So on Thursday President Trump signed an Executive Order effectively dismantling the “Johnson Amendment.” Below are my thoughts on this act of toothless political theatre 1. First, if this means I’m going to get another mildly-threatening warning letter from a local atheist group I’ll be mildly annoyed. I don’t violate the Johnson Amendment every Sunday,…
Category: Thoughts
Congregation of the Absurd
I’m working on a brochure to hand out during Palmyra Day 1 and the template I’m using has spaces for quotes near the bottom. I thought this would be a great place for testimonials about Central so I headed over to Facebook and asked the family, “If you could describe Central in one sentence, what…
MST3K Returns
Crow: “Jonah, what’s a radio?” Jonah: “It’s like a podcast you can’t control.” With that, I knew Mystery Science Theater 3000 1 had returned. I first encountered MST3K in high school when some of my co-workers introduced me to the episode, “The Creeping Hand 2” The mix of a terrible movie, with the silhouettes of…
Drafted
The NFL Draft was held in Philly this week. The region has been buzzing with excitement, and the “powers that be” in sports 1 have been effusive in their praise for the event. As a native Philadelphian I am often annoyed by the way our city is portrayed in the common narratives of much national…
Nonsense Response, “What the Q?”
Last week I invited my readers to submit nonsense questions, with the promise I’d give equally nonsensical answers in the coming weeks. Today is the first installment of “Nonsense Response 1.” A nefarious organization, known only as “The Scrabble Tribunal” asks, Where did the Q go? An excellent question! The short answer is, as anyone…
Tribute
Today my son and I traveled to Morris Arboretum to take some pictures. Despite having grown up near the site, this marked my first visit. I’ve no idea why I waited so long. The image below is from a tribute etched into a chair set out on the property. It struck me as interesting for…
