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March 2011

March 03, 2011

Why We Should All Know CPR

Probably, you were trained in CPR at some point in your life. For me, it...

December 2010

December 13, 2010

A Free Christmas Song Every Day

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November 2010

November 29, 2010

Cyber Monday on Amazon

I just bought my Christmas gift for myself. I suppose it's far too brazen for...

October 2010

October 19, 2010

Some Grammatical Pet Peeves

So, I'm grading papers now, which is not my favorite part of adjunct teaching but...

June 2010

June 22, 2010

Facebook Mail

I hate, hate, hate Facebook mail. You can't archive old messages, so you must either...

May 2010

May 12, 2010

Advertise Here

Do you you think that the readers of The Tony Jones Blog would be interested...

May 05, 2010

Get Your Hipster Emergent Glasses…CHEAP!

So, in all of the hullabaloo about stereotypical emergent white hipsters with cool eyeglasses, I...

April 2010

April 20, 2010

The Taj MaTwins

Like it or not, baseball is the most religious of games, and, in spite of...

February 2010

February 19, 2010

The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know

I'm a huge fan of TED. I don't mean my brother (though I am a...

February 10, 2010

One Year After Back Surgery

One year ago today, I went under the knife and had a microdiscectomy and semi-laminectomy. ...

December 2009

December 31, 2009

If You're Going to Get Sick in 2010…

...may you be afflicted with Stendhal Syndrome: Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome, Hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome,...

December 09, 2009

Hipster Emergent Eyeglasses – My Secret

In Dan Brown fashion, Andrew Jones has broken the code regarding the hipster, black-framed, emergent...

November 2009

November 28, 2009

Breaking: Scot McKnight Soon to Owe Me a Pizza

I hereby challenge uber-blogger and blindly loyal Chicago sports fan, Scot McKnight to a friendly...

November 25, 2009

Pumpkin Pie

My assignment for tomorrow is to make two pumpkin pies, one relatively spicey and one...

November 19, 2009

Stanley Fish Needs to Discover Netflix

There is a class of utterances that, when encountered, produces irritation, distress and, in some...

October 2009

October 22, 2009

Social Media for Pastors

Following up on Christianity21, we at JoPa Productions are developing a series of boot camps...

October 20, 2009

Ending Christian Euphemisms: “Unbiblical”

In our attempt to exterminate Christian euphemisms from our vocabulary, Nathan nominated thusly: "Unbiblical" when...

October 19, 2009

Ending Christian Euphemisms: “The Lord Laid It on My Heart”

I received loads of great comments about what Christian euphemisms we should drag, kicking and...

May 2009

May 09, 2009

A Poem for the Weekend

"I Took It as a Sign"Someone sent a band to my house,And it started playingAt...

May 05, 2009

Who Cut Off Van Gogh's Ear?

Apparently, Paul Gauguin, in a dispute over a prostitute.

April 2009

April 02, 2009

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

It's National Poetry Month, so here's my favorite poem, first introduced to me by my...

March 2009

March 16, 2009

How Clean ARE You?

The Washlet. Does it creep you out? And seriously, how many euphemisms can you use...

March 07, 2009

What Is the Credit Crisis?

Here it is, in about 11 minutes: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis...

March 02, 2009

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

As a co-alumnus of Dartmouth College, I feel a special connection to the good Doctor. ...

February 2009

February 19, 2009

Blacklisted by Moody!

So, I'm on a panel with one of the authors of an anti-emergent book at...

February 16, 2009

Gary Busey and Ed Young, Jr.

Separated at birth?You decide.

February 15, 2009

Mrs. Darwin Would Be Proud

Charles Darwin's wife, Emma, famously disliked her husband's theories, and he actually wrote On the...

February 12, 2009

What Would the Divinyls Do?

These Christians don't....um...you know...

February 12, 2009

Successful Surgery

Many thanks to all of my well-wishers. My semi-laminectomy/microdiscectomy was a success. The surgeon said...

February 06, 2009

Microdiscectomy

That's what awaits me next Wednesday, on the L4-L5 disc.