My Money Blog is one of the best personal finance sites around, and today Jonathan posted a great riff about mortgages and affordability. Want to understand more about how people get screwed with mortgages they can’t really afford (even if it’s a fixed rate or low-ceiling ARM and not a screwy interest-only or ceiling-less […]

We’ve been going to Pine Ridge Church for about a month and a half, and looking back it feels like the whole time has been leading up to last Sunday and a message called I Hate Christians. That’s the message I’ve been waiting to hear in church for years. There are a lot […]

A few weeks ago I figured the “Rockies are a Christian organization” storyline would pick up steam as the Rockies plowed their way to winning 21-of-22 must-win games.  It’s taken longer than I thought (guess the media was too busy worrying what would happen if the World Series featured two teams from flyover states - […]

And that’s the truth.

I’m beside myself.  I just found out that Sam Wyche will be at Elon Saturday doing color commentary for the Elon-Georgia Southern football game televised on SportSouth.
I grew up going to Bengals games when he was head coach (my dad had season tickets) with Boomer Esiason, Anthony Munoz, Cris Collinsworth, James Brooks, Tim Krumrie, Ickey […]

Shockingly, shockingly, most lottery money doesn’t really go to education after all.
And the North Carolina lottery, which touted the amount of NC money going to the Virginia & SC lotteries as a primary reason for offering an NC lottery (“We just need to decide which schools we should fund, other states’ or ours.”), has missed […]

I remember last year when a big storyline in baseball was that the Rockies were “embracing a Christian-based code of conduct they believe will bring them focus and success.”  The story was first covered by USA Today, then The Nation freaked out about it, the Rockies players disputed the original article’s accuracy in a piece […]