Funny T-Shirts

These are humorous t-shirt designs that I found and clipped. Some pretty good ingenuity.


The right to bear arms.


My favorite type of notebook paper.


The left hand would be the Green Lion, for those keeping score.


This one goes out to my homebody J-Ziman.


I'd apologize to all the Amish I offended, but that would be ironic.


The old Apple IIE and educational software from 1986.


Robert E. Lee. Ain't just a good car. Now it's a good t-shirt


If you don't like this one, you've lost your marbles. Haha. Get it?


Back in the day, we used to blast 8-bit ducks.


Elves at running back would be tough to tackle.


If you don't know what this means, you need to click here to take a look at a classic SNL skit.

Diesel Engines and Jesus

Editor's Note: I wrote the following article for FCC's quarterly mailing, a magazine called "The Spirit" which goes out to more than 250,000 homes in the Bay Area. Most people probably just throw it away, but a good portion read it. Special thanks communicator extraordinaire Jonathan "Soon to Be Papa-Of-Three" Ziman for the story idea.



I love the end of the year. I love it mainly because of all the Best of the Year End Review shows that always come on TV. I love looking back and seeing people rank the “Best of the Year” in movie moments, or sports highlights or news stories. And every year, they give awards for the best commercial.

According to the website iFilm this Honda Ad is the best commercial of the year. It features fantastic animation, a catchy song narrated by humorist Garrison Keillor, and cute animals. (BTW, if you want to look at another equally awe-inspiring Honda Ad made entirely from parts from an Odyssey Mini-van, head over to here)

But even more than that – and I know you’re going to call me crazy – but this commercial is unbelievably inspiring to me.

But first, I need to give you the back story. A few years back, Honda Motors called all its engineers and Research and Development people into a big meeting. They asked them to break down into groups and each group had to answer this one question: What is the thing in the automotive industry that you hate the most? What bugs the living daylights out of you? What is the one thing about cars that you can’t stand?

And the answer for these engineers and R&D thinkers was nearly unanimous: diesel engines.

“We hate them,” they all cried out. “They’re loud and noisy. They’re ugly. They smell terrible. They pour thick black soot into the air. Do we need to go on?”

And so the Heads of Honda gave these engineers a mandate. Fix it. Come up with a better solution. If you hate it so much, then fix it. Honda’s new slogan was simple:

Hate Something. Change Something.

And they did. The new engine is clean. It’s quiet. It’s super powerful and fuel-efficient, and it has the same emissions as a typical gasoline engine. It also has a device that changes those smelly, toxic diesel emissions into harmless, simple nitrogen and carbon dioxide.

Hate Something. Change Something.

Here’s why I feel that this commercial is so inspiring. I think that a lot of times, the only time we really change anything in this world or in our lives is if we start to get a little bit angry. When we reach the end of our rope. When we see something day after day after day and finally we can’t stand it anymore. And we say, “That’s gotta change.”

I think this is probably why health club memberships spike in January. People look at themselves and say, “I’m too overweight. And I’m tired of looking at this. I’m done.” And they change.

So what about you? What if I sat you down in a room and asked you this simple question. What is the one thing about yourself that you hate the most? What is the one thing that drives you nuts about yourself?

• Maybe it’s the way your anger rears its ugly head and wreaks havoc on those around you.
• Maybe it’s your pessimistic, negative attitude – you always seem to be a in a sour mood.
• Maybe it’s your selfishness – you spend almost all your time and energy thinking about yourself
• Maybe it’s your insecurities and how you always feel like you’re jockeying for position to get people to notice you and appreciate you.

So as the New Year approaches, why don’t you get angry? Why don’t you be like those Honda Engineers, who had just had it up to here with stinky, noisy, dirty diesel engines.

I’m going to be honest here – all the self-help books in the world probably aren’t going to help you fix your problems. Because frankly, most of our problems are deep issues that have to deal with our soul.

Thomas More, who wrote the book “Care of the Soul” wrote this profound statement

The great malady of the 20th century is implicated in all of our problems individually and socially is the “loss of the soul.” When the soul is neglected, it doesn’t just go away. It appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate the symptoms and try to eradicate them one by one. But the root problem is that we have lost our wisdom about the soul. Even our interest in it. We have come the soul only in its complaints, when it stirs, disturbed by neglect and abuse and it causes us to feel its pain.

Maybe it’s time to stop ignoring your soul. Maybe you’ve had that nagging sense for a while now. And if that’s you, then my advice is pretty simple. Hate Something. Change Something. And come to church. It might just change your life.

Remember the Late 90s?

Well, if you don't, you can go on a polka tour through the most popular songs of 1997 and 1998 with my old favorite, Weird Al. His polka mixes still make me laugh, even to this day.

If you wanna time travel back to the era of Hanson, the Spice Girls and Third-Eye Blind, you can do it by clickinghere.

Celibate in the City: Former Bachelorette bachelor’s new book outlines how to make sense of love, sex and dating

Editor's Note: The following article is a review of the book "Undressed: The Naked Truth about Love, Sex and Dating" by Jason Illian, a former Bachelorette contestant who was eliminated when he revealed that he was waiting until marriage. I got an advance copy of the book, read it and liked it a bunch. This is my review.



Most people probably won’t find it hard to believe that Jason Illian isn’t married yet.

If you don’t know who Illian is, he is the former Bachelorette bachelor who shocked TV viewers and stirred up headlines around the nation’s water coolers when he publicly declared on the show that he not only had never had sex, but that he wanted to wait until marriage. Imagine! Admitting – in front of God and millions of TV viewers – that you’re a 30-year-old virgin. It’s social suicide. You might as well go ahead and say you enjoy dressing up in your grandmother’s undergarments. Most people I know look at a guy like that and think to themselves, “Are you kidding me?”

But when Ilian came out of the closet so to speak as a Christian, I have to say, I cheered. You see, at the time, I was engaged to my future wife. And just recently, we had been out to dinner with her father and step-mom and somehow (and I still don’t know how this happened) the topic of sex came up. Yeah. I know. I think that was the third level of Hell in Dante’s Inferno.

At any rate, we wound up telling them that we were waiting until we were married to have sex. I will never forget the look on my soon-to-be-step-mother-in-law’s face. It was as though I had said, “On Tuesdays, I spread strawberry preserves on myself and then wrap myself in Saran Wrap.”

“It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re doing, it’s that I don’t understand why,” she said.

And it was to answer exactly that question why Illian wrote his first book entitled “Undressed: The Naked Truth about Love, Sex and Dating.” It’s a hilarious and moving tome about the perils of being Celibate in the City and the battle that Illian has fought to get to the place where his faith in God intersects with the real world of dating and relationships.

You see, Illian believes that God actually exists. And more than that, God isn’t some impersonal cosmic force, but a God who – in the words of Jesus – is like a father. A God who cares deeply about the things we do in life and the kinds of people we are becoming.
And Illian believes that sexual freedom, like any freedom – drinking, eating, voting – can be very harmful if done recklessly. And I don’t think I need to cite much evidence to prove that our culture is sexually reckless, and it’s left a lot of really hurt people in its wake.

Illian’s book is a compelling read because it presents a relevant, accessible and common sense entry point for people to consider the Biblical concept of sexuality. The idea in Christianity about sex is one of the most unpopular of all the Christian virtues. But there is no getting around it. The Christian rule is this: either marriage - with complete faithfulness to your partner - or else total abstinence.

After hearing that, and after looking at our culture, you have two choices. You can say that Christianity is wrong. Or you can say that as a culture, our sexual instincts have gone awry. Being a Christian, obviously Illian thinks that our culture’s views of sexuality are off-kilter. His book goes a long way to helping light a way back.

After reading his book, I reflected for a time on what it is going to mean to have to raise my 19-month old son in modern society. I think that Illian’s views represent the last best hope for both men and women in our culture which is ever-finding new and increasingly blatant ways to cheapen not only sex, but male-female relationships. His articulation of Biblical views might sound crazy to a lot of people, and maybe even radical. His advice certainly flies in the face of everything we’re told in the locker room, on the school yard, on TV shows, and in movies.

But then again, it is no measure of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. And so maybe his advice is worth a try.