February 2012
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Timex Easy Reader: An Update
Last March I blogged about my early impressions of my then recently purchased Timex Easy Reader wristwatch. That blog post has gone on to become one of my most widely read entries in all of the years I’ve been blogging, and I wanted to give an update.
In that last blog entry I mentioned that Lady Jessica and had matching his and hers Easy Readers. Today I’m still wearing mine, but she...
September 2011
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Still Seeking 9/11 Truth →
If you click on the title above you’ll be taken to a blog entry I wrote on this day two years ago, wherein I discuss why I’m a 9/11 Truther and what the 9/11 Truth movement is all about. As we come to the 10th anniversary of this dreadful day, we need to fight for the truth harder than ever. The further away from the event we get, the more it passes into memory and the less people care...
August 2011
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Liberty On Screen
It’s finally here! I’ve just completed my first full week of blog posts on my new blog, Liberty On Screen. It’s a place for me to combine three of my loves: writing, movies/TV, and libertarian thought into regularly updated blog where I discuss themes of liberty (or a lack thereof) in popular movies and TV shows. Topics this week include Transformers 3, and the Star Trek episode,...
July 2011
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Coming Soon...
For a while now I’ve wanted to start a website where my film and TV interests and my libertarian interests can merge. In other words, a place where I can write about movies and TV shows and point out both the libertarian and distinctly un-libertarian ideas they convey. I think I’m finally close. I registered a domain name tonight that I think will be the one. In fact, I was shocked it...
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The Universal Soldier
“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.” — Albert Einstein (via lewrockwell.com)
I was introduced to the Buffy Sainte-Marie song, “The Universal Soldier” in 2008 when Ron Paul asked Aimee Allen to sing it at his Rally for the Republic at the Target Center in Minneapolis. I had almost forgotten all about it until the Donovan cover came up randomly in my...
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Dark Of The Moon?
Wait. So the new Transformers movie is subtitled “Dark of the Moon?” I’ve been thinking the whole time that it was “Dark Side of the Moon.” Maybe it’s Pink Floyd’s fault, but the latter just rolls off the tongue better. “Dark of the Moon” just doesn’t sound right. Or is it just me?
June 2011
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Berry College To Add Football?
A couple of years ago, my alma mater made the jump from NAIA athletics to NCAA Division III. Berry College currently has no football team, nor has it had one in recent memory. The conversation has come up many times about whether Berry ever would, or should add football to the list of sports it competes in. Not much has come of that thus far, but that could be changing soon.
Today, the...
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No More Bond
If you’ve been following my blog entries lately, you know that I’ve been reviewing several James Bond movies. John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been going through them movie by movie on their podcast, The Talk Show, and when Netflix added them to their instant streaming service I decided to play along. Well, the fun had to stop sometime, right? It seems as though Netflix has removed...
May 2011
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The Rapture
Last week, the social networking world was all a-buzz with talk of the rapture. For those who don’t know, the rapture refers to a time when we Christians believe that Jesus will return and take his followers to heaven. The Bible certainly has some things to say about the end times. Here’s what Jesus said in Matthew 24:30-31:
30 “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in...
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A Child In Need Of Adoption
Our friends the Kramers are in the process of adopting a little boy named Ivan from overseas. The child pictured here is a different little boy who is also in need of adoption that the Kramers have been praying for. His name is Nikita. This is what Karen Kramer had to say about him on her blog:
His blond hair and beautiful blue eyes immediately caught our attention. I was also taken back by...
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Review: Never Say Never Again
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
What a great year 1983 was! Not one, but two James Bond movies were released that year. How fitting...
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Review: Octopussy
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Oh, boy. If we’re rating Bond movies on a simple “this one is good” and...
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The Christian Response
When President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed, the reactions of many of the Christians I follow on Twitter were interesting. I saw a retweet of a person calling attention to Ezekiel 18:23:
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
Ezekiel is not a book I’ve spent...
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Review: For Your Eyes Only
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Boy, it’s a lot easier (and more fun) to write about a movie that’s bad, like our last...
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The Photos
From CNN:
Despite mounting pressure from some lawmakers and dissent within the ranks of his top advisers, President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body, a White House spokesman said Wednesday.
“It is not in our national security interest … to allow these images to become icons to rally opinion against the United States,” White House...
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The Burial At Sea
Laurence Vance has some questions about bin Laden’s death:
The government is reporting that it buried the body of bin Laden at sea. Conspiracy theorists – and rightly so – are going to have a field day with this for years to come. How could the government do something so stupid as dispose of bin Laden’s body so quickly? Are we just supposed to have faith in the government when it says it...
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Review: Moonraker
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
John Gruber has mentioned on The Talk Show podcast that it must have been the success of Star...
April 2011
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Berry College Campus Ravaged By Wednesday Storm
Berry College, alma mater to Lady Jessica and me, was hit hard by a storm Wednesday morning. Alex Middleton reporting for Viking Fusion (Berry student media) has the details:
According to the Berry Office of Public Relations, a “microburst” of a storm that only lasted for approximately 15 to 20 minutes ravaged the campus, starting around 8:30 a.m.
“I expect there are hundreds of trees down, ”...
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Richard Kiel's Testimony
Speaking of Richard Kiel (Jaws in the Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker), the coolest thing I learned all week is that he is a Christ-follower. My friend Kevin Perry, who once saw Kiel speak at his church, filled me in on this.
In his testimony on his website, Kiel talks about how with success came an addiction to alcohol. After the death of a fellow actor, Kiel decided he had to...
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Review: The Spy Who Loved Me
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Wow, this is without question the best Roger Moore James Bond movie out of the first three, and may...
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The BITS Program
My alma mater, Berry College, is unique in that in addition to education, it has a big focus on student work. It’s all part of Berry’s view of education as being of the head, the heart, and the hands. I think I’d be right in saying that most Berry students have on-campus jobs.
When I was preparing all of the paperwork for attending Berry I told them that I could do any job but...
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Review: The Man With The Golden Gun
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
What a difference a year makes! The Man With The Golden Gun is better than Live And Let Die in...
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Nine
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
I mentioned in my review of season eight that that season felt like a transitionary time for our heroes, and season nine is definitely different. It’s funny, I feel like I really liked season nine for the most part, and yet in looking over the GateWorld.net episode summaries not one episode stood out as worth singling out as being really good...
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Review: Live And Let Die
For their podcast The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin have been watching the James Bond movies in order and discussing them on the show. Now that Netflix has added the bulk of the series to its instant watch library, I thought I’d play along. Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
I hadn’t seen Live And Let Die in years, which is probably a good thing. If I’d...
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Wil Wheaton And The TSA
Wil Wheaton is best known for playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but lately he’s also become something of an Internet/social media darling. Here’s how he starts out his blog entry on a recent experience with the TSA:
Yesterday, I was touched — in my opinion, inappropriately — by a TSA agent at LAX.
I’m not going to talk about it in detail...
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Eight
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Looking back on it now, season eight was a bit of an odd season. It definitely feels like a transitionary time for our characters. O’Neill is promoted to the rank of general and put in charge of Stargate Command, leaving SG-1 as a threesome under the command of Colonel Carter. In a later season a joke is made implying Richard Dean Anderson...
March 2011
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Timex Easy Reader
I recently blogged about my desire to get back into the watch-wearing game, and that to that end I had ordered matching Timex Easy Readers for Lady Jessica and I. (Timex has them in both men’s and women’s sizes.) Well, I’ve been wearing mine for a little more than a week now, and I’d like to offer my early impressions.
As I mentioned in that recent piece, despite being a...
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Seven
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Boy, the longer I put off writing these SG-1 reviews, the harder they get, chiefly because it feels like forever ago that Lady Jessica and I watched this season. At this point we’re actually already working our way through season one of Stargate Atlantis. At least I have the fabulous GateWorld to remind me what happened.
Overall I feel like...
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Time To Start Wearing A Watch Again
My first watch (at least the first one I remember getting) was a Mickey Mouse watch when I was six. It was black with a white face. Mickey was in the middle and his hands were the hour and minute hands. Something very much like this. From that point on, probably all the way through college or thereabouts I almost always wore a watch.
My dream watch as a kid was a calculator watch. I know,...
February 2011
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Six
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Wow, It has been a loooonnggg time since I sat down to write one of these. In fact, this afternoon Lady Jessica and I watched the last episode of season nine, and here I am just sitting down to write my season six review!
As I looked back through the episode summaries of this season over at GateWorld, I was struck by the fact that none of them...
January 2011
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Taking That Leap Of Faith
My friend Justin has an excellent blog post up today on the paralysis of analysis that we fall prey to as Christians. We ask ourselves if the step we’re contemplating making is really God’s will, or our own flesh, or the enemy’s goading. Here a taste of what Justin had to say:
so many decisions, and none i have felt confident making. so i sit. paralyzed. instead of doing...
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Five
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
This was a pretty decent season. We finally got to see Apophis meet his end, and though unfortunately we got another episode of replicators in the process, it was cool to see them crawling all over Apophis’s personal force field as his ship crashed into a planet. Neat.
Speaking of the replicators, season five did manage to make them even...
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More Thoughts On The SG-1 Iris
In yesterday’s post I described why I felt like the iris, while a sensible idea, is implemented in a goofy way on the show with CGI and that I don’t understand where it goes when it retracts. sirandrw reblogged that part of my post and added his thoughts:
The iris retracts slightly behind the Stargate.
I don’t think so. They’ve said on the show that when closed it sits...
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Four
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Ok, so I’ve been a bad Stargate reviewer of late. Jessica and I are actually already watching season seven, and here I am just sitting down to write my review of season four! In fact, I’ve just been glancing through an episode guide to re-familiarize myself with this season.
First off, they got rid of the boring season three opening...
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Let Rover Die
Don’t worry, we’re not talking about a dog here, but rather Murfreesboro’s public transportation system. A recent article on the WGNS website highlights the fact that due to potential cuts to the federal budget, there may not be enough money to keep the city buses rolling. In an audio clip Mayor Bragg essentially attributes this to the American people wanting more fiscal...
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Season Three
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
Ah… The joys of being able to watch a TV season straight through without all that waiting around a week or a summer to see the next episode. Prior to Netflix we would have had to buy a season of a show or borrow it from a friend, both of which we have done, to have such an experience.
Season three of SG-1 was good. I did feel it dropped off...
December 2010
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Review: Stargate SG-1 Seasons One And Two
Warning! Spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk!
I decided to just review the first two seasons of Stargate SG-1 together as they really feel like one big season, and that’s a good thing. The producers didn’t do anything to screw up a good formula in season two.
SG-1 picks up where the Stargate movie left off, but there’s just enough different that it feels like a parallel...
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Stargate: SG-1
Stargate SG-1 has, up until recently, been a series that I’ve only really had a passing interest in over the years. I’ve watched several episodes along the way, but never taken the opportunity to really dive into the series. Now, Lady Jessica and I are attempting to do just that. Netflix has all ten seasons available via streaming, and I’ve got all of them lined up in our instant...
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The Emotions Of Childbirth - Dad's View
I don’t really recall actively feeling nervous about becoming a dad until about the time we got in the car to go to the hospital. That’s when it got real, and I had a mild panic attack. Otherwise for most of those forty weeks leading up to Noah’s birth it all felt pretty emotionally distant. Sure, I was excited at the knowledge that I was going to have a kid, but no matter how...
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Introducing Noah
On Monday, November 29, 2010, the Lord blessed Jessica and me with the birth of our first child: Noah Paul Sherrod. He measured 7.8 pounds and 21.25 inches. We are delighted to have finally met the little guy after waiting for his arrival all year. I’m so excited to be his daddy!
The first couple of weeks have been challenging. Learning the ropes of parenting a newborn is a daunting task,...
November 2010
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I Won't Be Flying Anytime Soon
Heard about the new “security” procedures the Transportation Security Administration has been rolling out recently? It basically goes something like this: Airports all around the country are seeing the installation of a new type of scanner that gives TSA screeners an x-ray-like look under your clothes, presumably to check to see if you’re carrying anything they disapprove of. In...
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Why I Don't Really Miss Cable TV That Much
With a baby on the way, Lady Jessica and I have had to start thinking about ways to cut our expenses. In budgetary discussions in the past, the notion that cable would be the easiest expense to cut always lingered with Jessica being in favor of booting Comcast, and me wanting to keep it. Now that Noah Sherrod is on the way, we have parted ways with Comcast cable TV (though for now we’re...
September 2010
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I Am A 9/11 Truther →
Here’s a link to a blog post I wrote last year about my views on 9/11. Whatever your reactions, you’re welcome to leave them in a comment. I think we need to have a dialog about this in America.
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A Good Sign Of An Advancing Program
From Mark Green at GoMiddle.com:
On Thursday night Middle Tennessee had to opportunity to show Minnesota and the nation that it had arrived. The team fought hard and showed Minnesota that it deserved to be on the same field, but an opportunity to beat Minnesota slipped away. If you are angry, good - it’s a sign of an advancing program. If you’re feeling good about the effort - then...
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August 2010
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