Kevin Haas reaches into the grab bag every so often when we’d rather just repeat news, instead of research it ourselves.
Here’s what we’ve been following this week.
Fists, faith collide
We’ll start with alpha-paper The New York Times, which this week reported about evangelical churches that have embraced mixed martial arts.
The motto of one Nashville church, the Times reported, is “Where Feet, Fist and Faith Collide ... Usually Giving Faith a Broken Nose or Some Sort of Internal Hemorrhaging.”
It’s nice to see that churches have found new ways to draw people closer to that bearded spiritual role model. I’m talking here, of course, about Chuck Norris.
Trees have motive to cause global warming
LiveScience.com reported a new study that found trees in the eastern portions of the U.S. have grown faster because of the Earth’s warming climate.
So apparently you don’t have to worry about global warming, because we’ll always have global shade.
Political pandering: It’s what’s for dinner
A nice piece of political pandering popped up this weekend in the southern hemisphere. Argentina’s president told pig farmers that pork is better than Viagra.
“I’ve just been told something I didn’t know; that eating pork improves your sex life ... I’d say it’s a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra,” President Cristina Fernandez said, as reported by Reuters.
I hope the pork industry runs with this concept. I can’t wait for the new slogan, “Pork: You’ll be doing just that.”
Rockford Register Star columnist Kevin Haas can be reached at (815) 987-1354 or khaas@rrstar.com. This column is the opinion of the writer and not of the newspaper.
