I told you about Indiana (twice). I told you about Arizona. Now, the Mona Lisa Project has moved on to Tennessee. And <sarcasm>astoundingly</sarcasm>, yet another Planned Murderhood counselor was caught on camera telling a girl (actually and adult posing as a 14-year-old pregnant from her 31-year-old boyfriend) to lie to a judge and to her parents in order to obtain an abortion. Sex between a 14-year-old and an adult is a crime in Tennessee. It is also a crime for an adult who hears about it not to go immediately to the police.

How long will it take for authorities to realize this is a pattern? That Planned Murderhood will do anything and everything, including breaking the law and lying to little girls to get more abortions notched on their belt?

I recently discovered a cool time-waster on the intertubes.

Wikipedia has the most comprehensive “This Day In History” collection that I’ve seen. I was surprised by today’s entry (April 20th).

There were major, commercial plane crashes on April 20th of 1967, ’68, ’78, and ’98. Is it just me, or is that statistically remarkable?!

The other major event from April 20th was the Colombine massacre. Do you remember were you were when you got the news? I was sitting in Computer Algorithms class at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs (less than an hour away from the school). My friend Bryce Webster, the first person I knew who owned a PDA, told me after he had read it on a news feeder.

I can’t believe that not even one person guessed on my music meme post!! None on the blog and none on Facebook. What’s the matter, people? Too tough for ya?

1. Mom and dad, I am fine, how are you?
(Reality, Newsboys – Shine: The Hits)

2. I can’t stop thinking about it, I don’t like living without it.
(Sometimes, Pillar – The Reckoning)

3. Pack up all my cares and woe. Feeling low. Here I go.
(Bye Bye Blackbird, Joe Cocker – Sleepless in Seattle Soundtrack)

4. Where I came from there were no hills at all.
(White As Snow, U2 – No Line on the Horizon)

5. Seven o’clock in the evening, watching something stupid on TV.
(Trapped in the Drive-Thru, Weirld Al Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood)

6. We met these sisters _______’s their last name. (Word removed for rule #2 above.)
(Barlow Girls, Superchick – Karaoke Superstars)

7. There seems to be something going on inside of you.
(Staring Back, Pillar – Where Do We Go From Here)

8. Receive Him! (Sorry, this breaks rule #2 above.)
(Receive Him, Five Iron Frenzy – Proof That the Youth Are Revolting)

9. Request the honor of your presence, the tear gas has blown away.
(Woohoo, News Boys – Shine: The Hits)

10. If you’ve been there, put your hands in the air and let somebody know that the Most High cares. (Used second line for rule #2 above.)
(Stories (Down to the Bottom), Superchick – Beauty From Pain)

11. When I was young, the smallest trick of light would catch my eye.
(Every New Day, Five Iron Frenzy – Our Newest Album Ever)

12. I have climbed the highest mountains, I have run through the fields.
(I still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, U2 – Rattle And Hum)

13. “There must be some way outta here,” said the joker to the theif.
(All Along the Watchtower, U2 – Rattle and Hum)

14. I’ve had questions without answers. I’ve known sorrow. I’ve known pain.
(When the Tears Fall, Newsboys – Devotion)

15. Since you’ve been gone, since you’ve been unglued, it’s hard to figure out your next move.
(You Can Do It, No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom)

16. Come on, babe, why don’t we paint the town?
(All That Jazz, Chicago soundtrack)

17. Lord my God, in the morning show me how I can serve you today.
(Lift Me Up, The O.C. Supertones – Loud and Clear)

18. In the quickness of our haste it seems we forget how to live.
(World Go ‘Round, No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom)

19. Let me introduce you somebody that I know.
(Who Could It Be, The O.C. Supertones – Loud and Clear)

20. I wear a disquise. I’m just your average Jane.
(One Girl Revolution, Superchick – Karaoke Superstars)

21. You left me sad and lonely. Why did you leave me lonely?
(You’re Drivin’ Me Crazy, Squirrel Nut Zippers – The Inevitable)

22. And now the purple dusk of twilight time steals across the meadows of my heart.
(Stardust, Nat King Cole – Sleepless In Seattle soundtrack)

23. I was born the child of grace. Nothing else about the place.
(All Because of You, U2 – How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)

24. The flowers they cover your feet. All the colors of you and they shine over all I see.
(Tearing Down, The Psychedelic Furs – World Outside)

25. Make me. Take me. Break me.
(Pierced, Audio Adrenaline – Adios: The Greatest Hits)

26. You see in the past I had a dream, a fantasy.
(End It On This, No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom)

27. Tears have fallen. Water beads. Wipe the floor with my regrets.
(Praises, Newsboys – Shine: The Hits)

28. I’d rather take a shot in the chest than take a shot in the back.
(Crossfile, Pillar – The Reckoning)

29. I had a song about clouds and rainbows. I hum a tune that sings like a dove.
(Antying But Love, Squirrel Nut Zippers – The Inevitable)

30. Hold me close and hold me fast. The magic spell you cast.
(La Vie En Rose, Louis Armstrong – French Kiss soundtrack)

I got a couple of responses to my Brain Strain post. They were close. Although, Elysse did have a good point about the plurality of the verb.

“theirs” should be “there’s”

“precisly” should be “precisely”

“three” should be “two”

Yesterday, I was a little late leaving the house. When I pulled out onto the main road on my way to work, I immediately saw that oncoming traffic was being blocked at the top of the hill. I drove cautiously, not knowing what to expect.

I get really angry when people rubber-neck at accidents, thus slowing traffic for no good reason other than ghoulish curiosity. Thus, I try really hard not to do the same thing. Still, I couldn’t help but see the white SUV leaning oddly against a tree just off the road, crumpled on every side. A rollover. Sitting at the next light, I saw in my mirror the Care Flight helicopter landing. Scary. I said a quick prayer.

As I continued my commute, my brain in neutral, I wondered about the wreck. How could that truck have rolled right there. There was no intersection. The speed limit is only 45, not fast enough to take a full-sized SUV all the way over. The shoulder there is steep, with a good sized drop off were new pavement was added. I knows this well since I’ve ridden my bike over it a hundred times. Maybe he wasn’t paying attention, dropped off the ledge and over-corrected. Still, must have been speeding on top of that. Hmm.

Then my thoughts turned to empathy. What hidden danger could turn my life upside down on an average, mundane Tuesday morning? Something as simple has fiddling with the radio volume or glancing at the clock. It only takes a fraction of a second for someone to step out in front of you, a careless cyclist to shoot into traffic, or the car ahead to have a mechanical failure. Then… BAM! Life happens.

I read on the news (yeah, I know. Surfing at work. Shame.) about that mornings incident. A 75-year-old man and an unknown driver in a black Nissan seemed to be chasing each other, weaving through traffic. The old man lost control, rolled, ejected, and died. The headline reads, “Aggressor Dies in Road Rage Crash.” BAM! Life happened… and ended.

That evening, almost home, I saw the puddle of glass on the shoulder, the bruised and broken tree. The fragility of life washed over me. Treat every day with care. Treat every relationship with love. Treat every opportunity with relish. Because you never know when life will happen to you.

BAM!

Incontrovertibly, theirs precisly three mistakes in this nonessential, unsubstantial sentence. What are they?