It’s in the Details

The writer of this Associated Press piece is a genius. An excerpt:

The store was filled with shoppers at about 2 p.m. Sunday when the Subaru station wagon plowed backward through picture windows in a reading area in the store’s northwest corner. The car took out the travel section and barreled about 40 feet through the bookstore before coming to rest in nonfiction. … People screamed and shrieked and dodged the car as it headed toward the fireplace, jerked right, and smashed into shelves of travel and history books.

Notice how the writer gets all the details.

I Am Surely Going to Hell

A little late on this, but Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of The Christian Broadcasting Channel, issued this warning on “The 700 Club” last Thursday: “I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God. You just rejected him from your city.”

Later the same day, he issued this statement clarifying what he’d said:

God is tolerant and loving, but we can’t keep sticking our finger in his eye forever. … If they have future problems in Dover, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them.”

I appreciate it when people take it upon themselves to inform others the punishments God has in store for them. It proves that they have a true and direct connection to God.

On a completely unrelated note, I flipped the TV on Sunday evening and “Charmed” was on the air. It was an old episode because Shannen Doherty was still on the show. Following “Charmed” was “What I Like About You” (which I’ve never watched, I swear!), co-starring Jennie Garth. Who would have thought that a decade after “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the two actresses would appear back-to-back on The WB?