Have you ever heard of a Sea Kitten? No? Me either, not until a member of the Rabble called me a few moments ago and told me where to find them.
“Sea Kittens”… it’s a new campaign from the wonderful folks at PETA, who are so concerned about our world’s fish population they’ve devised [...]

I found out this morning that Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in the foyer of his church yesterday.
For those of you who don’t know who Dr. Tiller is, and why I care, I’d like to take you back to 1991, to the Midwest city of Wichita, Kansas. National right-wing and fundamental Christian [...]

What kind of social commentary does it make that Parker Brothers has teamed with Toys R Us to begin sales of a new style Ouija Board.  The updated fortune-telling tool, which has been long purported to allow its users to contact spirits who can pass them information from the Great Beyond, is now available in [...]

So, I applied for college today, and in doing so, also filled out my FAFSA.  For those who don’t know, the FAFSA is the Federal Application for Financial Student Assistance (I think).  Basically, it’s the application that will determine if you’re getting a Pell Grant, SEOG, and Stafford loans.  It was a long application, which [...]

It was a long time ago, maybe as much as three years, now, when I first outted myself as a affectionado of the weird.  I can’t tell you quite when it began, but there must be some kind of reason for my attraction to that which is truly odd.  Whatever method might be behind my [...]

A friend of mine used to talk about an idea he called “The Jesus Box”, in which he suggested that the twenty-first century church venerates their own notion of who Jesus was rather than Jesus himself.  In other words, they create for themselves a little Precious Moments-esque Jesus-image, assign it a set of appreciated attributes, [...]

Ah, school.  There are times when I miss those cinder-block corridors, bubbling beakers, bunsen burners, basketballs, and the smell of sweat in the locker room.  Then I beat my head against the wall to remind myself just how much I disliked it when I was there, and my eyes are opened once again to the [...]

Maybe I shouldn’t have been offended by this.  I don’t know.  I’ve been reading Gaping Void off and on for five years now, and most of the time find his humor to match pretty closely with mine.  This, however, well, I guess it just struck a nerve.  You see, I live in Small Town, U.S.A., [...]

I am not a wealthy man. Cue the music from Fiddler on the Roof if you like – after all, most of us would like more, at least a small amount. I’m not exactly jonesin’ for a Powerball win, but a little extra goes a long way. There is food to buy. [...]

Al Gore’s new movie, The Inconvenient Truth, is in the theaters now, and liberals, treehuggers, and disciples of The Way of Clinton are absolutely eating it up. But the truth behind this “Truth” is that it’s all based on a lie – the lie of global warming and the destructive effects we, human beings, [...]