This is a bad idea: Liberty University Selects Glenn Beck as Graduation Speaker And the reason this is a bad idea is the same reason I don’t like chocolate cheesecake. Huh? I like chocolate. Not like my wife likes chocolate, you understand; I often will get some cinnamon-y dessert or some fruit-flavored one, whereas there…
Several weeks ago, I posted about a discussion I’d had with a friend—whom I’m going to call “Bob”, though that’s not his real name (to protect the innocent—or guilty, as the case may be!)—on the subject of how my blogging appeared on Facebook, how little eyes might be reading, and how I’d possibly been offensive…
Franklin Graham was going to speak at a Pentagon function on May 6, but now has been disinvited to the event: Pentagon Disinvites Franklin Graham The egregious thing that Graham said was that Islam is evil. Islam is evil. Doggone it; there goes my chance to pray at the Pentagon.
As a communicator, there’s sometimes a fine line between using strong language to make a point, on the one hand, and throwing words around carelessly and irresponsibly. I’d like to report that I’ve never crossed that line…but while I might like to report that, it wouldn’t be true. As I wrote a couple weeks back,…