This probably happens a lot: a new bar is opening, and the local community church disapproves. They petition to the relevant authorities, and pray that divine forces will intervene in the bar’s opening. Construction goes ahead, regardless.

However, in Mount Vernon, Texas, the story takes a twist: the bar is hit by lightning before it can open, and burns to the ground.

Struck. By. Lightning.

The churchgoers are all smug, of course. Power of prayer, and all that. Until the bar owner sued the church, claiming that their prayers caused the damage to his establishment.

And the church is now in the awkward position of having to argue in court that the power of prayer is not real.

And we at the Big Bad Blog are left smirking.

Image is by Heng Swee Lim, and for sale on etsy.
Webcomic is Cat Versus Human, by Yasmine Surovec.

Strippers? Pornography? This morning coffee is going to be popular with the search engines.

We begin with pornography. Lyndsey G shares her thoughts about the impact of pornography on our sex lives. It is a fantastic look at how our environment shapes our expectations, and face-coating climaxes. Here’s a particularly fantastic excerpt:

As recently as the ’80s and early ’90s, facials weren’t all that common, but to look at porn today you’d think some Porn Pope had issued a Pop-Shot Bull decreeing that facials were the only proper type of cumshot and must be used in Blue Films unto boredom.

(Solar powered airplane Solar Impulse in flight, piloted by Andre Borschberg. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini. Found at The Big Picture.)

Churchgoers picketing a strip club? Not morning coffee material. Strippers responding by picketing a church? That gets our attention.

Finally, the science of baby names … or at least baby initials. If they spell something good, your child will live longer. Spell something bad, there may be an early death. So avoid baby UGH, and go for baby ACE.