I’m receiving my MBA on Friday, and today my first gift arrived. A custom bottle of Nortonburg White wine from Simmons Winery in my hometown. Thanks, Mom and Dad.

The push is still on for North Carolina to have a lottery. Forget about all the other arguments against the lottery (it’s a regressive tax, only a very small percentage actually goes toward education or other public services, the state forbids gambling yet with a lottery runs the only gambling game in town) for […]

We got home late last night, sometime around 10, from a going-away cookout for our friends Josh and Carrie Ann. Cam & Raegs fell asleep in the van on the way home, but Kier was still wide awake. I took her out of the van first while we got Cam & Raegs out. […]

The Drudge Report has an interesting look at a recent exchange between Tim Russert and Secretary of State Colin Powell. It seems Russert’s line of questioning was a bit too direct for Powell’s press aide, who redirected the camera away from Powell and tried to end the interview. Powell commanded the aide to […]

My clothing lineup today: Honduras, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, India, and the same good old made in the USA belt. I thought I was going to have an all-Central America day at first, then my shirt (Gap) and shoes (Rockport) showed Cambodia and India respectively.
Back to the question of how to define “better.” […]

I’m feeling downright international today. Continuing to chew on James 5 and oppression, so this morning when I was getting dressed for work I decided to see where all my clothes were made. I’m wearing goods manufactured in Costa Rica, Honduras, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, Colombia, and USA (my lonely belt is the […]

Great discussion at small group about James 5, and Inkslinger has already posted about it as well.
The most compelling part of the discussion for me was in reference to the first part of the chapter:
And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You’ll need buckets for the tears when the […]