Free Press writer Julie Hinds coined a phrase in trying to answer the question: "Why is reality TV so popular?" Why do civilized human beings enjoy watching other supposedly-civilized human beings:
eat worms
writhe in a bed of dead fish
swap moms
throw themselves at a self-centered bachelor or bachelorette
and in a hundred and one ways, make fools of themselves?
Hinds says the answer lies in wha...
The author of the One hundred and thirty-eighth Psalm is one of Israel’s common people. Poets come from all walks of life, and this poet refuses to permit his humble place to silence him before the mighty. A "simple, private individual in the congregation," as one scholar describes him, not even the gods whom the pagans vaunt can induce him to hold his tongue. After all, who are they when they obv...
Garfield gets up one morning and still half asleep, looks in the mirror. Seeing his face he says, "Boy, do I need a shave." Then you hear the electric razor buzzing and Garfield's frantic thought, "Wait a minute!"
In the final scene, John has this startled look on his face as he sees Garfield with the fur shaved off the bottom half of his face. And with a very perturbed look on HIS face, Garfie...
