Hal Lindsay, call your office. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, Christians who worried about the use of technology for totalitarian purposes would speculate about nefarious plots with apocalyptic overtones, usually involving Euro-bureaucrats and a Big Scary-Sounding Supercomputer to be nicknamed “the Beast”.
I guess it’s time for such stories to start the rounds again, ’cause this technological proposal is enough to creep me out.
Month: November 2003
Zzzzz
Where is everyone? The food coma can’t have set in early.
A CL First
I don’t recall ever seeing a football post here.
Turns out it’s open season on the Redskins.
Be careful not to speed in Washington D.C.; the police are handing out
Redskins tickets.
Q: What’s the difference between the Redskins and a dollar bill?
A: You can still get four quarters out of a dollar.
Q: What do you call 47 people watching an NFL playoff game on TV?
A: The Washington Redskins.
Q: What’s the difference between O.J. Simpson and the Redskins?
A: O.J. Simpson at least had a defense.
Announcement from public address system at FedEx Field:
“Will the parents who lost your eleven kids here at the stadium please
come get them? They are beating the Redskins 14-0.”
Q: What do the Redskins and possums have in common?
A: Both play dead at home and get killed on the road.
Q: How do you keep the Redskins out of your yard?
A: Put up goal posts.
Q: What do you call a Redskin with a Super Bowl Ring?
A: A thief.
Q: Why was Steve Spurrier upset when the Redskins’ playbook was stolen?
A: He wasn’t finished coloring in it yet.
C.S. Lewis: 11/22/1963
The world didn’t notice his death the first time around either. Joseph Loconte remembers. (NYT, LRR)
‘Tis the season to say Humbug
…to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Here’s what I wrote about it last year, and some comments from elsewhere on the net.
Thanks to Mark Shea for the reminder.