Things that made my head explode this past week

The lovely Carol didn't understand what I meant by "made my head explode"; you can read it as "made my head spin" if you prefer.

Anyway, here they are, in no particular order:

• In His Needs, Her Needs for Parents: Keeping Romance Alive the recommendation that couples with kids allocate 15 waking hours per week to spend Alone Together (not just alone and together). This is not a typo; he means over two hours a day, no kids.
• ibid., the claim that following this recommendation could lead to daily lovemaking.
• the scene in Kill Bill Vol. 2 where a sword-carrying pistol-wielding Uma Thurman confronts David Carradine and sees (SPOILER ALERT!) their 4-year-old daughter for the first time. I had no idea what Tarantino was going to do next.
• Dr. Sarah Sumner's Men and Women in the Church: Building Consensus on Christian Leadership, several revelations. I cannot do justice to them here, but they include
  1. Startling exegeses of 1 Timothy 2 and Ephesians 5
  2. A (partial) explanation of what "head" (1 Cor. 11, etc.) means
  3. A satisfying explanation of "weaker vessel" (1 Peter 2)

BTW I haven't figured out how to get money from amazon.com for all the links I make to their pages. But I'm not sure I really want to, either. If you'd rather have me put links to some other bookseller, let me know and I might change my linking paradigm...