Get up and move a little

The average adult burns 2650 calories walking and standing for eight hours. That same person will only burn 1300 calories sitting at a desk [kind of like you're doing right now].

Fatherless America

Tonight, about 40 percent of American children will go to sleep in homes in which their fathers do not live. Before they reach the age of eighteen, more than half of our nation's children are likely to spend at least a significant portion of their childhood living apart from their fathers. Never before in this country have so many children been voluntarily abandoned by their fathers. Never before have so many children grown up without knowing what it means to have a father.

Fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation. It is the leading cause of declining child well-being in our society. It is also the engine driving our most urgent social problems, from crime to adolescent pregnancy to child sexual abuse to domestic violence against women.

- David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

Book List [what I've been reading these days] ...

YOU ARE WHAT YOUR MIND EATS ...

"World Hunger Stinks"

You might say the solution to world hunger is right under our noses. According to wwwglobalissues.org it would cost about $13 billion annually to satisfy the world's basic sanitation and food requirements. Where can we free up that kind of cash? ... Perfume. That's right, the world's hungry could be fed for about what Americans and Europeans spend on perfume each year. I say, chuck the Chanel and feed the children!

-Jeff Yeager, personal finance author and self-proclaimed 'Ultimate Cheapskate'

Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and Massachusetts Bay

This was the original seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - in use from 1629-1692. The indian is quoting the Macedonian man in Paul's vision [Acts 16] with the words "Come over and help us." It is a sad commentary on the state of our Biblical [il]literacy that most Christians today[myself included] couldn't tell you the source of this quote though it was familiar enough in the 17th century to be used on a commercial shipping seal.

Book List [what I've been reading these days] ...

YOU ARE WHAT YOUR MIND EATS ...

Law

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do some thing they want to do.


-Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr.
Adkins v. Children's Hospital, dissenting opinion