The day after…

Did your candidates win? Or lose? I got a taste of both, frankly.
This morning’s post from one of my new favorite blogger/tweeters is Michael Hyatt, the head honcho at Thomas Nelson Publishers. You know, the publishing house that most likely printed your Bible. The organization responsible for Women of Faith and all sorts of related [...]

Bailout from the perspective of a healthy bank

This is pretty interesting reading. An open letter from the President/CEO of BB&T to Members of Congress:
Here are the top 5 points to ponder:

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are the primary cause of the mortgage crisis. These government supported enterprises distorted normal market risk mechanisms. While individual private financial institutions have made serious mistakes, the [...]

A clinic on saying "We’re sorry."

On one of the most prominent racing stages in the world, NASCAR faltered mightily Sunday at the Brickyard 400. Indianapolis Speedway ate tires, forcing competitors to stop every 10 laps under caution for at least right side tires. Even with green flag racing, drivers said they could only run 80% just to get 10 laps [...]

A depressing – but necessary – conversation

A friend alerted me to an alarming online discussion about the crushing national debt and past promises that could very well break the backs of future generations. Heck, maybe in the not so distant future.
Our political system is currently broken and it will take a major public education and engagement effort in order to put [...]

World War II US D-Day invasion tank unearthed in France – Telegraph

I work on the third floor above Garrison Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas and I sometimes tease that the history is so rich that occasionally I hear 100 year old gunfire on the sidewalk below me.
Think, though, what it must be like to find a tank under the street of an old city.
Council workers [...]

Pondering impossibilities

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been pondering impossibilities. A few days ago, I bit — as did much of the blogosphere — on a fairly elaborate hoax.
UPDATE 5/27/2008: Yep, it’s a fake. The artist has added a line to the bottom of his webpage stating “This is fictional work. DHL did [...]

Wouldn’t you like to be a sucker, too?

…after bloggers pointed out holes in Nordenankar’s claim, DHL confirmed to the Telegraph that the artwork was an “entirely fictional project”.
A spokeswoman said they had allowed him to film in their Stockholm warehouse as part of a college project, on the understanding that the work went no further than his art school. The GPS package [...]