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The Jensen Project (view trailer), airing tomorrow night (Friday) at 8:00 PM (ET) on NBC plays out like a live-action version of the classic action-adventure cartoon series Jonny Quest and should please both parents and kids looking for something to watch together in an air-conditioned room on a quiet summer night. The plot (which seems…

My sister often says that if you want to look at an issue fairly change the parties involved from people you like to people you don’t and vice versa.  Then see how your perspective on the same issue changes. I think the media, if it really is interested in being fair, could learn from that…

It’s hard not to look at recent headlines and not be struck by how similar stories can garner such dissimilar reactions from the media. Radar Online has posted audio purported to be of Mel Gibson in a horrifyingly threatening tirade against Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his eight-month-old daughter. Assuming the tape is authentic (which…

You’ve probably never heard of John H. Brady.  All that was known of him (including by some of his own descendants) was that he worked as a New York cab driver during the early years of the last century, had a family and died sometime in the 1930’s of a heart attack. He was also…

That great American think tank known as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is out with its much-anticipated Emmy Award nominations for supposed excellence in television. I use the word “supposed” because excellence when it comes to art (if that’s what television is) is, of course, a subjective concept.  I’m made more aware…

If you’re looking for a good book to give your kid to read — or to read yourself — I recommend Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Published by Walden Pond Press, the 311-page novel tells the fantastic story of Liam, a 12-year-old British boy whose height and premature facial hair cause him to regularly be…

On Monday I wrote about the latest problems of Mel Gibson. The piece received a fair amount of response. Most, I think it’s fair to say, was positive as readers agreed with my basic contention that the controversial actor/director is in need of prayers and compassion and not condemnation (though his words and behavior have…

Gary Krupp, President of the Pave the Way Foundation, is a Jewish man who has been knighted by two popes (John Paul II and Benedict XVI) for his good works. Through their PTWF organization, he and his wife Meredith use the media to promote religious tolerance and understanding. According to them, one of the biggest areas of misunderstanding between Christians and…

It was at a holiday barbecue when the subject of Mel Gibson‘s latest alleged rant came up. This time, as you probably know by now, the movie star/director is said to have been caught on tape delivering a vile sexist and racist tirade threatening violence against Oksana Grigorieva, the former girlfriend with whom he has…

Christopher Hitchens, the well-known author, journalist and opponent of religion (particularly the Catholic Church) sadly has put out a statement that he has cancer of the esophagus. Writing respectively for the National Catholic Register and Beliefnet, bloggers Pat Archbold and Rod Dreher are among those calling on people of goodwill everywhere to pray for the…
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