A reader accused me of excess political correctness for saying that I adored Burger King’s Whopper Virgins campaign for its ingenuity, but abhorred it for its nutritional irresponsibility. Well, it seems that I’m no longer in the politically correct camp as I am absolutely loving BK’s Whopper Sacrifice Facebook application, a widget that rewards users…

Sure, you’ve heard of Anne Frank. But what about Hannah Senesh? In 1944, Hungarian-born poet Hannah Senesh was safe in Palestine, working the land with a group of young Zionist immigrants, most of whom had fled European persecution. But when word of Hitler’s Final Solution reached Senesh and her friends, a small group of them…

If the Bible were being made into a movie, who would play the characters? Paul Asay has a piece on Beliefnet’s current homepage which poses some possibilities. Who would De Niro play? How ’bout Denzel? Adam Sandler? Glenn Close? How ’bout Keisha Castle-Hughes, Richard Dreyfuss, Shia LaBeouf, and Jeremy Irons? Who would play Joseph? Or…

Lately, I’ve become addicted to the kind of television subgenre known as the “procedural”–which is basically a show like “NCIS,” “Criminal Minds,” and “Fringe,” that yes, has ongoing story arcs, but mainly turn on an episode by episode, crime-solving scenario. One of those shows is CBS’s “Numb3rs,” which stars the wonderful Rob Morrow as Don…

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