smacky and bucky

I let the dog out this morning, and stood in the backyard looking up at a little sliver of a moon. Of course, the first thing that entered my mind was, "That's no moon. That's a battle station."

Question: If Kirk Cameron is a big Christian, going so far as to get the girl that played his fiance on Growing Pains fired because she posed in Playboy, why did he hang out for a decade with someone named Boner? Did it make him feel really uncomfortable, or did he not get the irony?