A Month in the Life

Ok, ok; it's a bad joke. It is said, "A picture is worth a thousand words," but this picture actually begs for explanation! I think he called this "urban Amish" (isn't that a contradiction of terms?); I think his mama called it something else. No, I'm not hatin' on the Amish. I think it's the hat. Gives it a "Matisyahu-meets-Weird-Al" vibe, or something.

New Blog Feature: Something Late Last Year in the News I Just Remembered
I was just browsing my Internet favorites and came across this article from the November, 7, 2006 NYTimes someone sent me months ago. I'm not what you could call an "Internet junkie", by a long shot. It's a report of a neuroscientific study of the phenomenon of speaking in tongues. The coolest discovery is that a person who is speaking in tongues is not in a trance-like state; in fact, the centers of consciousness remain active during the whole experience! So, no, we're not "crazy"; in fact, tongues-speakers are perfectly in control of themselves and aware of their surroundings!

It's pretty cool that the NYTimes is defending Pentecostal sanity, but catch this hilarious correction four days later: "An article in Science Times on Tuesday about brain images of people speaking in tongues misstated the origins of the practice in America. It is thought to have begun in Pentecostal churches established in the early 1900s, not in charismatic churches. The charismatic movement began decades later." What kind of retraction is that?! "Sorry, readers, but we got the date wrong by DECADES"?! Oh, come on!

Anyway, nothing serious today; I hope I cheered you up. Tonight, thank God you're not "metropolitan Mennonite" or "disco Disciple", and you're not "crazy" when you speak in tongues, and you actually have a better sense of history and timeframe than the snobby, truly narrow-minded liberal hacks who work at the Times! You can assuredly rest with a smile on your lips tonight!



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