Hillcrest served lunch to 300 AISD teachers on Monday. More info here.
Keep up with Nicole Marett and her World Race.
“Can Jesus Microwave a Burrito.” Top 10 Funniest Google Suggest Results. “Google Suggest offers you real-time suggestions to complete your search query as you type. One of the factors in the algorithm that determines the results is the overall popularity of searches by other users. Part illuminating, part entertaining and part terrifying, Suggest is a window into the collective search psyche of our fellow humans. And based on the contents of this list — be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God is available for free this month on the Kindle.
(HT: Between Two Worlds). I’m reading it on the free Kindle app for my iPhone.
“Follow four simple rules and you could reduce your chronic-disease risk by as much as 80%, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The golden lifestyle rules: never smoking, maintaining a healthy body weight, exercising regularly, and eating a balanced diet” (Time)
Ten ways to see tithing, but only one is biblical.
“Suddenly, post-Schuler, it’s no longer funny when people crack a joke about ‘better parenting through alcohol’” (Time)
Anita Renfroe, the woman behind the YouTube hit about all the things Moms say in a day, had this to say in an entertaining RD interview:
Q. How do men react to your act?
A. They ask, “What about the dads?” So I wrote a song for them called “Dad-Sense.” It’s just two lines: “Ask your mom, ask your mom.” The guys don’t laugh much, but the women love it.
“Many parents — and I include myself in this category — keep a (somewhat) careful eye on television, computer and video game use. But we didn’t really take into account cellphones, since at least until recently, phones were intended, well, pretty much for calling people” (NYT article on new parental worries about scams and texting.)
Raising a Child Costs Some $221,000, Before College
“Why do people seek out their opposites in spending attitudes? Most likely, what we hate in ourselves, we also hate in other people. And the more we hate that quality in ourselves, the more we avoid it, the study suggested….Which is unfortunate. As previous studies have found, spending decisions are a common source of marital conflict and a major contributor to divorce. And as prior literature would predict, this new study showed that financially polar pairs report greater conflict over money, and lower levels of connubial bliss.” (NYT)
Three cheers for Robert Sloan and Houston Baptist University for their new publishing effort, the periodical, The City. Read online here. Baylor lost a good president when the leadership couldn’t stand with their man, but Baylor’s loss is HBU’s gain.
911 Call for Math Homework. Wait for the mom’s reaction at the end….
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare: Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
“So why all the outrage at the town hall meetings? Where do I begin? Obviously there are Americans who have a problem with some of the specifics of this health care reform initiative. But that’s not really the heart of it. The problem here for The White House may be that this is just too much big government all at one time. This is NOT just about health care. It’s about a government takeover of GM, a huge 800 billion dollar government bailout and now more huge government involvement in health care. Oy-vey! Americans may simply be sending a strong message. Enough is enough.” (The Brody File)
It’s getting harder to get away from it all if you want to . . .
“‘I get tired of people apologizing for the Crusades, like Christians were a bunch of dirty looters that went over there and killed everybody. It just wasn’t true.’” Baylor University’s Rodney Stark, in a Baptist Standard report on his new book, God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades. “Stark argues that Muslims asked for it—the Crusades were the first military response to Muslim terrorists and their looming, advancing Islamic empire. ‘It wasn’t like they were harmless, little people minding their own business and tending their sheep,’ Stark said.”
Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford: Saw this clip on the documentary, I.O.U.S.A., and then Christina linked to it on FBook. Good advice:
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