Category: Culture
This week on the Daily Show & Colbert Report
I grew up in the central time zone (God’s time as I like to call it). Why God’s time? I could watch all of David Letterman and still get seven hours of sleep. For the past fourteen years I’ve lived in the eastern time zone which makes watching The Daily Show, some of Colbert, and Letterman a bit much with the alarm going off at 6 a.m. The internet to the rescue! On Friday mornings I like to catch up on the bits I missed from Colbert and the Daily Show. Here are my favorite two from this week.
A bit called, Playing the Race Card, from the Daily Show. Colbert does a bit called, Tip of the Hat / Wag of the Finger and the current installment had me laughing as Colbert talks about the Conservapedia. Discipledom needs this kind of cleverness.
Love Your Neighbor As Yourself
I saw this news story on Disciplesworld. It is an example of what it will take or at least how peace in the near East could happen during my lifetime.
Virginia synagogue serves as mosque during Ramadan
By Jessica Gresko, AP writer
RESTON, Virginia (AP, 9/18/09) — On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on, and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles, and pray in Hebrew.
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