I just discovered a great site, Baseball-Reference.com. It’s got more baseball stats than any other site I’ve seen, but the killer app on this site is its revenue model. Instead of having traditional banner ads like most web sites, baseball-reference.com sells a “sponsorship” for each page. A page can be for a […]

The gas station I pass on the way to and from work each day is selling regular unleaded self-serve gas for $1.689. The federal gasoline tax is 18.3 cents per gallon, and the North Carolina gasoline tax is now 24.2 cents per gallon. So 42.5 cents or just over 25%, of what I […]

The last Left Behind book, The Glorious Appearing, releases tomorrow. I read the first 4 books in the series and tired of them quickly. The first couple were entertaining reads, in spite of the cliches and questionable theology. I read the first chapter of The Glorious Appearing and got confirmation that I […]

Wow. According to Christianity Today, The Passion of the Christ is having some profound effects on people:
They said The Passion of The Christ would provoke neo-Nazis, and they were right: in one case, it’s provoking a neo-Nazi to confess to his sins and repent.
Johnny Olsen, whom the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten calls “one of Norway’s […]

Had a great small group gathering last night. Men & women talked separately, and we XYers talked about two unrelated things that became related in my mind upon reflection.
The first was a followup discussion about James 2, which we studied last week. Faith and works. We talked last week about putting our […]

Very interesting comments about the present and future of Europe on the blog of a Harvard Law student. I’ve copied his entire post below:

Spain has been in the news lately, both for her Muslim guests who bombed the trains of Madrid (killing more than 200 people) and her citizens who voted for a new […]

The “Lord’s Gym” T-shirt isn’t tacky enough. Nooooooo. Now there’s a REAL “Lord’s Gym” health club in Florida. And the owner wants to make it a national chain. The story reads more like it’s from The Holy Observer or The Onion than from Fox News, which is where it’s actually from. […]