I haven't watched ST:TNG in a while, but I mentioned this list to Paul at the Super Bowl party. I created this list in August 2007. There were 178 episodes over 7 seasons (26 per season, except 22 in season 2). It seems that I listed the top 25% (44 episodes), and then gave asterisks to the top 10% (18 episodes ( Read more... )

Ben Witherington has a post about "Why Arguments against Women in Ministry Aren't Biblical" on his blog: http://blog.beliefnet.com/bibleandculture/2009/10/why-arguments-against-women-in-ministry-arent-biblical. ( Read more... )

I had mentioned this article during poker night ( Read more... )

I contend that Albert Pujols is the greatest hitter since Ted Williams (retired in 1960). Here is the evidence:

All-time career SLG (.600+):
1. Babe Ruth .690
2. Ted Williams .634
3. Lou Gehrig .632
4. Albert Pujols .628
5. Jimmie Foxx .609
6. Barry Bonds .607
7. Hank Greenberg .605
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When Bart Ehrman previously appeared on The Colbert Report, it was to promote his book Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005). That time, he gave the impression that we can't trust the New Testament because we don't have the original manuscripts and the copies are not all exactly the same. What ( Read more... )

On Thursday's episode of The Colbert Report, Bart Ehrman gave the impression that the earliest Christians thought that Jesus was just a man and that only later Christians thought that he was God. But everyone who has studied the New Testament, including Ehrman, knows that Ehrman's claims are untrue ( Read more... )

Stephen Colbert's guest on Thursday, March 12, was Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University.

Singer recommends making fourth-trimester abortions legal ( Read more... )

Aired January 28, 2009 (an unplanned error ( Read more... )

Recently, Daniel asked: How did Rickey Henderson not get 100%? This led me to the question: How common is it for a player to receive 100%?

Well, it turns out that it has never happened. Rickey's 94.8% is the 13th highest of all-time. Here are the top 15 ( Read more... )

We're not actually considering any of these names, but the proliferation of spellings is fascinating ( Read more... )