New Term – “Nuke The Fridge”

Nuke the fridge is a colloquialism used to refer to the moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as a previous installments, due to ridiculous or low quality storylines, events or characters.

The term comes from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which, near the start of the movie, Harrison Ford’s character survives a nuclear detonation by climbing into a kitchen fridge, which is then blown hundreds of feet through the sky whilst the town disintegrates. He then emerges from the fridge with no apparent injury. Later in the movie, the audience is expected to fear for his safety in a normal fistfight.

Fans of the Indiana Jones series found the absurdity of this event in the film to be the best example of the lower quality of this installment in the series, and thus coined the phrase, “nuke the fridge”.

The phrase is also a reference to the phrase “jump the shark”, which has the same meaning, only applied to a television series instead of a film series.

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Yes, I Am a Preacher’s Kid

I’m a preacher’s kid.

It’s only lately that I’ve realized just how much that identity has affected me. It’s written on ever facet of my life. It’s affected me in good ways and bad ways. And in many, many sad ways.

The thing that makes me most upset about being a preacher’s kid-“PK” as we’re often called-is that no one really understands our specific experience, nor the specific pressures that come with it. In society, we’re typically stereotyped. Made fun of. Looked up to yet resented at the same time. It never really occurs to people to ask us who we are. And it never occurs to people that many of us are in pain. And are terrified to talk about it.

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Pastors Praying for Candidates

The Houston mega-pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell—who presided over Jenna Bush’s wedding last month and has offered spiritual counsel to her father—is a Christian VIP, so busy that his cell-phone voicemail says, “Do not leave messages here.” But on Friday mornings, whether he’s at church, in the car or on the golf course, Caldwell tries to dial into a certain highlevel conference call. At 9:30 Eastern time, a group of religious leaders gathers “telephonically,” as Caldwell puts it; for 15 minutes, they pray for Sen. Barack Obama.

“Typically,” Caldwell says, “whoever is praying always prays for the senator and his wife. For his safety, surety, soundness of mind, clarity of thought.” One person leads the prayer; everyone else listens. The leaders pray that planes land safely and that Secret Service agents keep their eyes open. (When Caldwell does the blessing, “he also prays for Senator Clinton and Senator McCain,” says the Rev. Michael Battle, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta.) The number of participants ranges from a handful to 100. Obama is not on the line.

Americans are accustomed to images of pastors praying with politicians (Billy Graham has counseled nearly every president since Eisenhower), but never before has prayer—nearly 75 percent of Americans say they pray once weekly or more, according to the Pew Research Center—been such an orchestrated part of a presidential campaign. In addition to the Friday-morning prayers, there are separate weekly prayer-and-strategy calls for the campaign’s Roman Catholic, Jewish, evangelical and African-American faith-group leaders.

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I like this idea . .

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Wednesday challenged Sen. Barack Obama to join him for a series of 10 town-hall debates.

Calling for “no process questions from reporters” and “no spin rooms,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee proposed one debate a week from now until the Democratic party convention in August.

McCain also suggested he and his rival travel together to the first debate as a symbolic gesture.

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For the first time in my life, I’m actually pretty happy with the candidates each party will nominate.

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