring History In Iraq in the Washington Post. (Note: the link requires registration and will only work for two weeks or so when it will go…

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