Gregor Mendel - Give Peas a Chance

"Ref, I didn't do anything!"

A survey released earlier this month pegs Congress' approval rating at 9%. The Taliban came in at 11%.

Funny or cruel? (I vote funny, but I've been accused of being just a bit warped.)
Flip Flop prank

Each day Slate.com includes a collection of artistic photographs on a single theme titled "Todays Pictures." Today's is "Stripes." This feature is one of my almost-daily stops.

Oil dropped $6.45 a barrel today and the U.S. trade deficit has narrowed. The former is due to a drop in demand and the latter because the weakened dollar encourages overseas buyers to spend money on U.S. products and services.
Amazing how the economy works if government stays out of the way.

Stats released today show the average price of a home in the Phoenix metro area dropped 18% from April of '07 to April of '08. That's the biggest same-month-last-year drop so far. Now is the time to buy, folks! Deals to be had in the valley of the sun.

Does ice cream count as protein?

Each week TIME magazine has a one page interview with somebody famous who gets asked a dozen reader submitted questions. Last week's interview was with some famous fashion designer whose name I didin't recognize. (I've never been accused of being a fashionista. Just ask Leslie of Jamestown, whose patience I have pressed to the limit.)
He was asked what he thought was the worst look he'd ever seen. He said it was probably sandals with socks.
I have just enough fashion sense to avoid that one, but it occurred to me last night that I might just as well do it.
When I work I wear short jeans. I need to wear shoes for safety and support, so I wear an old pair of running shoes with short socks. And when I ride my bike it's short socks and cycling shoes. (I wear cycling shorts and a jersey, too!) The result is tan legs down to very pale ankles and feet. So when I do wear my sandals it looks pretty much like white socks down there.

I spent most of the morning studying. Sunday we'll look at two words, makrothumia and hupomonae, which James uses repeatedly in 5:7-11. This is one of those cases where so much more shows up, so much valuable and applicable truth appears if you look at the Greek. (This passage was made especially for moms!)
There's a reason a sovereign God chose Greek to be the lingua franca of the world when he inspired the authors of the NT.

"Men play the game; women know the score." - Roger Woddis