Chris’ Blog

This weekend, the service at our church was about poverty. It was very powerful and got me to re-examine what I do and think about poverty. Christine and I expect to make some changes in the new year. I find it very easy to forget about the six billion or so people that have a lower quality of life than I do and to resist an attitude of entitlement that I believe is prevalent in our society.

Although I found none of the statistics presented surprising (I’m not sure what is worse: knowing the statistics and doing nothing or being ignorant of what is going on in our world) I did find out that there is an online petition at http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/ asking for the government to increase efforts to meet the United Nations Millennium Declaration to spare no effort to eliminate extreme poverty in the world. It’s somewhat more of a guest book than a formal petition, but I signed it anyway.

“The Shawshank Redemption” has been voted the #1 feel-good movie to help cure the winter blues according to Ananova. I’ve seen “The Shawshank Redemption” and I’m not sure those people know what feel-good means.

I saw this advertisement at dictionary.com…

I have to tell you, if I saw Pig Man in my shower I wouldn’t be wondering about how to save money and energy; I’d be wondering where my baseball bat is.

Have you ever noticed how the intro of “Rudolph the Red-nosed-reindeer” goes:

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixon,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzon.
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?

That’s kind of a stupid question isn’t it?
Think about it.