If you give a man a fish, he eats today.
If you teach a man to fish, you lose a customer.

But he'll have mercury poisoning!

I see, on Youtube, that Billy Graham has promoted some video all day.

"Watch Billy Graham's much-anticipated new message: The Cross", and all that.
"My Hope, AMERICA" reads another part of the video advertising this thing.
It features Lacey Sturm and Lecrae, whoever they are. I don't really keep up with Christian television enough to know.

I'm unlikely to ever watch it, but I imagine it probably went something like this...

In a very large mega church, a church made out like a stadium with all the seating facing a single lone podium, Billy Graham approaches that podium with his tall, lanky form. Creaking over to the podium, he reaches out to the microphone with his frail arm, and pulls it to his mouth with a loud scrunching sound unique to those flexible metal mic holders.

Parting his dry lips, he speaks.

"I've been watching America for over 90 years now.
I've seen it grow, changing from the beacon of democracy and hope, to become a cesspool of greed and avarice. I've watched it change from a tower of decent morals to a place that condones homosexuals whle promoting and poliferating pornography."

He then leans conspiratorily into the podium, and with the softest voice, starts, "My hope for America..."

A country hangs on the dramatic pause. A child shifts in his seat. No cell phone rings.

"My hope for America... IS THAT YOU ALL DIE!"

Reaching inside the podium, the 90 year old Billy Graham pulls a fully automatic machine gun out and mows down all the parishoners he can in God's name, before God Himself reaches down and gives him a heart attack.

I could be wrong, though.

Yeah, they probably keep the children in a holding cell, strapped to their chairs with leather straps, broken toothpicks used to keep their eyes open while attendants ensure they don't dry out by squirting water into them occasionally, as a video feed of Billy Graham killing all the adults is fed into the room.

Nov 4 2013 1:47pm from vince-q
If you give a man a fish, he eats today.
If you teach a man to fish, you lose a customer.

In a similar vein:

Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night.
Light a man afire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

No. I *like* my anger issues.

Everybody happy happy happy.

And with this remote, I can control just how happy you are!

Talk about nostaliga

Nostaliga was the lesser known sibling of Caligula, known more for the things he would do with his nostrils than debauchery.

In my youth I used to be much more introspective than I am today. In face, I hardly think at all anymore, my whole life has been on auto pilot for years. So I''m wondering, is it a natural part of getting older, or is it just that there are so many things outside me that require my focus and attention and if I left my life for a 3 day vacation would I go back to being the old me? Or am I suffering some mental illness? Or have I just changed, regardless of aging, just as time passed, maybe my personality just changed over time? People change. So.
I just kind of wonder where I went, I liked me. I kind of miss me.