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Awe­some com­ment at the end (although I do not know if it is true or not): “Do note that death insur­ance did­n’t sell well until it was giv­en the less accu­rate but more affa­ble name, life insur­ance.”

Road Fare>Congestion Pric­ing?

Con­ges­tion pric­ing sounds like some­thing to avoid since nei­ther term is some­thing you want. Eric Jaffe held a con­test for replace­ment terms. Decon­ges­tion pric­ing is one pos­si­bil­i­ty since it at least h…

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This is the best sum­ma­ry of the issue I’ve seen yet.

Pas­tor Dis­in­vit­ed from Giv­ing Inau­gur­al Prayer Because of Ser­mon on Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty

The mes­sage of reli­gious intol­er­ance being deliv­ered by Pres­i­dent Oba­ma, his staff, and many of his sup­port­ers is unmis­tak­able: If you do not affirm homo­sex­u­al­i­ty then you can­not be fair-mind­ed. The m…

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The sec­ond quote is the one to focus on. If you are squea­mish, be cau­tious when order­ing cal­i­mari. For the record, I don’t think this would affect my will­ing­ness to eat arti­fi­cial cal­i­mari.

Fred Armisen hosts This Amer­i­can Life as Ira Glass

This week’s episode of This Amer­i­can Life is about dop­pel­gangers, so they decid­ed to have SNL’s Fred Armisen come on the show and

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Then my kids will receive excel­lent grades. 🙂

Don’t pay for all of your kids’ col­lege edu­ca­tion

…a new study…found that the more mon­ey (in total and as a share of total col­lege costs) that par­ents pro­vide for high­er edu­ca­tion, the low­er the grades their chil­dren earn. The find­ings — par­tic­u­lar­ly…

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Rat — the voice of a gen­er­a­tion.

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis, Jan­u­ary 17, 2013 Via @GoComics

At its heart, Pearls Before Swine is the com­ic strip tale of two friends: an arro­gant Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-wit­ted Pig who does­n’t know any bet­ter. Togeth­er, this pair offers caust…

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This is sol­id. Which, you know, is what you ought to expect from D.A. Car­son.

You Asked: How Do We Know if God Is Dis­ci­plin­ing Us?

Easy, for­mu­la­ic answers to ques­tions of suf­fer­ing are invari­ably reduc­tion­is­tic — and they make bad the­ol­o­gy, too.Easy, for­mu­la­ic answers to ques­tions of suf­fer­ing are invari­ably reduc­tion­is­tic — and …

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This is actu­al­ly help­ful to me.

Pen­ny Arcade — Sportz

Print Added. Woo! You’ve just added the print below to your cart. What Next? Go to Check­out Browse the Store · First · Pre­vi­ous · News · Next · New · Share on Twit­ter · Share on Face­book · Sub­scribe t…

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I think I will file this one under “Com­mon-sense obser­va­tion by a judge.” In relat­ed news, see http://i.imgur.com/RtLy8.jpg

Amid Flu Shot Debate, Court Says Veg­an­ism Could Qual­i­fy as Reli­gious Belief: Court refus­es to dis­miss hos­pi­tal work­er’s reli­gious dis­crim­i­na­tion case after she was fired for refus­ing a flu shot.

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

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Heh.

MAINLINE/REFORMED-FROM-BIRTH CONGREGANT ATTENDS A PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL FOR THE FIRST TIME

MAINLINE/REFORMED-FROM-BIRTH CONGREGANT ATTENDS A PENTECOSTAL REVIVAL FOR THE FIRST TIME

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The eco­nom­ic deba­cle seems very sim­ple at one lev­el — but it seems that I am reg­u­lar­ly learn­ing new facts that illus­trate just how com­plex it all was.

David Hen­der­son reviews the new Alan Blind­er book

The review is here, here is one inter­est­ing para­graph: Mr. Blind­er omits a cru­cial fact about Lehman, one that, by itself, explains why the huge drop in val­ue of Lehman’s mort­gage-backed secu­ri­ties le…