joel's thoughts

It is not my goal to make my children’s lives easy.  To be sure, neither is it my purpose to make their lives difficult.  Rather, it is my goal and purpose to train them and shape them and prepare them for the lives they will be leading when they are no longer under my wing.  […]

Yeah, so I still exist.  I’ve been getting too caught up lately in political analysis, I must say.  I’m much more fascinated by what people say about the candidates than by what they say themselves, oddly enough.  Anyway, I’ve also recently started poking around a bit with Twitter, believe it or not, and I’m contemplating […]

Heidi pointed out these songs a couple of days ago, and they’ve been haunting me (in a good way) ever since. Two completely different styles, both full of incredible energy and emotion. See what you think… I Can Hear the Rhythm by Misty Edwards The More I Seek You sung by Kari Jobe

Jonathan Walton over at Religion Dispatches Blog turns a critical eye to seminaries and churches, and how more and more they seem to inhabit completely different worlds.  Good thoughts, and challenging.  At first glance it may not seem relevant to the everyday layperson, but it seems to me we could all stand to be (and […]

Just a little update going on here, nothing to be alarmed about. Carry on…

Looking forward to your rebate check from Uncle Sam? How about a little perspective… In a few months, every American is going to be getting $300-$600 rebate check to help “spur” on the economy. This is separate from your tax refund, and will cost the U.S. about $170 Billion. Separately, did you know that the […]

I usually try to think of something witty or insightful or even vaguely amusing or at the very least somewhat relevant when putting up a link that will just send you off somewhere else, but this time there’s nothing to say. Watch the first video for some stats that will make your eyes pop and […]

So Edwards got a slightly higher percentage of the vote than Hillary, and is therefore widely being given media attention focusing on his second place showing over Hillary’s third (and what that means for their respective campaigns). End of story for Iowa, except… In a mini-replay of the popular-vote-vs.-electoral-vote difference, this page seems to indicate […]

I’m thinking a Huckabee-McCain ticket would be a pretty powerful thing. Huck carries the conservatives who are concerned with a few of Mac’s social positions, and Mac carries enough foreign policy cred for both of them. It would seem they differ on the current administration’s Iraq policies, but in the heat of political battle that […]

So I’ve now done a garbage disposal replacement three times now, and this last one was the easiest by far because of a tip I stumbled across on the web. Usually the most difficult and/or annoying thing about getting the old one out and the new one in is the sheer weight of the thing. […]