Quran Read-A-Long: The Cow 177-182 Creates Two Ways of Keeping Wills Honest

The First Half What a wonderful opening verse! At a basic level it seems to speak of what piety is. Is piety related to which direction you face (presumably for prayer), which is to say a religious matter? No. Piety is about those few fundamentally important beliefs (God, Last Day, etc.) and in being a [...]

Kenny Saves Heaven from Satan During a Right to Life Debate in South Park Episode 904, “Best Friends Forever”

With the release of the new PSP and the accompanying game, Heaven vs. Hell, Kenny is found to be the greatest player on earth. Thus, God strikes him with a truck so that he can come to Heaven and defend it against the minions of Hell. That’s right: God designed the game to find Heaven’s [...]

Hilarious Motivational Posters about Education, Common Sense and Baboons

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Fun with the Bible: A New Year’s Exhortation from the Book of Proverbs

In a few days it will be the New Year, and I’d like to wish each and every one of my readers a very happy new year. I hope that it’s your happiest, healthiest and most successful new year to date! On that note, let’s take a look at a few lines from the book [...]

Zen Talk: Misery Ends Where Friendliness Begins

“Let one be friendly and well mannered; then one will have much happiness and put an end to misery.” Could you imagine if we were all – and I mean every person on earth – friendly and well mannered? Buddha says that would bring an end to misery. What do you think? It’s certainly worth [...]

Brad Pitt Gives a Great Performance in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” was about as close as the author ever came to writing anything science fiction-like. To be fair, however, there was no attempt at a scientific explanation, as fictitious as it all may have been. Science fiction or not, the first time I saw the [...]

Around the World Pic: Texas Honkey Tonk Cantina in Tallin, Estonia

Oh, the memories of the Honkey Tonk Texas Cantina in Tallin, Estonia. Tallin, by the way, is a magnificent little capital on the Baltic. We ended up spending three days there, which was most unexpected considering the speed with which we had been moving. One day, as we were walking around Tallin, we stumbled upon [...]

Quran Read-A-Long: We Learn about the first Halal Laws in the Cow 168-176

Making the Dietary Laws as Serious as Possible I think that the opening line here begs a question: how do we know what things of the earth are lawful and good to be eaten? That is, what’s Halal? As we read on and see that verses 168b-171 all relate to not following Satan and only [...]

Mr. Hankey Saves Kyle and Christmas in the First South Park Christmas Episode, 110, “Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo”

It’s the first South Park Christmas episode ever. And you know what that means! It’s time to meet Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo, the latest and greatest Holiday Season icon who’s there for everyone, no matter what s/he celebrates. As long as you have a high fiber diet then Mr. Hankey will be coming to [...]

Ike Broflovski is Taken to Saddam Hussein’s Canada in South Park Episode 715, “Christmas in Canada”

When Ike Broflovski’s birth-parents interrupt quiet, family Hanukah prayers and insist on taking Ike back to Canada by decree of the new Canadian Prime Minister, Sheila and Gerald Broflovski are devastated. Cartman tells Kyle that this is what he gets for being Jewish at Christmas time: some Jesus revenge. In a show of unprecedented good [...]