In response to Mexico’s plan (with help from Radio Shack)  to beat the US soccer team? Read more

It looks as though the “stimulus” bill will be sailing through Congress and onto President Obama’s desk.  Is that term truth in advertising when it is really a debt increase package? Anyway, this article by Jim Manzi is one of the many good pieces out there showing the faults of this bill and the thinking behind it. It should be noted how a large piece of the money won’t be spent for several years. Even the largest single-year chunk doesn’t flow out till next year.... Read more

Garret Keizer, over at Religion Dispatches, has written my new favorite review of Marilynne Robinson’s Home–I like it better than my own review! Take this paragraph for an example: Perhaps it is Robinson’s profoundly Calvinist sense of the all-sufficiency of Grace, the ultimate irrelevancy of anything we might call merit, that permits her to pull off what amounts to a great artistic miracle: a story unabashedly “about” salvation in which no one “gets saved.” There is nothing in this novel... Read more

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76 – Yahoo! News. Read more

So what do you make of this move by President Obama? Read more

Here’s a great little write-up of Blagojevich on The View today. Read more

Disturbing/Discouraging/Inane Video Game Quote #1: “I like to blow people’s heads off, so, well, it never got old for me.” via MTV Multiplayer » Bethesda Reacts To Three Major ‘Fallout 3′ Criticisms. Read more

BTW, this could be a spoiler if you haven’t seen last season’s finale. Anyone watching Lost this season? In my household we’ve pretty much been taken in yet again. Since I’ve been designated the CAPC Christ-Figure-Watchman, I need to say… Christ-Figure Alert: John Locke will Rise Again. Read more