Top This: Bull 1, Man 0

Man runs from bull. Bull catches man. Ouch.
(Warning: not for the squeamish. On the other hand, my local paper printed the picture, so how bad can it be?)
Question 1: Why is it that men do this, while women generally watch from a safe distance?
Question 2: Since we’re on a “reader input” roll, [...]

Top This: Bogus Combinations

Ever notice how often people—politicians, reporters, bloggers, children, plumbers, whoever—exaggerate one supposed threat by lumping it with another genuinely serious threat? Well, here’s a whopper:
A Reader’s Digest article from way back in October 2006 made an observation which, though intended to frighten me, I presume, only left me shaking my head. After addressing [...]

Top This: Bad Sermon Titles

We’ve all done it. You finish a sermon, you give it one last read, and then it happens: you’re struck with *the* sermon title. It’s perfect. It’s clever. Cute, even. It might be a pun, a play off of a movie title, a line from a nursery rhyme, or just a [...]