Archive for July, 2006

Aphrodisiac

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

“The first bite into the yolk isn’t so bad. But then I see it. The little head with the little eyes, closed as if in prayer, the barely shaped wings crossed angelically across its chest. There is little left to do but bite off its face.” Globe and Mail reporter Deirdre Kelly, on the Filipino […]

The hard questions

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

“GM boss Rick Wagoner’s statement about GM’s problems is ridiculous. He claims that labor, pensions, and health care are bigger issues than product. How can a car company deal with those issues if they don’t sell cars people want? How hard is this? Cadillac is doing great. Chevy needs to […]

Worldliness in the church

Monday, July 10th, 2006

“The Great Commission is not a marketing manifesto.” John MacArthur

Tags: christianity, marketing, religion

The Inappropriate Spider-Man

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

“Honestly, the quips. Quipping [is] not the easiest thing. Spidey likes to talk, particularly during fights where he uses it as a distraction and he has to be funny. Instead of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, he’s sort of ‘The Inappropriate Spider-Man.’” Writer Jeff Loeb, on the most challenging thing about tackling Spider-Man

Tags: comics, […]

Bad science and bad religion

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

“The problem with studying religion scientifically is that you do violence to the phenomenon by reducing it to basic elements that can be quantified, and that makes for bad science and bad religion.”
Dr. Richard Sloan, professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University

Tags: biology, religion, science, statistics