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Mrs. Chaka and I have made the dangerous discovery of two hours of Star Trek (TOS and TNG) being broadcast each night. Last night's epis...

I read (on the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me blog ) that KFC introduced the Double Down because of complaints that there wasn't enough chi...

Blogging has suffered, what with the moving house, the many calls to AT&T trying to convince them to take my money, the computer dying, ...

Adam Graber directed me to this New York Times article about the consequences of digital (and hence, mashable) texts. The whole thing is i...

A little satire on Philippe the Postmodern Evangelist : "Read it again, more slowly this time. I want to hear the poetic forms and imag...

This makes me feel so conflicted about being an American. Disgusted? To a point. Proud of my country? Absolutely.

A while back I posted a massive regular expression that finds Bible cross references. Something like that must be behind Logos's RefTagg...

Christopher Lloyd, comedy writer, writes about his dad, David Lloyd , comedy writer. I had no idea that the man responsible for the immortal...

It's a privilege to bring you a guest post from Jon Acuff, Christian satirist extraordinaire, author of Stuff Christians Like . Like a l...

Descended Jesus played the man He stared into the abyss And for my sake, fell.

There's something telling in the horrible mangling of "medieval."

David Pogue's twofold review of the iPad assumes the Eloi/Morlock distinction (explained here ). Pogue doesn't use those words, but...