Jake: I’m actually surprised that Kim hasn’t pulled those quotes I linked to off of his website. I remember another one from the same timeframe in which he stated quite clearly, more clearly than his “Merry Christmas” song, that the war in Afghanistan would be over by 2002, with Osama Bin Laden dead and Americans dancing in the streets. That one is gone, it seems, but the slightly-more-vague-but-still-obviously-completely-false ones remain.

Trivia: I once heard Benny Hinn use the Lord’s name in vain within five feet of me, when I used to work for a tv evangelist (not Benny). Not just swearing, mind you, about which I generally feel the same that someone around here recently essayed. Was it Eric? With the front page gone, I can’t remember! Anyway, not just swearing, but an actual vile Gosh-darnit, the worst of all.

Trivia 2: I quite recently watched a short documentary my brother had downloaded off the internet in which Pat Robertson is captured on camera using the very same phrase. I’m not sure which was more important, the words he used or the way he was whispering to one of his lackeys to do what he had just pledged on nationwide television he would never do. This was back when he ran for Pres.

To balance things out, I’ll say this about Kim Clement. I was at a meeting once years ago where he started calling people out of the crowd by name and telling them things about their personal lives that he shouldn’t have known. It was my church at the time (I just can’t get away from the guy!) and I knew the people to whom he was speaking, and it was dead-on, and some of it even the pastor of the church didn’t know. I have no idea how he did it, as it seemed far beyond any usual parlor tricks, and wasn’t typical psychic-prompting. That said, for my own family members he had no special knowledge or “words” or anything, so maybe he just does far more elaborate research than I could possibly have imagined. Of course, I think he’s also full of crap, whether God told him everybody’s name and life story or not.

Michael: I don’t know if my wife would sit through any movie with Cameron, Lucy and Drew for 90 minutes. She doesn’t love me that much.

Judd: Can’t you skip the inane plot and really bad action set-pieces and get one of those edited-for-hotels skinny dipping videos? 8^)

Eric: I’m trying really hard not to covet your concert tickets. Must swap out Chemical Brothers for Van Morrison for tomorrow. For now, though, I’m going home.