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Elsewhere: From death’s door back to the bigs
Adam Pettyjohn, who pitched for the AAA Louisville Bats this past season, was a late season call-up for the Cincinnati Reds. By making it back to the big leagues, the left-hander completed a seven-year journey that is frankly pretty hard to believe. After a promising debut that included striking out Ken Griffey Jr. in 2001, […]
Elsewhere: Products Placed
Apparently the next frontier for product placement is lyrics in popular songs. The Wired Blog has an interesting story on the practice of recruiting musicians to name-drop products in their songs here.
The prayer Jesus never asked you to pray
Chances are if you’ve ever been to a youth group or Christian camp function you’ve heard someone lead a group of sniffling teenagers at an altar in “the prayer.” Youth evangelist Eastman Curtis, before his fall from grace, used to call the repeat-after-me moment where hundreds of young adults said “the prayer” the most important […]
Elsewhere: Factcheck.org is our friend
For those of you keeping track at home, the McCain campaign is comfortably in the lead this silly season in the area of deceit. According to Farhad Monjoo’s count in this Slate piece, McCain’s camp has misled the public 22 times to Obama’s 12. That the number of lies piling up from both sides resembles […]
Elsewhere: Diet and the divine
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who thinks churches, particularly the one I am attending right now, need to rethink the whole Wal-Mart fried chicken and Krispy Kream donut food options at luncheons and other events. http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-09-06-organic-churches_N.htm
Elsewhere: Pit bulls and babysitting
Pitbulls, babysitting and grapefruit. This place in Florida has a little bit of everything. (Hat tip: Boing Boing)
Elsewhere: Vince Young ‘hurting inside and out’
Since he graduated from Texas national champion to NFL starting quarterback, I’ve been a Vince Young nay-sayer, claiming more than once that the national sports media gave him more credit than he deserved. While I’d agree that stats aren’t everything, I simply didn’t get how a guy with such terrible stats could be praised so […]
Elsewhere: Apple didn’t invent the iPod
The Wired Blog has an interesting post today about an iPod-like concept developed by British inventor Kane Kramer nearly 30 years ago. It provides an interesting perspective on Apple’s announcement of the latest in iPod technology at the “Let’s Rock” event.