I don’t watch a lot of TV, especially not a lot of fictional TV. I watch some ESPN (baseball and football games, PTI, bits and pieces of SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight, etc.), some Discovery (MythBusters, Dirty Jobs), A&E (Flip This House), CNBC (Mad Money), CNN (Lou Dobbs Tonight). Most of those I don’t watch […]

Tuesday Morning Quarterback:
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, one of the leading 20th-century astronomers, won a Nobel Prize for his 1930s studies that maintained the most common category of exploding stars, called the Type Ia supernova, could not exceed about 1.4 times the mass of our sun; this seemed to impose an upper boundary on the amount of destruction […]

Champions Again has a great niche - throwback college apparel, including this NC State sweatshirt and even some throwback Elon swag.
Champions Again was founded by two Elon grads (a Sports Med major and a Poli Sci major - go figure), and they’ve now got two other employees. So they’re still a small company with […]

WSJ got religion back in September, and today they got it again (subscription required). This time Suzanne Sataline (who wrote the previous article as well) writes about pastors who plagiarize sermons from internet sources. Here’s today’s piece:
The Rev. Brian Moon says he has come up with ideas for his sermons after water-skiing, while […]

AP, 11/7/06:
Citing a lack of time, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson withdrew Tuesday from the team overseeing counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor who was fired amid allegations of gay sex and drug use.
“Emotionally and spiritually, I wanted to be of help - but the reality is I don’t have […]

Lou Dobbs:
Voters chose to overturn our current one-party political structure and returned checks and balance to our government. November 7 also demonstrated that the American electorate is far more discerning and independent-minded than either political party or our elites would like to believe.
While the Democratic Party was the clear winner, I don’t believe for even […]