“I am a lost soul looking for refuge in a land that is familiar to me. To the one who finds this ... please find me and help this lost sheep.” One of the many anonymous notes found in bottles washed up on the shore. USA Today has the story on a man who has collected the bottles over the years.
“Imagine a banker in the current financial crisis objecting when you name her job description. ‘I’m not a banker, I’m a cashier.’ You would be unimpressed. Or a Major League Baseball player seeking distance from the steroid scandal this way: ‘No no no, I’m not a baseball player, I’m a second baseman.’” That’s Jason Byassee, commenting on the futility—and the error—of those who say, “Oh, I’m not a Christian, I’m a follower of the Way.” Some good thoughts on “owning” the Body of Christ, flaws and all, past and present.
Bears are going bald in a German zoo. Maybe that’s why they killed those boys making fun of Elisha….
Onion: Oversensitive Quarterback Reads Too Much Into Defense
“Rejection can dramatically reduce a person's IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research." (New Scientist)
Roland Emmerich has destroyed a lot of landmarks in his career as a movie director, including the Vatican and the "Christ the Redeemer" statue over Rio de Janeiro in the recent flick 2012. But he won’t destroy Islamic sites in his films for fear of a fatwa. (Read the story here; and James Taranto of the WSJ Best of the Web has some worthy observations on Emmerich’s timidity here.)
“I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. I finally met people who walk the walk.” Sandra Bullock, on the Christian faith of Leigh Anne Touhy, whom she plays in the new film The Blind Side.
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