Alert! Alert! It will be safe to open your front door for a few days:
The Evansville Convention & Visitors Bureau is spreading the word to local restaurants, businesses and residents that attendees for the first of two consecutive weekends of the Jehovah's Witness Annual Convention will begin arriving today. Organizers expect 5,000 to 6,000 attendees here each of the two weekends. They travel from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee.
The great star-spangled experiment is over at Goshen College. The college has decided to stop playing an instrumental version of the national anthem at sporting events, followed by a peace prayer:
Some were upset with the school's decision last year because the song's lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.
Has the global warming climate change hysteria peaked?
The earth's climate is always changing, sometimes dramatically. During the medieval warming of a thousand years ago, temperatures were much higher than they are now; during the Little Ice Age six centuries later they were much lower.
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Only the federal government would spend millions to save thousands. A pilot program in five Americann cities will provide some federal government workers with plug-in cars. In San Diego, there will be 116 of the electric vehicles:
The purchases announced Tuesday are expected to cut gas usage by almost 29,000 gallons a year, saving taxpayer an estimated $116,000 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 257 metric tons, said GSA administrator Martha Johnson.
Omigod, has anyone told Harold Camping yet? We could certainly use his guidance and spiritual counseling:
A pair of astronomers say inabout 1 billion years the output of our Sun will go up enough to evaporate the oceans and rivers into water vapor.
Oh, wait, that's "billion," not "million." I shouldn't have been so quick to become flabbergasted. Never mind.
Omigod, has anyone told Harold Camping yet? We could certainly use his guidance and spiritual counseling:
A pair of astronomers say inabout 1 billion years the output of our Sun will go up enough to evaporate the oceans and rivers into water vapor.
Oh, wait, that's "billion," not "million." I shouldn't have been so quick to become flabbergasted. Never mind.
Haven't made any big plans for Saturday, have you?
A New York man spent his entire $140,000 life savings advertising his prediction that the world will end May 21, the New York Post reported Friday.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a 60-year-old Staten Island resident, said he spent at least that sum on 1,000 subway-car placards and ads on bus kiosks and subway cars.
A little "praise Buddha and pass the ammunition" from the Dalai Lama:
Speaking Tuesday night at the University of Southern California, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said the al Qaeda chief, responsible for the deaths of thousands, likely deserved his fate.
We believe in heaven, but are increasingly uninterested in hell, in part because of attempts by some pastors and theologians to make God seem more human. But "scoffing at eternal damnation" also makes human life less fully human:
