I usually have pretty good moments of clarity, sometimes too clear for the comfort of those around me.
But Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have nearly convinced me that I am crazy. My world must be one seriously whacked place to everyone else, because it’s a world where if you’ve incompetently [...]
Reporting on Ohio government spending in the form of employee overtime, Government Bytes also mentioned a web site that shows the progress of spending transparency legislation in each state. Show Me The Spending has a cool map where you can mouse over each state and see what action has been taken.
Ohio happens to have legislation [...]
With the Lutheran Carnival on break for an undetermined length of time, I looked for a new way to continue the exchange between bloggers and expose them to new audiences. I came up with this idea, a new kind of “cross-posting” (all puns intended). Instead of someone bringing a whole bunch of post links together [...]
I arrived early at Lutheran Church of Prayer in Bakersfield. I caught Pastor Robert. W. Lutjens preparing pre-service announcements on PowerPoint slides. When the time came for church, the projector was turned off, and the screen was rolled up. He was gracious enough to allow some conversation time.
LCOP has TLH in its pews, but most [...]
For my day off I drove down to Los Angeles and Hollywood.
My first stop was the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood. I got there right at opening and got really good service. The waitress informed me that the Los Angeles location was temporarily shut down; the landlord had raised the rent, and the HRC [...]
