I Don’t

Last updated on: January 22, 2010 at 11:54 am By Fred Clark

I'm just trying to imagine a situationWhere we might have a real conversation "I Don't Ever Give Up," Patty Griffin"I Don't Feel Your Touch," Bruce Cockburn"I Don't Get It," Cowboy Junkies"I Don't Know How to Love Him," Yvonne Elliman"I Don't Like Mondays," Boomtown Rats"I Don't Mind at All," Bourgeois Tagg"I Don't Need You," Mightyhead"I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)," John Mayer"I Don't Wanna," The Call"I Don't Wanna Fall Away From You," Keith Green"I Don't Wanna Go on With You... Read more

Keep Big Government away from my defective strollers

Last updated on: January 21, 2010 at 4:26 am By Fred Clark

Not content with trying to tell private health insurance companies what they can and can't do, the jackbooted thugs of the Obama Administration are now meddling in the most sacred and intimate relationship of all, that between parents and their young children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is now telling families what kind of strollers they can and can't buy for their children. And, of course, because they hate business and free enterprise, they're trying to tell retailers what kind... Read more

TF: The Logic of Hell

Last updated on: January 18, 2010 at 6:16 pm By Fred Clark

Tribulation Force, pp. 133-139 As we turn our attention from Buck back to Rayford, I realize I will need to amend one point from what I said last week. Discussing the abstract love of LaHaye & Jenkins' brand of evangelical Christianity, I noted that such love expresses itself apart from "any consideration of deeds, actions and choices." But watching poor Rayford squirm in the pages we're looking at this week reminds us that there is one — and apparently only... Read more

Dear Pat Robertson, STFU

Last updated on: January 15, 2010 at 4:24 pm By Fred Clark

Several elegant responses to Pat Robertson's latest obscenities have already been posted. See, for example: 1. Adam Serwer at Tapped (via), who cites a pertinent passage from Frederick Douglass. 2. Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph on Rachel Maddow. Shorter Raymond Joseph: Haiti to America — You're welcome. Glad to see you're enjoying Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. Don't mention it, really. (Bonus quip: "Behold Pat Robertson: The unintended... Read more

H – A – Hallelujah

Last updated on: January 15, 2010 at 1:48 pm By Fred Clark

We haven't a clue to it all "H-A-T-R-E-D," Tonio K"Half Acre," Hem"Half Asleep," Hem"Half Asleep," School of Seven Bells"Half Light, Epoch and Phase," Daniel Amos"Half the Perfect World," Madeleine Peyroux"Hallelujah," David Bazan"Hallelujah," Jeff Buckley"Hallelujah," Leonard Cohen "Hallelujah," Allison Crowe"Hallelujah," Willie Nelson"Hallelujah," Paramore"Hallelujah," Rufus Wainwright"Hallelujah, I Love Her So" The Beatles I am, as you can probably guess, always looking for even more versions of Leonard Cohen's great song. But if you know of any other versions of Daniel Amos' "Half... Read more

Haiti

Last updated on: January 14, 2010 at 3:20 pm By Fred Clark

Credit Ivanoh Demers of the AP for more than 1,000 words above. International Committee of the Red Cross Read more

TF: Do I love you, do I?

Last updated on: January 11, 2010 at 5:35 pm By Fred Clark

Tribulation Force, pp. 128-133 The annoying thing — well, OK, one of many annoying things — about what Jerry Jenkins is about to put us through is that none of this has anything to do with biblical prophecies or seal judgments or horsemen or Gog and Magog or any of that. This is just extra, bonus material. His gift to us. This gift being, for the next dozen or so pages, the romantic awakening of 30-year-old virgin Buck Williams and... Read more

TF: LaHaye World

Last updated on: January 8, 2010 at 3:53 pm By Fred Clark

Tribulation Force, pp. 126-128 Nicolae Carpathia is explaining to Buck how he plans to purchase every major newspaper, newsmagazine, radio and TV station in the world. He can do this, he explains, because he is the sole heir of Jonathan Stonagal's fortune. And he is motivated to do this, he says, because of peace on earth and wanting to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. And none of this makes sense. The sort of sappy, vapid idealist that... Read more

Galaxy-Gardening

Last updated on: January 8, 2010 at 4:08 am By Fred Clark

As he walked by Billy stuck his knife into his pocketTook a breath and let him pass "Galaxy Song," Eric Idle"Gallop," Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks"Galveston Bay," Bruce Springsteen"The Game," Echo and the Bunnymen"Gangsters Paradise," Off the Beat"Gangster's Paradise," Coolio"Garageland," The Clash"Garden of Serenity," The Ramones"Gardening at Night," R.E.M. The video linked above for Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" is the live performance from the 1995 Billboard Awards. LV and Stevie show up to take that song to church. (And I'd be... Read more

Family Feud

Last updated on: January 7, 2010 at 4:54 am By Fred Clark

So imagine a survey asking respondents to name their No. 1 favorite baseball team. Now imagine this survey is sent out to every member of the Yankees Fan Club. And that the bylaws of the Yankees Fan Club explicitly state that any member not naming the Yankees as their No. 1 favorite baseball team will have their membership revoked and will be shunned as illegitimate enemies of baseball should they ever respond to such a question with any answer other... Read more