Periodic Table of the Bible – This chart divides books of the Bible into groups such as Pentateuch and Gospels. Click on the image to view full size. The year the book was written appears above the abbreviation while the title and writer is listed below. At the time of publication they were giving away self-adhesive cards that will stick to pretty much anything and are weatherproof/dishwasher safe. Click to here to find out more.

There are many things I could do for the price of my morning coffee. That may be true but that money is earmarked for coffee.

-Clark Bunch

Is it though? Everyone used to go to the park and feed the duck/pigeons/geese. It was a well established fact that birds live on bread crumbs and nothing else. Then came the duck duck goose advocates that warned us that ducks, like people, should not eat bread. It does not provide the nutrients they need and contains a lot of calories. Then 2020 came along and did what 2020 did, and now apparently ducks are starving to death from lack of bread! I’m sure it won’t be long before they ask us to serve certified organic gluten free non-GMO bread. Now that is for the birds.

Popular Mechanics, 1954 – Someone shared this picture on Facebook this week and after a little bit of sleuthing I tracked down this article from a 1954 Popular Mechanics magazine. I’d like to make some clever comment but it’s tired and I’m late. Maybe the long arm of the law will keep you on the straight and narrow? Or at least “the narrow.” Notice that this pic was taken in the Holland Tunnel.

The Lincoln Tunnel featured a different design with the patrol car running on a low wall-mounted rail instead of the miniature railroad used in the Holland Tunnel. The car design differs as well, missing the canopy top altogether but look at those snazzy headlamps. Believe it or not these tunnel rail cars were used until 2011, mostly for maintenance purposes once the health impacts of breathing carbon monoxide fumes all day were better understood. The same job is done today with cameras, electronic signs and dedicated bus lanes. You can see a Lincoln catwalk tunnel car at the Hoboken Historical Museum in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Did anybody else read The Hoboken Chicken Emergency in the 4th grade?)

Carnivore Pizza Challenge – I tried to include some silverware and plastic drink cups to give perspective to the size and scope of this thing. Big Pie in the Sky makes large 30″ pizzas. One slice and a drink are enough for most people on a quick lunch break. This 30″ pizza with it’s four different meats is meant to feed 8 to 10 people. I think that estimation is a bit generous. If a team of two people can eat the entire thing in one hour, not only is the pizza on the house but you can win a $150 cash prize. This is New York thin style crust but the whole pie weighs in at 11 pounds coming out of the oven. So that means you are your partner are each on the hook for 5 1/2 pounds of meaty pizza in under 60 minutes. This is what my friend Dudley wanted for his birthday. I was willing to do my part. What are friends for?

It took about 20 minutes for both of us to realize it wasn’t going to happen. Here’s how things looked when we officially tapped out after just half an hour. It wasn’t just the quantity of food. For me it was the grease. My stomach was swimming in it. I could have eaten more food, perhaps a lot more… but I could not eat any more of that. Dudley sent me a text the next day to tell me that had still not eaten anything. I told him I had two pieces of leftover pizza for breakfast and was about to have another for lunch. Happy Birthday Dudley; maybe next year just order a cookie cake or something.

From Daily Mail: “Harvard University has chosen a devout atheist and ‘humanist chaplain’ to lead the Ivy League school founded by Puritans to educate their clergy with the motto ‘Truth for Christ and the Church.’ Greg Epstein, 44, who was raised in a Reform Jewish household in Queens, New York, was named president of the chaplains for the religious community at the school after serving as Harvard’s ‘humanist chaplain’ since 2005.”

That’s quite a departure for a school founded by Puritans in 1636 and named for pastor John Harvard. The university did not even have a president who wasn’t a clergyman for its first 70 years.

The State of Texas recently introduced the most restrictive abortion legislation in the United States. You probably knew that, and that the United States Supreme Court decided not to prevent the law from taking effect. What’s weird about this particular legislation is that the state cannot enforce it. The law gives private citizens the right to sue abortion providers and anyone that could be considered aiding and abetting. If you give an expectant mother a ride to an abortion clinic you could be sued by literally anybody. In the course of due process a case is almost certain to end up before the Supreme Court one of these days but of course they can always decide not to hear it.

Not meant to be an optical illusion. Hopefully it doesn’t take more than a second or two to figure out what’s happening here.

Then send me a fax explaining why you no longer send text messages or e-mail.