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 of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs,” Amanpour stated. “Really, martyrdom is actually something that…
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Christianity, Media
If I Were a Superhero…
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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 sometimes rescue men in distress too, or maybe I should say I help them with…
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Media, Personal, Philosophy
The Inclusivity of Hell
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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 finally giving up on any chance of redeeming the American Episcopal Church (ECUSA). I gave…
Blogging, Media, Technology
Everything You Wanted To Know About Copyrights But Were Afraid To Ask
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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 for copyrights and it is named COPYRIGHT.COM. Duh! I guess that one was pretty obvious.…
Media, Politics and Government
Do You Know Your U.S. States?
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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 one state 600 miles off the first go around.
Christianity, Humor, Media
Rimdims #4 “The Pope is Catholic”
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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 people. Hat-tip: Siris
Art, Literature and Entertainment, Islam, Media, Terrorism
Quintessential Volkswagon Ad
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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, has a spoof on a VW Polo commercial that demonstrates why terrorist car bombers should…
Conflict and War, Media
Images Of The Day
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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 about events. Some images come to define specific moments in history, searing their impression on…
Media, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
GateKeepers, Gutenberg, And The New Media
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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 also. No, it is between the former gatekeepers of information and expression and the new…
Media, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
All Sail, No Anchor
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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 into the paid archives). One sentence in the article caught my attention: A government that…