At least Bill Gates is trying to make up for this terrible product via philanthropy. He’s going to have to give A LOT of money to offset all the pain and suffering IE (at least IE6 and prior) has caused web developers over the years.

I know we are in Florida and all and admittedly there are quite a few more bugs down here than in New Mexico but should there really be a swarm of (and by swarm, I mean two dozen or so) gnats flying around my table at Starbucks? Kind of gross but it’s only at this one and gnot the oth-ers I have been at. If nothing else, I guess it’s extra protein and gives me a chance to hone my crazy fast reflexes.

I have a very hard time feeling sorry for someone who took out 9 negative amortization loans in a failed attempt to capitalize on rising home prices. How is it that stupidity and gambling have recently become synonymous with investing?

Trying to find a house from 2000 miles away is NOT easy. Even with the internet, an incredibly gracious mother-in-law and a fabulous (repeat FABULOUS) realtor (thanks for all your help Mike!), it is still proving to be quite difficult. Factor in proximity to elementary school, enough room for 3 (soon to be 4 kiddos) and safety of neighborhood and the equation gets increasingly complicated. Como se dice en Espanol “I’m ready to quit looking and live in a van down by the river (or bay)?”

That men exalting themselves in ministry makes me want to vomit? Yuck. If you have any good remedies / books / advice / etc to share please do.

Maybe it’s time we started listening to people like Ron Paul and other true fiscal conservatives because this is astoundingly not good!

Which kinda sucks right now considering I’m supposed to be knocking out a new blog design for DW Turner. I think I’m going to retire for a bit and enjoy a Guinness. Perhaps that will help. Too bad they don’t make some sort of creativity related Ex-lax for times like these.

If you’re not yet convinced of the debacle that is the sub-prime mortgage crisis look no further than Thornburg Mortgage which lost over 60% of its share value during intra day trading and has lost over 2/3 of its value in the last five days. Ouch.

I commented on how lame I thought this was in December, but with it appearing on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal this morning, I can’t help but touch on it again. Sooooo….

Question.

Am I the only one not drinking the kool-aid? Does anyone else (especially any fellow Christians) see anything wrong with this approach? It’s littered with deadly moralization, dozens of causal fallacies and reeks of shameless self promotion. (Wow, I think I just inadvertently summed up American Evangelicalism. Good job, Brandon. By the way, I do like referring to myself in the third person from time to time.)

Anyway, my favorite line from the newspaper article is “We don’t think the Internet was created for pornography. The pornographers have intruded and used it for evil. Skip wants to reclaim the Internet.” HAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, because your only two choices on the Internet are porn and this guy named Skip.

Unintentionally hilarious.

Oh, yeah, and because I forgot that external influences are what corrupt and defile me. Guess I had better stop writing and add a line to my “do’s and dont’s” list. Or…..

I could just read this.

(Hint, hint, maybe some of you “anti-secular,” “anti-culture” mega church pastors should read it too. Might help straighten your wacked theology out just a smidge. Actually, come to think of it, you shouldn’t “maybe” read it, you should most seriously and most definitely read it. It’s just a click away and it might help change your life.)

When will we realize as a church that this approach is so overly tired, so contrived and so just-plain-dumb? Please? Anyone?

It is times like this that I find all the more comfort in biblically accurate, God-centered, Christ-exalting theology from which words such as these are penned:

“Christ died and rose again to forgive the treason of our souls, which have turned from savoring God to savoring self. In the cross of Christ, God rescues us from the house of mirrors and leads us out to the mountains and canyons of his majesty. Nothing satisfies us – or magnifies him – more.”

Taken from here, although it was originally published in the Dallas Morning News.

…a weaker dollar! Ben Bernake, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! To paraphrase a quote from Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, “money is far too important of a matter to leave in the hands of Central Bankers.” Amen to that. Bernake, stop artificially propping the economy up by printing more money and let the market work itself out. Seriously, unbelievable.