Those of you who have Xbox 360s, comment with your gamertag and we’ll send you an invite to play TONIGHT at 9:30 pm! That’s soon! This is a nice chance to have some good, community based fun. Invite your friends over to your house and play split screen while Alan pwns each and every one of them, and I literally turn the other way and run from him. Read more

This week everyone’s talking about Susan Boyle, 47-year-old contestant on Britain’s Got Talent, who apparently shocked the world by having talent unaccompanied by supermodel looks. At first, when I saw the clip (and Boyle does have an amazing voice, so it’s worth a listen) I thought people were shocked, surprised, and excited because someone on a reality show actually had talent. Then I realized that they were actually shocked, surprised, and excited because they expected that someone who isn’t “pretty”... Read more

Should we play to win, or not? Read more

Special Programming Note: The Christ and Pop Culture Podcast, which normally publishes on Friday morning, will be delayed until later today. Thanks for your patience! Read more

Gov. Rick Perry told reporters that Texas might consider seceding from the Union if Washington’s tax and spend policies continue. Such an idea is, quite simply, silly. Further, I would say it is impossible. In the U.S. a state only exists as long as it is part of the Union. There is no such thing as a state leaving the very entity that undergirds its existence (contra the South’s argument in the Civil War). There is no succession; there is... Read more

The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been terminated. I guess Ben will have to move on to The Legend of the Seeker. Read more