Word: lording
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...condoms full of truth, and I'm smuggling them across the border!"--that his glee is infectious. Like the band Weezer or The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, he is in the grand modern tradition of the swaggering nerd. (The nerd part, by the way, is not unautobiographical. An ardent Lord of the Rings fan, Colbert is the proud owner of a portrait of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn--drawn in frosting inside a chocolate frame--that the actor gave him after a Daily Show appearance...
...understand yet. If you want to recruit the future generation of scientists, you don't draw a box around all our scientific understanding to date and say, "Everything outside this box we can explain only by invoking God's will." Back in 1855, no one told the future Lord Rayleigh that the scientific reason for the sky's blueness is that God wants it that way. Or if someone did tell him that, we can all be happy that the youth was plucky enough to ignore them. For science, intelligent design is a dead-end idea...
...gentle ballad “Make Me Pure,” he settles on his faults (“I got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones beneath this skin”), and, paraphrasing St. Augustine’s fabled exhortation, he pleads to the Lord to “make me pure, but not yet.” Backed up by a strumming guitar, Williams sounds like a British Tom Petty, minus that trademark Southern twang. The power ballad gets a glossy makeover on “Intensive Care” with “Spread Your...
...polemical line that detonates in climaxes such as his rejection of the idea of Jesus as primarily a moral tutor: "You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher." That passage, with its anvil-chorus cadence and utter disdain for any diminution of Christ's divinity in favor of his more mortal aspects, may not be Lewis' most subtle...
...blast site when she heard the noise. "There was screaming, and then the air was full of dust, and people were worried they'd asphyxiate themselves," she says. "Everyone got down on their knees; there was real fear and panic at that moment." She remembers eating at the Lord Krishna hotel, which is right opposite the bomb blast site, just a few nights ago with an Indian friend. He had pointed out to her that the loudspeakers were blaring out in Hindi, again and again: "Be careful, there could be terrorists around...