Monday Haiku

6 Inches
It’s snowing outside
Minnesota depression
Winter never ends
Misery Beyond Misery
Twins home-opener
on the day of a blizzard
Should be a Cubs fan

Links of Note

Check out some good stuff on the web.
On the Obama-Wright issue, make sure to read this interview of Thabiti Anyabwile (A guy I argued with in my comments on my old blog about not tipping!) about black liberation theology. Apparently he is the author of a new book called The Decline of African American [...]

New Roommate Story

Along with my new place along comes new roommates, and that means new subject matter to blog about. My roommate Nathan had a good story worth telling which I hope somehow will add to the absurdity.
SCENE 1
Nathan sees attractive woman in coffee shop. He approaches her and starts a conversation. Unbeknownst to him, a [...]

Garfield minus Garfield

Kevin passed me along this gem of a site called Garfield Minus Garfield that is so wonderfully detached and despairingly hilarious. Here are some samples:

Gorbachev confesses his faith

UPDATE: It’s all a rumor.
Gorbachev confesses his faith:
MIKHAIL Gorbachev, the last Soviet Communist leader, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time in a surprise visit to the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.
Accompanied by his daughter Irina, he spent half an hour on his knees in silent prayer at the tomb. “St [...]

Obama: A More Perfect Union

Obama gave a speech today about race in America. Below is the full text of the speech from Drudge.
OBAMA SPEECH IN FULL: A MORE PERFECT UNION
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008/ 10:17:53 ET
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands [...]

On Obama’s Pastor

If you haven’t seen the clip of Obama’s pastor ranting and raving about how racist America is, it’s worth taking a look at just for the sheer shock value:

Frank Schaeffer tries to pull out the “the-Right-is-just-as-hypocritical-like-me-and-my-dad-were” card but doesn’t get it. The problem Obama faces is that his “spiritual advisor” [...]

Did you know…

..that today is Pi Day?

Art?

I went to the Walker Art Center for the first time ever last night. Rebecca saw it due to culture me in some way or another, and so we found ourselves meandering through the labyrinth of exhibits pondering the mysteries of life. Needless to say I didn’t understand half of the exhibits.
My favorite was [...]

Atlanta Musings

I’m back from my trip to Atlanta and that in itself deserves a post somehow (down there for my grandpa’s funeral)
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Evidently Atlanta has the second worse traffic in the nation right behind good old LA. It’s true that Minneapolis has a piece of its most important roadway at the bottom of the Mississippi River [...]