I’ve Been Keeping A Secret
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Month: April 2012
Depicting Christians
Over at the Atlantic, Eleanor Barkhorn complains that the closeted young Christian characters of Blue Like Jazz depict rather than shatter stereotypes about evangelical Christians in the movies. For her, the promise of the movie was to present a positive,… Continue Reading
Green Lights & Toilets
{In light of Russell’s recent Tuesday Question post, I thought I would reproduce a Hit Coffee post on environmental correctness} Tim Noah suggests that Romney’s attack on the light bulb regulation that will retire the incandescents is misguided, and that… Continue Reading
The Clan vs SCU
I recently wrote about the lawsuits involving the MPAA, DGA, ClearPlay, and CleanFlicks. Now I am going to write why the whole thing was eye-opening to me. In the late 90’s and early aughts, some friends and I (the core… Continue Reading
Turnabout
So I spent a couple of hours equipping Soffit House with a special cats-only access tube between the converted closet in one bedroom to the lower cabinet in the hallway which I also spent an astonishingly long amount of time… Continue Reading
Monday Trivia #54
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, DC, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming have more of these per-capita than the nation as a whole. The six states with… Continue Reading
DGA & MPAA vs. ClearPlay & CleanFlicks
It’s a bit weird to be writing a post about lawsuits that occurred and were resolved years ago, especially since I am not the lawyer that Burt is. But the cases I am writing about had a lasting effect on… Continue Reading
Brilliant Post, Gone (Update: Found!)
I just wanted everyone to know that I have a brilliant post on the whole Derbyshire thing. Completely brilliant. Apparently, I didn’t save it? My brilliance has been completely undermined by myself. Story of my life… (Of course, if I… Continue Reading
Apologia
I’m not normally one to apologize for light posting. Rather, for those of you wondering where the hell I’ve been, know that three things have been eating at me: Pneumonia Depositions Skyrim Pneumonia has kept me down and at home. Where… Continue Reading
Monday Trivia #53
Descenting order: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Alabama, DC, North Carolina, Nebraska, Florida, Delaware, Tennessee, Iowa, Mississippi, Ohio, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Oregon, Minnesota, Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming, Massachusetts, Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, California, Michigan,… Continue Reading