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June 2008

June 14, 2008

How Barack Obama Sees John McCain

This is: A. How Barack Obama sees John McCain B. How John McCain sees Bill...

June 13, 2008

What Obama Looks Like In Hillary’s Dreams

This is: A. How Hillary Clinton sees Barack Obama: cute; makes everyone feel good; lacks legs;...

June 12, 2008

What Hillary Looks Like In Obama’s Dreams

This is: A. What Hillary Clinton looks like in Barack Obama's dreams B. Batman in...

June 05, 2008

How John Wayne proposed to his third wife. (Bonus: a pic of her apparently haunted bananas flambe!)

First I shared with you Pilar Wayne's recipe for Salmon Mousse (Why John Wayne walked...

June 03, 2008

Is this why John Wayne walked funny?

In the laundry room of my apartment complex is a chair and fold-out table...

April 2008

April 28, 2008

If We WERE Descended From Apes, At Least I Wouldn’t Have To Work

Ahh, Monday Morning. The sun is rising, the birds are singing--and I'm bitterly angry at Adam,...

April 10, 2008

I Was Asked To Carry The Olympic Torch!

This morning at 2 a.m. my phone rang. A low, husky voice asked if I am...

April 09, 2008

Me, The Gym, and My Hamster Mike

I joined a gym in early January of this year. I'd gained more weight than I'm...

April 06, 2008

Death By Blogging!

I blog quite a bit, and I certainly do experience the constant stress of having...

March 2008

March 03, 2008

Venus Spinning Backwards: The Christians’ Achilles Heel?

It must be admitted that atheists make some good points about why and how a...

February 2008

February 07, 2008

My Lenten Story Remains Untold. Thanks, Starbucks.

Two weeks ago an Episcopal priest phoned to ask if I'd be interested in leading a five-week Lenten study...

February 05, 2008

Writing In Jesus’ Name. Literally.

Writing about the whole "How To Make a Living Writing" thing has lately had me...

February 04, 2008

How To Be Happily Unemployed

Have you recently lost your job? Fear not: It happens to everyone. You might recall...

January 2008

January 31, 2008

My Giant Baby Head

One of my earliest babyhood memories is realizing that my head was so huge I...

January 24, 2008

Hello, Students at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research!

Hello, students at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research! Your teacher (whose...

January 02, 2008

New Year’s Resolution: Take Over the World

My New Year's resolution this year is to take over the world. Whoo-hoo! I can...

December 2007

December 27, 2007

“Bad Word Bug Wiggles?” What the …?

In the last three days, these are what someone somewhere typed into a search engine...

December 13, 2007

How To Crash a Christmas Party

Ah, the Christmas season. What a great time for party-going! The problem is that it's difficult...

November 2007

November 13, 2007

My Terrible Fortune

Last night my wife Cat and I went out to a Chinese restaurant. So guess...

October 2007

October 16, 2007

John, Delayed

I'm not a Bible scholar. I'm not a seminary student or graduate. I used to...

September 2007

September 12, 2007

Oh, Boy. I’ve Been “Tagged.”

If my friend Jaime Windon hadn't done this to me, I wouldn't be ... having...

September 05, 2007

Updating George Carlin’s 7 Words You Can’t Say On Television

Yes, George's original seven words are Definite Cursing. But so what? You hear half those words on...

August 2007

August 09, 2007

Famous men in history trying to pick up women

New research into the romantic lives of famous men throughout history has verified what social...

August 07, 2007

What’s in a Word: The Truth Behind Men’s Personal Ads

The post you are looking for is included in HA!, a full-sized collection of five...

July 2007

July 06, 2007

Top 10 Ways to Become a Better Husband

So sorry for the re-linky inconvenience, but the post you're looking for is 10 Tips for...

June 2007

June 30, 2007

When punctuation makes the difference between a second date and a restraining order

Because I co-authored a book about punctuation, Comma Sense: A FUN-damental Guide to Punctuation, I sometimes get e-mails...

June 22, 2007

Troubador pants

This is a guy is wearing troubador pants, a giant maroon hankerchief, and a belt that doesn't fit....

June 14, 2007

Rampaging Squirrel Injures Three in Germany!

My ever-hilarious friend Steve MacDonald (he's the Evangelism Books editor for Christianbook.com; I met him...

June 09, 2007

Zinc Phosphide Used on San Diego’s Killer Attack Squirrels!

Remember my little "Attack of the Killer Squirrels" saga? Remember how it (must have) seemed...

June 08, 2007

Grilled by a Truck

An item in today's news (which is updated here) tells how a 21-year-old guy (with the...