The surprisingly truthful memoir from one of the great tennis players, Andre Agassi has set the tennis world abuzz. It is filled with revelations of drug use, getting away with a positive test, using a hairpiece to maintain his image, endless grudges and more. However, it is his comments on Michael Chang that have most caught my interest. The issue ( Read more... )

I saw a bumper sticker as I went into Freddie's the other day. It was all neon colored and read: Jesus is the answer. "Ah yes," I wondered, "but what is the question?" (And is this answer remotely as cool as 42?) Ironically enough, at the time I was indeed thinking about a question, and it was not 6 * 7 , um, 8. I was thinking about a school ( Read more... )

A few days back I ran into an email exchange in the bullosphere blogisphere between "bestselling atheist" (LOL! Like WTF?) Sam Harris (whom I'd never heard of, or possibly had forgotten) and Andrew Sullivan, the gay Republican and apparent halfwit doofus who I wish I'd never heard of, or had forgotten. He somehow became famous, despite his ( Read more... )

Dinosaurs are a test for the righteous!

In reply to a comment by perkyshai I verbalized starting my own non-religion. Why? Well, I wanted to make a point. It all started with a discussion about the Muslim call to prayer. Well, at the risk of being contrary (Who me? Never!), I wanted to say that I don't want to hear any call to prayer from any religion. I don't want the five calls to prayer a ( Read more... )