A Weekend for Wake-Up Calls

Couldn't help but notice some of the head-scratching, thought-jarring ideas that floated across the blogosphere over the weekend. To wit:

A radical Jesus
So much for what my friends and I often refer to as the "Dan Fogelberg" Jesus of our youths...the brown-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, white-robed guy who looked like the 70s folk singer. He'll soon be replaced by a Jesus of color in "Son of Man," a film that debuted over the weekend at Sundance Film Festival and portrays Jesus involved in modern-day struggles in Palestine and South Africa. That, on the same weekend that religion professor Charles' Marsh's op-ed essay, "Wayward Christian Soldiers", was the 24th-most-cited news story.

Forrest Gump was right about stupid?
Saturday's second most-cited news story discloses that today's U.S. college grads may not be as bright as everyone hopes, even for mundane tasks like understanding credit card offers or analyzing news stories. The blogger at PTWSTSTS: News for People Who Hate News offers the perfect headline.

Democrats, take heed
And editorialist Molly Ivins, never one to mince words, made it to No. 21 among Saturday's most-cited links for her column titled "Not. Backing. Hillary.", which has some pointed advice for Democrats looking to unseat Republicans in 2006 and 2008. Says Brilliant at Breakfast: "Molly joins the put up or shut up club."

Bloggers arrest a terrorist?
That's what the Jawa Report is claiming (Saturday's second-most-cited blog post)...that subtle and not-so-subtle links and posts in a blog led to the arrest of a would-be terrorist in Ohio.

BlogPulse on MSNBC Dateline:
Each week, BlogPulse helps the folks at MSNBC Dateline get a handle on blog activity and buzz, and correspondent Josh Mankiewicz features the blogosphere on his Mank Blog and in his short weekly segment.