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Rabbit Ears? Um, Yeah, Sorta

By Dennis E. Powell | May 10, 2023 at 11:44 PM
The websites told me to forget it: there is no way in the world I can get over-the-air broadcast television where I live. I was inclined to believe them. I’m glad I didn’t.

Tucker Carlson's Ironic Return

By Timothy R. Butler | May 10, 2023 at 11:37 PM

Tucker Carlson says he’s “back.” His three minute long Twitter video return is a tour de force argument on what’s terribly wrong in the media and the need for free speech. How desperately we need the whole truth and not just controlled bits of it. He’s right, but I’m hardly celebrating, because the setting is so ironic.

Re-finding Newfoundland

By Dennis E. Powell | May 03, 2023 at 10:45 PM

Coincidence, surely, is the reason that the two places on earth I’d most like to visit (but probably never will) are islands.

Episode 36: We Made It Two Years and We Ain't Stoppin'

By Zippy the Wonder Snail | May 03, 2023 at 9:45 PM

The Zippy Crew returns to celebrate our second anniversary of our podcast! This episode, we look at several political controversy, the subject of addiction and the hope we find in the knowledge that Jesus is alive.

The Best We Can Do?

By Dennis E. Powell | Apr 26, 2023 at 11:18 PM

Never the sharpest brick in the pile, and never having been accused of honesty, Joe “Bugout” Biden has not aged well.

All really that can be said of him now is that the ravages of time have cast doubt whether his latest falsehood is deliberate or an artifact of senile dementia. The effect is the same: his one hard and fast rule is never, ever to tell the truth. Dishonesty is the one area where he and Donald Trump are real competitors and both deserve to win.

Living on the Subscription Clock

By Timothy R. Butler | Apr 26, 2023 at 10:58 PM

Just writing this column is going to make me uncomfortable, because I certainly don’t like thinking about how many subscriptions I’ve gotten roped into. Not that long ago if you’d said “subscription,” I’d have thought “magazine.” Now, I think “everything.” Precisely how many subscriptions can we stomach?

Hi-Fi in the Modern Age

By Dennis E. Powell | Apr 19, 2023 at 9:57 PM

Time was, and it’s well within living memory, that the nicest thing you could say about an audio amplifier as found in a high-fidelity system or “stereo,” was that it was “a piece of wire.”

How to (Not) Save 24 Hours with Cell Phone Customer Service

By Timothy R. Butler | Apr 19, 2023 at 8:12 PM

I sometimes wonder how we get anything done at all. Usually, I wonder that while sitting on hold with customer service. I especially find myself wondering that when said customer service has to do with cellular service. I was wondering that today.

Stark Thoughts on Vaccines and Treatments

By Dennis E. Powell | Apr 12, 2023 at 10:40 PM

The headline last week would have been hopeful news indeed, if we hadn’t been here so many times before. “Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’” was the story in The Guardian.

Has "Big Worship" Ruined Church Music?

By Timothy R. Butler | Apr 12, 2023 at 10:33 PM

Ah, the week after Easter, that season when we critique the music we’ve just been singing. My attention was caught when the New York Times religion reporter tweeted out a link to Bob Smietana’s piece published this week bemoaning the homogenous nature of the present worship experience and how many churches did the same music over Easter weekend (and, by extension, every weekend).

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