come check out the digs and home of thedrewblog

but as i watched sportscenter i saw billy payne, augusta national golf club chairman, giving his speech, and though i agree with nearly everything he said, i was struck by one thought…

when is it ok to play judge?

if everyone knows your sin, is it ok for people to throw stones? does your celebrity factor into the equation? does the moral rating of the sin add to the way judgment is to be played out? i don’t ask this question out of sympathy or to defend woods’ actions. just a question i had running through my brain…

(if you don’t want to be spoiled don’t go any further)

leave it to a desmond centric episode to answer yet confuse things. seems as if we’re starting to see the blurring of the two realities. and wouldn’t you know it, that mrs. widmore already knows everything that’s going on, but doesn’t she always? there’s very little island developments, aside from seeing that widmore has plans for desmond to probably turn a key or push a button again.

i think we did get some clarification on one thing. the ‘flash sideways’ reality seems to be, what would have happened if the bomb went off. not only does daniel basically say as much, but this sheds some light on the first episode of the season. when juliet was dying in sawyer’s arms and she whispers to him that ‘it worked’, she was near dying or at least losing consciousness. perhaps she was experiencing the other reality? it would seem to make sense because of what we see happen to both charlie and desmond. i’ve heard and read some people say that they think the ‘flash sideways’ are what happens if mib (man in black) gets off the island. seems that we can put that theory to rest. course this is all speculation till we get something slightly more firm on screen.

what did you think about the episode?

7 questions i hope we get answered (but not holding my breath)
1. who are adam and eve?
2. why does it seem that certain people have ‘powers’ (ie Desmond, Hurley, Walt)?
3. who were/are jacob and mib (man in black)?
4. what are the ‘flash sideways’?
5. what’s the deal with the island under water?
6. what are the whispers?
7. did pressing the button really save the world?

what else should be on the list that i missed? (i’ll be updating these as answers are revealed).

(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

i’m a big tarheel fan. have been since my days living in VA. when it comes to basketball i’m an ACC guy through and through. and college basketball is finally upon us and i couldn’t be more excited. if i had to choose, it is by far my favorite season of any sport, pro or college. the fans, the hustle, the drama….all far superior to anything any other sport brings to the table, period.

what i also love about it, is that you have ‘rebuilding’, or as some say about UNC ‘reloading’, seasons. i love them! you never know what you’re going to get, you get to meet and cheer on new players, and no matter what your team is ranked, if they make the dance they have a shot.

that sums up where i’m at with this carolina team. they have lots of young studs, but most young studs, play young in their first season. UNC has a few hold overs from last year’s championship team, who will provide good leadership to the young guys. all i can say for sure is that they’re talented, athletic and have lots of long tall bodies. should be an entertaining season.

last night we challenged the students to have a different view of God. to see that God is untamed, and that the plan that He has for our lives may seem crazy, uncomfortable, and maybe even dangerous.

we did two rapid fire sessions this morning. when i say rapid fire, i mean that 6 of us had only 10 minutes to speak on one topic that we felt most passionately about. it seemed to go over pretty well. i always like switching it up.

tonight i’ll be talking about how as the people of God we are called to be untamed. we are called to stop living safe, comfortable lives and follow God where ever He leads.

more goodness to come for the rest of the day and tomorrow

as i was watching it though, i couldn’t help but wonder if there was some sort of message trying to be sent to the audience. the miami herald’s Glenn Garvin had this to say about the potential ‘message’ being sent…

V, an ambitious remake of a 1980s NBC show, in many respects stays close to the original’s story line. What has changed — radically — is the political subtext.
But ABC’s series takes aim not at a German dictator from the misty past but a sitting — and popular — U.S. president. From the fawning reaction of the news media (sample press-conference question to V leader Anna: “Is there such a thing as an ugly visitor?”) to the recruiting of human supporters into an alien front group that could easily be mistaken for “community organizing,” the parallels to Obama are unmistakable.

The anti-V underground, in its frustrated insistence that the aliens have a covert agenda, resemble nothing so much as the anti-Obama tea party protesters [my edit] . And even the president’s repeated attempts to suborn Republicans into making his program bipartisan get a scorching reference.

“Compromising one’s principles for the greater good is not a shameful act,” a V leader reassures an erstwhile opponent who’s just been bought off. “It’s a noble one.”

do i think that V will become a critique and political commentary? i hope not. do i think the writer(s) of this show intend this? i would be hard pressed to see how they couldn’t. i was just glad to know that i wasn’t the only one who saw this underlying theme in the episode.

the good news is, you can watch this show regardless of political affiliation and enjoy it. though i’m sure some will turn it off because of the intended or unintended metaphors.