The Genetic Lottery: God’s Sense Of Humour In Action

It turns out that my cousin–newly married, as of yesterday–runs triathalons.
I get exhausted watching edited triathalon coverage on television.
Now that I think about it, we’re all united by diarrhea. The triathaletes have that “losing control of all bodily functions” thing that sometimes happens and the portly bookworms now have alli.
I guess it all [...]

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Everybody Lies (?)

I’ve got a doctor’s appointment looming. And believe me, there is no other, better, word for it than “looming” because I hate going to the doctor.
This woman was recommended to me by Terry Heaton, which makes her the first GP in Nashville I’ve seen that’s actually recommended by something other than my finger eenie-meenieing [...]

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Der Juden Ist Verboten

Why haven’t I written about the Fat Friends Make You Fatter story before now? I’ll tell you why. Because I have something very serious to say and I didn’t want it lost in the floodtide of joke-y posts by introverted bloggers with the inevitable “this is why I have no friends” punchline. [...]

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A Night At The Opera

On my visit to Indiana, my parents treated me to a night of regional community theatre. Now, I love theatre and once hoped to make a living at it. Then I realised I didn’t want that life, so now I just content myself with going to plays and jealously critiquing the performances. [...]

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There Are No Fat Secondhand Roses

Over at MCB, we’re having a chat about buying clothes from thrift stores.
I was a property master for a couple of plays back in high school, and thus got introduced to buying things from secondhand stores. You never knew what treasure you’d find in the dimly lit rows of the Ft.Wayne Salvation Army. [...]

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Maybe Not, But I Think This Is Sexy

An ad campaign in Brasil features fat women in famous pop-culture sexual iconography. The tagline “Men’s preferences will never change” says it all.
Eat the light yogurt because fat women aren’t sexy, and men will never think they are.
So I’m not a man, but frankly I think some of the photos are still sexy. [...]

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“SO INCREDIBLY FAT!!!”

I’m not a fan of the new Leslie Bennetts book, The Feminine Mistake. As a libertarian I think life works best when people make their own choices informed by their faith, family and friends. Live on a commune; work on Wall St.–whatever you and your support network think is best is [...]

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Man, There Sure Are A Lot More Black People Nowadays

UPDATE:  Feel free to just skip this post.   I should have followed my normal rule and sat on it for at least an hour.   I overreacted.   Since I don’t delete whole posts I can’t delete it.   But I do want to run it with a giant flashing “I was in a really bad unrelated mood” [...]

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Sad Truths

Well, I think after reading more in depth about Fred, I’m firmly back on the Ron Paul bandwagon. I just don’t see Fred as my ideological counterpart in this race. Regardless, I think it’s time for me to vote outside the box for once. I’m really tired of picking the [...]

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Weigh-Down Workshop: A Response To Lu

I’m not going to be afraid of a pint-sized prophet out in Franklin, folks. I’m not even going to be afraid of her lawyers. Because when we’re here speaking the truth about matters of Faith I’m claiming the blood of Christ.
Good. Now that we’ve got that bit of family business out [...]

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