1001

This is my 1001st post. Might as well use it for good.

Quotes of the Day

"A lot of Christians, especially people who have had dramatic conversion experiences, go sailing out of the harbor with wind in their sails. They are so confident in Christ and what he has done for their salvation, and that gospel wind is in their sails. Yet after two years, they have heard just one imperative after another. They have lots of course plotting, lots of books on how to do this and that. They've read every manual on spiritual disciplines. They have heard their pastor tell them they need to pray more, to read the Bible more, to evangelize more. Now they are dead in the water. There's no wind in the sails."

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"Not only will we be right back where we started, it will expose the federal trial as nothing more than a show trial. Show trials are conducted by despots and dictators to give only a thin veneer of legality to political detentions and executions. If the state isn’t prepared to abide by the decision of the court, including dismissals and acquittals, then the use of the trial system is worse than useless. It demeans the federal system needed for Americans to seek unbiased justice."

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"He’s a little on the short side, neither fat nor thin, and he wears jeans and a sports jacket, not a shiny suit and an oily smile. With his goatee and what’s left of his graying hair trimmed close to his head, he looks mostly like what he is—a well-groomed, middle- to upper-middle-class American professional. But when he runs out onstage and starts dispensing financial advice, you realize that he could have been a great preacher."

Dude.

Seattle Mariner Prophecy!

Trunk Monkey

Only because I can, the best commercials ever:

Black Magic Video

"There's a Little Holy Spirit in Here"

I'll say.

A comment from the blog where I found this gem:

What are the odds, my friends, that the bottom of a stiff-bristled broom would be so uniformly flat as to let it stand on its own? One in, er, 100, maybe? Or is it silly to ask about probability where the hand of the Holy Spirit is so clearly at work?

I personally think it's adorable that she thinks the Holy Spirit is in the business of making brooms stand on their own. He's not now, but maybe in heaven, if we're lucky.

Uh, Best Dog Costume Ever

Best Find of the Year Post: 100 Bacon Recipes

Here (and a bonus, video).

Monkeys in the Swimming Pool

I challenge you to find a more hilarious and satisfying video this year.

Calories and Caffine

I'll Like Lance When He Can Do This

Dude

Daily Mail:

A premature baby declared dead by doctors was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake.

The baby's father, Jose Alvarenga, was told by doctors that his son had died shortly after birth.

Staff from the state-run hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, delivered the infant's body to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later.

Shortly afterwards, the grieving father opened the baby's coffin to bid an emotional farewell to his son.

"I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Mr Alvarenga said. "I began to cry."

He rushed back to the hospital with his unnamed baby in his arms and nurses placed the infant in an oxygen chamber.

He is now reported to be in a stable condition.

Awesome Surfer Speak

It seems like I have posted this before, but I couldn't find it on da blog. And, honestly, who cares. This video is awesome.

Ever Seen an Upside-Down Building?

Fastest

United Breaks Guitars

I usually hate the literalness of country music. But, as a guitar owner myself, I can't help but love this song.

Gunga Galunga

Fastest Road Cars, Head to Head

I Could Care Less

Or could you? From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards on its incorrect usage:

This is an easy mistake to make. The correct phrase, of course, is "couldn't care less" - as in, "I don't care at all, so it wouldn't be possible for me to care any less about this." But over the years, that's morphed into a new phrase (with the same meaning), and even though the Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage criticized the change in 1975, saying it was "an ignorant debasement of language," "could care less" seems to be around to stay.

Language historian say "couldn't care less" was originally a British phrase that became popular in the Untied States in the 1950s. "Could care less" appeared about a decade later. No one knows exactly why the incorrect form came into being, since it doesn't make sense. But the phrase has stuck, and a lot of grammarians care very much that it's not being used correctly. (Regular people, of course, couldn't care less.)

See other commonly misused words and phrases here.