My son Chris got off to a good start in his Pony League baseball season on Sunday, going 1-3 (including a beautiful bunt single) while reaching base in 4 of 5 plate appearances with no strike outs...
You think you know things, and then you discover again that what you don't know is a lot. Witness Laura Rozen's account on her blog War and Piece of a trip to the central Chinese city of Wuhan. She begins, "Until recently, I had never heard of this city, (me neither, ed) the capital of Hubei Province on the Yangtze River. But it has 7.9 million people, dwarfing even Manhattan in population."...
The Los Angeles Galaxy have finally been given an attractive shirt by Nike. Of course, it is the second shirt, which they will hardly ever wear, but you take what you can get...
James Wolcott has a hilarious take, "Gubernator Turns a Paler Shade of Chicken", on the reception Gov. Schwarzenegger has received on his fundraising trip from those flaming radicals... nurses. He called them out recently, and they have answered...
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings. Connected to the date is the news (via Obsidian Wings) that an Islamic organization in Spain has issued a fatwa against Osama bin Landin, declaring him an apostate. I think this is a hopeful sign...
The whole family attended the United States' 3-0 victory over Columbia in a friendly match at Cal State Fullerton. It was a beautiful night for the beautiful game, marred only by poor preparation by the stadium staff before the match and a lack of bacon wrapped hotdogs after...
Orange County pastor and keeper of the blog Tabletalk, Craig Williams, has a very thoughtful post on prayer, "justing" and "candle snuffing". Take a look...
And even though I mentioned it below, make sure you take a look at both posts (here and here - with a third coming) of Fred Clark's series on the sin of usury at Slacktivist. This is the kind of thoughtful Christian engagement on policy issues which we need much, much more of...
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