The Apostle James Zebedee

Perhaps no other single family contributed more to the work of the mission of Jesus than that of Zebedee. The Zebedee brothers, James and John followed two other brothers, Andrew and Peter, into the apostolic core, and David Zebedee was indispensable as the organizer and manager of a messenger service for the Master’s work. Here then is The Urantia Book’s account of the apostle James Zebedee.

Elected Republicans Sorta Celebrate Zappadan

THE LOVE OF MUSIC can make for strange bedfellows now and then, and this Saturday afternoon saw more than a dozen congressional Republicans convened at the exclusive Beltway Courtyard Inn to celebrate “Zappadan ’09,” a little known annual musical holiday homage to the late Frank Zappa.

Afutilestan (VII): The Great Game Revisited

Geography is destiny, Napoleon is reported to have said. I began to appreciate that political truism early on, thanks to marathon games of  Risk I  played as a kid.  According to Wikipedia, Risk was originally released in France in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde—The Conquest of the World. It was likely modeled on the period of history that historians …

Anti-Rat Pants

. . .Are a necessity when you play like this. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAPVxHNPN6s&feature=related[/youtube] Do not adjust your toobs; there’s nothing wrong with this video.

ZAPPADAN ’09

We begin our celebration of ZAPADAN ’09 with a look back at ZAPPADAN ’08, our first foray into the dark underbelly of the emerging world-wide Zappanese culture.

GIVE US A SIGN

MANKIND HAS ALWAYS wished for a “sign” from the Gods, an augury of such indisputable, authoritative power as to sweep any and all doubts and misgivings aside. And man didn’t hesitate to ask when the opportunity arose to ask God straight out.

Kiss Your Middle Class Ass Goodbye

Tonight’s blood boiler, America Without a Middle Class, is brought to you by the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on banking bailouts, Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warrren. Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in …