Boyce College student Alex Medina has just been featured at NYTimes.com for winning the New York Times Jeremy Lin design competition. The contest sought to find a “graphic treatment that is both tasteful and revolutionary, like Lin himself.” Alex’s winning design is pictured at right. You Lin fans need to click on the picture, visit Alex’s site, and purchase a t-shirt. The Times feature also explains Alex’s recent conversion to the Knicks from the Heat: “I like to say I don’t follow corporations, I follow players.” Alex is Linsane in the membrane, if you know what I mean. Read the rest of the New York Times feature here. Order the…
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Albert Mohler Weighs-in on Limbaugh Apology
I appreciate Albert Mohler’s remarks today about the Limbaugh controversy. Mohler says that Limbaugh’s apology was inadequate and that there are some lessons here for Christians: Words are a symbolic representation of character. Out of a man’s heart comes his words. And that’s where Mr. Limbaugh finds himself in trouble… Christians have to be very careful—to be reminded at all times that we are judged not only by our arguments but by the very words and phrases…that we deploy in making these arguments. As a formidable public figure, Mr. Limbaugh can fend for himself. I for one would wish that he had not even in his apology suggested that in…
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Keep Calm and Carry On
I was introduced to the slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On” by Joe Scarborough, who began using this as his Twitter image after Alabama lost to LSU last November. Since it was red and white, I thought it was a Bama thing. The short documentary above tells the real story, and I like it better. Very well done. (HT: Abraham Piper)
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Rush Limbaugh’s On-Air Apology
Some of you may be wondering why I’ve been paying attention to this whole Rush Limbaugh dust-up. If you have been reading my blog for any amount of time, then you no doubt know why. I believe it is an urgent priority to sound the alarm about President Obama’s HHS mandate.
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Mystery Girl’s Entire Family Killed by Tornado
Most of us in Louisville heard the news yesterday about a 2-year old little girl who was found alone in the middle of a field after yesterday’s deadly tornadoes. No one knew who she was or where her family was until today, and it’s not good news. Here’s the report:
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Close Call with a Tornado
My good friend and former colleague Lawrence Smith had a close call with a tornado yesterday. He’s a reporter for our local Fox affiliate, and he and his camera man caught on video their near miss with one of the many tornados that strafed Southern Indiana on Friday. Chances are that you have already seen the raw footage (see above) because every news outlet in the country has been running it this evening. It is terrifying. Lawrence’s report on the evening news is below. I am grateful that you are okay, brother Lawrence. Great reporting!
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Google+ Has Some Minuses
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the progress of Google+ since the big roll-out last year. The bottom line is that it’s not doing very well. Google likes to boast that they’ve had 90 million users sign-up since its launch last June—which at first blush sounds really impressive. But it turns out that people are simply signing-up for the service and then spending little to no time on it. The crucial stat is not how many users there are but how much time users spend on the network. When you look at that stat, it paints a pretty grim picture for Google+.
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Do You Have $3.5 Million in Your Attic?
I was an avid comic book collector as a kid. I had a notion that the rags I was collecting might someday be worth something, so I stored them all in little plastic bags. I don’t know what they’re worth today, but I’m sure that it’s far less than I was hoping when I was a kid. But that wasn’t the case for Michael Rorrer who recently found 345 comic books neatly stacked in a basement closet as he cleaned out his great-aunt’s Virginia home after her death. He didn’t know that they were collector’s items and sat on them for a long time. He mentioned something about them to…
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A Summer Youth Camp Like No Other
Boyce College and Southern Seminary will be hosting a youth camp this summer that is unlike anything you have seen before. It is called “D3: Leadership, Worldview, Missions.” Here’s a brief description:
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Pat Buchanan Explains His Ouster from MSNBC
The bottom line is this. Buchanan wrote a book, and liberal groups accused him of racism. The president of MSNBC subsequently said that he didn’t think Buchanan’s book “should be part of the national dialogue, much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC.” So they cut him loose. Read the rest here.