C Borah

It's official, Jesse Jackson is a lunatic

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:35:57 -0500

It's official, Jesse Jackson is a lunatic

Be on the lookout for hoverboard Michael J. Fox...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:02:58 -0500

Be on the lookout for hoverboard Michael J. Fox #BackToTheFuture2 #Anniversary

apatheticconformity: The surprising truth about what motivates...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:55:33 -0500

apatheticconformity:

The surprising truth about what motivates us. Great info and perfect animation.

The beginning and end are golden. America’s love letter to Great...

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:30:44 -0500

The beginning and end are golden. America’s love letter to Great Britain

"What was the funniest thing you’ve read about the World Cup this month? I liked Michael..."

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:30:00 -0500

“What was the funniest thing you’ve read about the World Cup this month?
I liked Michael Davies’ take on England’s demise: “Americans will never completely understand how crap it is, most of the time, to be English. We might have cute accents and be good at cocktail parties. But we are mostly losers.” That slayed me. England’s fatalistic, self-loathing, S&M-style attitude toward its national team tops Buffalo Bills fans, Minnesota Vikings fans or even Cleveland fans.

More gold…

If you could change anything about soccer, what would it be?
I hate how teams milk leads in the last 15-20 minutes by faking injuries and taking forever to sub players. When that Ghana player had to be carried off on a stretcher at the tail end of the America game, then hopped off like nothing ever happened as soon as the stretcher was out of bounds, I thought that was appalling. Actually, it made me want to go to war with Ghana. I wanted to invade them. I’m not even kidding. That’s another great thing about the World Cup: Name another sport in which you genuinely want to invade other countries when you lose.

Conclusion…

Regardless, the U.S. completed Stage 1. Soccer is no longer taking off. It’s here. Those celebratory YouTube videos that started popping up in the 24 hours after Donovan’s goal — all unfolding the same way, with a stationary shot of nervous fans watching the game in a bar, going quiet for a couple of seconds during the American counterattack, reacting to Dempsey’s miss (“Nooooooooo!”), holding their breath for two beats (“Wait a second …”), exploding on Donovan’s finish (“Hi-yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”), then chanting “USA! USA! USA!” afterward — tapped into a collective American sports experience unlike anything since Lake Placid.

I would never compare Donovan’s goal to Mike Eruzione’s goal, or compare the significance of an early-round World Cup game to the best American sports night ever. But you can’t tell me Donovan’s goal was a fleeting moment or a lark. Each celebration clip that landed on YouTube could have been any American bar, any group of American friends, anywhere. Like John Cougar Mellencamp’s annoying Chevy commercial sprung to life. Only it wasn’t annoying. I thought it was glorious. Those clips choked me up. Those clips gave me goosebumps. Those clips made me think, “I forget this sometimes, but I’m glad I live in the United States of America.”

Rasheed Wallace loved to say “ball don’t lie.” YouTube don’t lie, either. We will always have the Algeria game. Always.

Reading the whole article is well worth it…”

- Bill Simmons on the World Cup (mostly clean)

jborah: The Secret Powers of Time

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:45:31 -0500

jborah:

The Secret Powers of Time

Football + John Cleese

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:43:47 -0500

Football + John Cleese

30 seconds of fantastic.

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:04:12 -0500

30 seconds of fantastic.

Minus the cheesy music and closing titles, perhaps one of the...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:52:18 -0500

Minus the cheesy music and closing titles, perhaps one of the greatest montage videos ever. Enjoy.

"Woke up this morning too depressed and shamed to leave my bed Cant stand to see my own reflection so..."

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:18:25 -0500

“Woke up this morning too depressed and shamed to leave my bed
Cant stand to see my own reflection so I hang my head
feel like a disappointment like the scum of the earth
I’m so hurt I know you see I cant cover my dirt
my souls dying hearts weak and I cant even cry
I’m sposed to run to you but WHY I’m such an evil guy
The sun’s shining but for me it’s the darkest of days
Try to pretend it never happened but the guilt remains
I leave the house it feels like everybody knows I did it
Feel like they reading my mind and know the sin I committed
Through your blood I’m aquitted but my heart doesnt get it
Oh God I’m desperate for Help cause I’m grieving your Spirit
I couldn’t sing in the sunday service, Lord I felt fake
and when they started communion I just made an escape
I’m in need of your grace/ feels like you hid your face
Lord Lead me back to cross and show me my sins erased”

- Lecrae, Desperate (from the album, Rebel)

Artist: LecraeSong: TruthAlbum: Rebel This song right here is...

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:07:00 -0500

Artist: Lecrae
Song: Truth
Album: Rebel

This song right here is for everybody out there looking for truth
And who says, ya know, we all in the same boat
Christians, Muslims, everybody like that…(yo)
You’re looking for truth
(Oh) I got some answers man
(So good to me) uh…let’s get into it.

Let’s go…
Night and day I ain’t scared to sayin we different
They play the prostitute, but they like to say they just intimate
Idols in their heart, they can’t seem to lose the grip on it
Seem em walking in the direction they can get crippled with?
Our world is different like Whitley and Wayne, mayne
They say we look the same, but we ain’t chasin the same thing
It all boils down to they think everything is relative
Jesus might as well be a South American president
Very evident…they say that Jesus was heaven sent
They lifestyle reflects that they worship theyself instead of him
They don’t acknowledge the Christ
If they did, they wouldn’t worship themselves by the way that they live
All these rappers say they got guns that spray of 16
I got a Luke 9 that can take all 16
That’s the Bible, the one they call
But they don’t care about the author, They think he’s a joke

Man, see some folks say, “All truth is relative, it just depends on what you believe.” You know, “hey man, ain’t no way to know for sure who God is or what’s really true.” But that means you believe your own statement; that there’s no way to know what’s really true. You’re saying that that statement is true. You’re killing yourself. If what’s true for you is true for you and what’s true for me is true for me, what if my truth says your’s is a lie? Is it still true? Come on man!

I promise everybody is askin the same questions, “Who am I? What is my purpose and my direction?”
Probably believe that you exist for no other reason
Than self satisfaction, hedonism, and pleasing things
Life’s about you gettin yours and being happy
Even if it means a divorce and switchin families?
Your job, your house, your car, your spouse
It’s all for the glory of you…else you out
You go to school, get ya degrees, and get a job
So you can make a whole lot of cheese, cuz life’s hard
You never thought of livin to please a real God
And that’s the reason He made you
(See) He gave you breath to breathe, the chest to breathe it
So you can taste and see He’s the best, believe it
He made us for His glory, and not for your own, homie
Our God is holy…you should repent and die slowly…

See, there’s this thing called “Secular Humanism”, it says man is the source of all meaning and all purposing. You know what i’m saying? We’re just the result of a big cosmic explosion. We don’t really have a purpose or meaning, so we just come up with our own purpose. We’re the source of our meaning and our purpose. How can a man, which is the product of chance, a finite being be the source of purpose and meaning? You can’t! You’re created with purpose man! Get with The Creator yo!

Man, everybody got a problem with God
And when you mention the Christ, then they really get to turning the knob
But some say they roll with Christ
Cuz some rappers made him seem like He was cool with all the sin in they life
No!
But then some say, “How could God exist when all this evil stuff in the world keep persistin?”
Wrong question, ask again
How come God ain’t let you feel the wrath from sin?
What you thought last night deserves a first class flight to Hell
Where God doesn’t dwell, you got that right
But he brought back life on that cross that night
Christ died
You ain’t know that it cost that price?
All of God’s anger poured on His Son
Been together through all eternity
Now He was shun
Praise God for the life that was won for us
Ain’t got a beef with God because the Son was Christ

Look, man, some people say that God ain’t real ‘cause they don’t see how a good God can exsist with all this evil in the world. If God is real then He should stop all this evil, ‘cause He’s all-powerful right? What is evil though man? It’s anything that’s against God. It’s anything morally bad or wrong. It’s murder, rape, stealing, lying, cheating. But if we want God to stop evil, do we want Him to stop it all or just a little bit of it? If He stops us from doing evil things, what about lying, or what about our evil thoughts? I mean, where do you stop, the murder level, the lying level, or the thinking level? If we want Him to stop evil, we gotta be consistent, we can’t just pick and choose. That means you and I would be eliminated right? Because we think evil stuff. If that’s true, we should be eliminated! But thanks be to God that Jesus stepped in to save us from our sin! Christ died for all evilness! Repent, turn to Jesus man!”

So, so, sad.

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:09:23 -0500

So, so, sad.

On a bus ride into townI wondered, “Why am I going to...

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:47:39 -0500

On a bus ride into town
I wondered, “Why am I going to town?”
As I looked around
At the billboards and the stores
I thought, “Why do I look around?”
I got up and bowed
And I kissed the filthy ground
And in the first dry spot I found I laid back down
Without having to wonder
Why I was laying down

Before long I was too cold
And so I took a bus back to the station
I found a letter left by a pay phone
With no return contact
And it read like a horn blown
By some sad angel:
“Bunny, it was me
It was me who let you down”
It was the shyest attempt
I’d ever seen at conversation

If I didnt have you as my guide
I’d still wander lost in Sinai
Counting the plates of cars from out of state
(How I could jump in their path as they hurry along!)
Until you surround me
You’re pretty but you’re all I can see
Like a thick fog
If there was no way into God
I would never have laid in this grave of a body
For so long

St. Cyril’s fair always came through
The first week of September
But it’s already the 19th
And there’s no sign of it yet
I have a hard time remembering
The things I should remember
And a hard time forgetting
All the things I should forget

Oh Christ, when you’re ready to come back
I think I’m ready for you to come back
But if you want to stay wherever exactly it is you are
That’s okay too -
It’s really none of my business

And if I didn’t have you as my guide
I’d still be wandering lost in Sinai
Or down by the tracks
Watching trains go by to remind me:
There are places that aren’t here
I had a well but all the water left
So I’ll ask for your forgiveness
With every breath
If there was no way into God
I would never have laid in this grave of a body
So long, dear

Knuckleheads

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:50:02 -0500

Knuckleheads:

Get in on the action. I own a copy, really good stuff.

One year down (2 to go)

Sun, 30 May 2010 14:23:28 -0500

So this semester I finished up with 3 A’s, a B+, and a B. That gives me a 3.62 GPA for my first year of seminary (29 hours total, both semesters). My goal for next year: do better than the first!

Oh, Stephen. Again, pure gold.

Mon, 24 May 2010 07:32:39 -0500

Oh, Stephen. Again, pure gold.

More awesome mockery

Sun, 16 May 2010 17:48:02 -0500

More awesome mockery

If you go to church in America you need to watch this video.

Fri, 07 May 2010 13:49:54 -0500

If you go to church in America you need to watch this video.

The lack of news coverage for this disaster disgusts me.

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:49:04 -0500

The lack of news coverage for this disaster disgusts me.

Dropbox

Thu, 06 May 2010 23:49:09 -0500

Dropbox:

If for some strange reason you actually check my blog and haven’t yet heard of Dropbox then here ya go.