Kevin wrote:

I am wondering what the author of said site would think about putting up a similar link to a site belittling black people, or gays, or atheists?

Why not poke fun at Christians? Lord knows there's plenty of material. Maybe this is "insider humor", but as a pastor, I found the site hilarious.

I'd like to think that adherents of a religion have a right to lampoon it from time to time.

From observing my own pet rabbits, I'd say that this is not a rubdown, but a display of submission. Rabbits will often mount each other -- even in reverse, as in this case -- and hump to display dominance. In this case, the live rabbit is adopting the posture of submission (head on the floor) to the toy rabbit.

Fixed now, thanks.

ted, cindy: you're right. I didn't think about the NIU shootings when I posted this, but I should have. I'm sorry.

According to Run Wrake's website, the film is called "Rabbit".

The use of children, I think, presented an Augustinian view of Original Sin -- that even children are born not innocent, but totally depraved.

If I had a projector at my church, I'd use it as a sermon illustration.

Congratulations!

A few years ago I decided to limit myself to three cups of coffee a day. But that didn't seem enough. So I found a solution: I bought a much larger mug.

Arguably, Judges 6:36-39 features an earlier experiment.

It's like waterboarding in reverse.

Alex wrote:

If private firefighters are okay, how about private police (and not just security guard)?

There is a critical difference between police and firefighters. Police are tasked with enforcing law, which cannot be privatized in any society with even a nominal government. Firefighters do not enforce the law, but fight fires. They perform two very different tasks that cannot be conflated.

No one’s faulting homeowners for wanting to save their houses from fire, but is this a dangerous trend of preferential treatment of people based on wealth in cases of emergencies?

It would be only if these were publicly-supported firefighters, instead of privately-supported firefighters. This "preferential treatment" is going to people who specifically paid for it.

Looks like the set to the Teletubbies. I'd have nightmares every night if I had to live there.