If you search my blog you’ll find that one of my most favorite places on earth is Williamsburg, VA. I could easily spend a month in the Historic Area and never become bored. It’s my happy place 1. I’ve seen the place change over the years, which has been fun, and one of the most…
Tag: News
Cashing In – The Economic Bias of News Media
Yesterday some despicable person 1 decided it would be a wonderful idea to blow up the NAACP chapter office in Colorado Spring, Colorado. Thankfully, their homemade explosive didn’t work as it was intended. The building suffered only minor damage, and no one was hurt or killed in the incident. The story was slow to reach…
Welcome to my domain
Over the last few months I’ve been contemplating acquiring a domain name for Painfully Hopeful. This morning I finally pulled the trigger and purchased a domain which, I feel, captures the ethos of what I post here. So, welcome to painfullyhopeful.me! Come, gaze at the irony.
Hard Times
We’re in a bad economy, this is not news. What is news is when the company that publishes the two major papers in your city files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The good news that that these papers look like they’ll be able to move through bankruptcy sucessfully. The bad news is that this is a…
Oh the Metaphor Stretching…
I often will catch Christian preaching insane stretches with their metaphors and they cause me to cringe because I am a fellow preacher and seeing one of us crash and burn is painful. I was just reading an article over at CNN today, however, and I have now seen the crowning jewel of non-sensical metaphors:…
