Just in case you’re wondering where to get your Bible-quoting Jesus doll this year, the Marine Reserves’ Toys for Tots program will be distributing the dolls to lucky kids near you. Toys for Tots apparently wavered a bit on whether or not to accept the dolls: Earlier this week, the program declined a suburban Los…Continue reading stocking stuffers
Category: Writing Exercises
big oops
Not sending in the absentee ballot might have saved this Florida voter three million dollars. The envelope was sent using extremely rare postage. Unfortunately, having failed to identify him/herself, the ballot was discounted. The exercise: Write about a costly mistake.
What’s creepier than Ted Haggard?
Narcissism reaches new heights with the My Twinn doll! You send in a photo, and in four weeks, voila, they send you a doll with your coloring, hairstyle, and lips. If you look closely at the My Twinn photo gallery, you’ll notice that all of the faces are almost identical, save for the shading and…Continue reading What’s creepier than Ted Haggard?
Emily Dickens tombstone mystery/NaNoMo
The headstone of General Thomas Gilbert, a widowed father of 7 who had familial ties to Emily Dickinson, was found under 18 inches of dirt in Emily Dickinson’s front yard during renovations on Monday (yep, that was Halloween). No one can figure out what it was doing there. The Exercise: Write about an inexplicable find.…Continue reading Emily Dickens tombstone mystery/NaNoMo
another bad day for the radical right
Ted Haggard, one of the frontline faces of American evangelism and the president of the 30-million memberNational Association of Evangelicals, who also happens to have tiesto the White House, has stepped down from his position as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs after a male prostitute alleged that Haggard’s been paying him for…Continue reading another bad day for the radical right