Bootstraps?
Another strange thing happened the other day.
In Littleton, NH (pop. 5, 928). Lisa Landon, 33, was one with well-known criminal tendencies. Stalking, possession of methamphetamine, etc., are the charges filed against her.
Well, she decided to take matters into her own hands for these pending cases.
Ms. Landon used the New Hampshire court system’s electronic system to file bogus documents, pretending to be a county prosecutor herself. And those documents declared that the
Junk!
Have you ever snuck into your kitchen for a late night snack attack? In fact, you don’t even turn the lights on: you know exactly where all the tasty stuff is located. You could do it asleep (and some of us do). It is the hunt, the pursuit, the chase.
Well, now we know why. Researchers from the Division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University in the Netherlands discovered that this isn’t at all about your sharp memory. Rather, your brain is actually hardwired
Refuge!
This current COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t treated Mexico well (or most other countries, for that matter). The 85,000 deaths in that nation is the world’s fourth-highest coronavirus toll. Many have lost a relative, friend, loved one, or neighbor. And, in response, some of Mexico’s citizens have resorted to paying homage to a strange deity.
Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”)!. She, a female folk deity that personifies death, is paradoxically associated with healing and protection
Surrounded!
During these days of COVID-19, I’ve had to hold televisits with patients who did not want to come in to the office. And in those visits from afar, I’ve found my patients inside the house, outside it, in their cars (parked on the side of the road, thankfully), and so on. One couple even had a quarrel while I was online with them!
But it’s hard to beat the experience of Gregory A. Hood, MD, an internist in Lexington, Kentucky, as he reported in MedScape the other day:
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Big Idea Interview
The other day, Matt Woodley of Preaching Today (an arm of Christianity Today) interviewed me on their “Monday Morning Preacher” program about an article I had written last year in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. That article (“Time to Kill the Big Idea?”), a couple of responses from others, and my rejoinders to those responses, can all be found on this page.
Interview here. Enjoy!
Nap!
Yup, ye olde Beetle Bailey had it right all along!
Mort Walker’s creation (created in 1950), Private Carl James “Beetle” Bailey, was an indolent soldier who loved to nap most of the time, thus incurring the wrath of his superior officer Sergeant 1st Class Orville P. Snorkel. In fact, Bailey appeared to be perpetually in dreamland, even when awake, for he was always portrayed with his cap or helmet over his eyes! For the most part (in his seven decade existence, still
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.