Let the Republican Presidential contest begin! With no formally announced candidates entered into next year’s Republican Primary, it’s interesting to calculate the odds of winning for potential entrants. Based on both polling data and common sense, we could narrow down the field of likely winners with relative ease. While I am no prophet nor the son of a prophet, I’ll share my thoughts…
Limiting Your Audience: SBC Pastor’s Conference
You would think that leaders of the first GCR Era Southern Baptist Convention Pastor’s Conference — scheduled to debut in Phoenix this June — would desire to have the biggest possible audience for this annual event. Knowing that the southwestern location would itself limit the number of pastors who could attend, one might assume that the Aspire 2011…
Limiting Your Audience: Janeane Garofalo & Criminal Minds
My wife and I enjoy watching the television program, Criminal Minds. We have followed the exploits of the fictionalized B.A.U. (Behavioral Analysis Unit) from the very first episode, which aired in September 2005. Even though we fit into the key demographic — 18-49 year-olds — we are now beyond that even more coveted sub-group, the 18-35 year-olds. Alas,…
B-ball & Blogging: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!
Let the madness begin! Well, it already has begun. March Madness, otherwise known as the NCAA Basketball Tournament, started earlier today. With some spare time on my hands this morning, much like all the spare time that the leader of the free world President of the United States has in the midst of worldwide crises,…
Vikings’ Peterson: The $10 Million “Slave”
Are you ready for some football? Depending on the actions of a Minnesota court and the N.F.L. owners and players in settling the current labor dispute, there may not be any football this fall to be ready for. And, that would be a sad turn of events. Of course, this dispute between the ultra-rich (owners) and…