The Best Super Bowl Commercial

There is no cultural event in contemporary life that draws as much cross-demographic interest as the Super Bowl. In a world where the monoculture has largely gone extinct, the Super Bowl remains that one thing where men and women, young and old, rich and poor, black and white, conservative and liberal, the football passionate and...

there are no coincidences, only algorithms

One of the things that I'm fascinated by is how technology is changing the way that we think and the way that we process the circumstances of our lives. Even using a word like "process" - a term tied to computers - instead of a word like "interpret" demonstrates just how much we have come...

dear children, keep yourselves from idols

John ends his first letter abruptly. Almost as an afterthought, he adds a post script warning his readers about idols. The NIV encourages us to read this verse out of place by strangely choosing to isolate the last verse of the letter in its own very short paragraph. It gives the verse the appearance of...

your heart sucks

I'm taking a break from Twitter for Lent which means that during the week I have to find something else to do while standing in lines or to distract me while I'm supposed to be grading papers. So for me, Twitter during Lent is limited to Sundays, feast days. One of the first Tweets I...

a brick and mortar christmas

Pardon the "get off my lawn" post, but I'm 40 now. There comes a point in every man's life where he embraces his inner curmudgeon. There comes a point in every man's life where he finds himself less identifying with Ralphie than with his cranky dad. I'm choosing 40 as that point. (Although, those who...

chapter 4: hermes reports

Chapter 1: Eros Chapter 2: Ares Chapter 3: Aphrodite If Ares and Aphrodite were just a little reserved in their enthusiasm for the new CEO's agenda (setting aside their parental pride), the same could not be said for Hermes who would be the next to report. There was not a single department head seated at...