So, Olsteen is really more of a Prosperity Doctrine guy and many Evangelicals give him and his followers the side-eye. Prosperity Doctrine basically says, if you are poor, that’s because your not right with God. But you can get right by sending in a ‘seed’ donation. Then God will bless you because he really wants…

Welcome to my childhood. Except we don’t have basements in Houston, were a secondary strike target for the USSR and our evacuation route was to go to College Station...which was tertiary strike target. By best calculations if you could make it out of Houston without any traffic, you should be arriving in College…

They wouldn’t. The streets around it haven’t had high water since Sunday morning. There’s a Costco right across the street, a Kroger’s across the freeway, and numerous restaurants have been driving food to shelters for a couple days. I have an acquaintance who runs Pi pizza (best place to go if you like pizza with…

That surprises me too, cause I’m pretty sure it has a Starbucks inside.

Its really amazing when you think about it. The church used to be a basketball arena/concert venue. This is where Metallica would play when they came to town. Its big. And every Sunday they have police directing traffic, full staff of security guards, janitors, gift shop employees. I’d bet it’s $100,000+ just to open…

As a Houstonian, I’m glad the President had a good turnout where he was...’cause we absolutely don’t need him around here.

I live close this this building. Streets around it for a large radius are not flooded. and haven’t been since Sunday afternoon. I could see the parking garage being flooded as it’s mostly underground, but there are other ways into the building. I think it really comes down to economics. It takes about of money, we’re…

I was attending a private Evangelical school at the time. These ‘satanic panic’ stories were weekly fodder in our weekly assemblies. The teachers and principals would tell us about stories like this and explain this is what the rest of the world was like, because they didn’t have Jesus. Looking back on it, it’s pretty…

“Kevin being a single father… [We] were really attracted” to watching Kevin “learn how to do all of the stuff” that comes with being a single parent to three kids — four if you count Kendra’s fiancé Chale.”

Well, I mean if you can get the horse to consent...

It’s worse. He’s also saying that we shouldn’t offer protections based on a person’s religion, either. I doubt he’s thought very hard about this.

“So we’re being asked to provide Constitutional protections for behavior, a choice in behavior as opposed to a primary characteristic.”

Not really related to the story, but I’m always surprised when I see a picture of Kal Penn. I don’t know why but for some reason I have this nagging feeling he dies several years ago and I’m not sure why.

Why is a ninja named Scheherazade? Is she an Arab Ninja? I’m so confused.

Really? I was hooked from the awesome credits and that opening monologue. 

“I have literally screamed at a cop and still didn’t get arrested”

But you should definitely go there for Suday brunch. http://babayega.com/sunday-brunch-houston/.

Only Metal acapella should be allowed to exist.

On a side note, I was just informed by a Canadian colleague that “King of Queens” was itself a remake/inspired-by a Canadian show named “King of Kensington”.

Thank you for this post.