10 simple life hacks in 2 minutes. Pretty cool.
Do you suffer from Daily Hallucinating Delusional Syndrome? Chances are 100% you do.
"A Chinese friend once insisted that of course 20-something Americans all get news boyfriends and girlfriends every single week: she'd seen it on Friends, and Seinfeld, and Sex and the City, and a half dozen other TV shows. They couldn't all be lying." From an Atlantic article about the surprises foreigners experience upon arriving in the U.S. My youngest sister, who works with refugees in Austin, alerted me to this article.
Have you heard that Chic-fil-a gives to "anti-gay" organizations? Want to know what gay rights advocates regard as "anti-gay" organizations?
"[Paul] Ryan understands that the longer we ignore the debt crisis and postpone serious budget cuts—the liberal equivalent of denying global warming—the more painful the reckoning will be. There’s nothing compassionate about that kind of irresponsibility. Maybe, like me, you were raised in a liberal household. You don’t agree with conservative ideas on social or foreign policy. But this is why God made Republicans: to force a reality check when Democrats overpromise and overspend" (William Saleten).
"There would often be [steamboat] passengers too, getting or getting off, accompanied sometimes by valises or trunks. I could never get enough of watching them. They had, to me, the enchantment of distance about them" (Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry). Don't you love that? The enchantment of distance about them.
Could the mere selection of a font influence us to believe one thing rather than another? To be taken seriously Errol Morris of the NYT discovers that you should use Baskerville and avoid "the loser font," Comic Sans.
Danny Akin answers the question, "Is it true Jesus never addressed same-sex marriage?"
Every year, the Oxford Dictionary online adds a few new words to their dictionary. Here are ten new words for you to master and work into your conversation today.
Amen, Marty Duren: "To All Media Outlets, Reporters, Writers and Editors: It is abundantly clear to most Americans that the 'Westboro Baptist Church' is neither 'Baptist' nor a 'church' according to any commonly accepted meaning of either word. As a Christ follower, and a long time church attender, I enter this plea to stop using the phrase 'Westboro Baptist Church' in favor of the more accurate 'the Westboro cult.'"
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