We Like Easy Causes
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Society | 1 Comment »At Cultivate earlier this week Clint Runge of Archrival marketing made a statement about the ease of causes. He was talking about generational marketing and the differences between Generation X and Generation Y. While general principles and trends may be ...
Share Your Story Now
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Writing | 1 Comment »"Don’t wait for your story to be done before you share it." I came across this quote from Jon Acuff (the guy behind Stuff Christians Like) in a discussion on blogging from the Catalyst Conference. Here's the quote in context: Writing is just ...
Race in the Obama Era
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I came across two interesting stories last week involving race (apparently today is blog about stuff I found last week day). The first is a Newsweek article about a black family that adopted a white girl. It's an interesting story and ...
Barack Obama in Africa
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Politics | 4 Comments »One of the most bizarre and amazing things I saw in Ethiopia was the plethora of Barack Obama T-shirts. The President of the United States was everywhere. This felt so jarring because we weren't in the United States. One member of ...
I Have An Abundance of Caution
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Just for Fun | 1 Comment »Thanks to the flubbed oath on inauguration day, President Barack Obama retook the oath of office yesterday out of "an abundance of caution." That's an awesome phrase. I'm not the only one who thinks so. So we should have a T-shirt: I ...
Enjoying the Inauguration with Twitter
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Technology | No Comments »I watched bits and pieces of the Inauguration today and caught much of Obama's speech on NPR. But I really enjoyed much of the festivities through Twitter and the various reactions, comments and snippets. Apparently I wasn't the only one ...
A New Day in America
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in Politics | 4 Comments »I stayed up last night to watch history. I couldn't stand watching the pundit chatter, so I kept checking in and out. We watched the Clinton/Dole-Kang/Kodos episode of the Simpsons, watched some more returns, and then watched an episode of ...
Historic Tax Rates in the U.S.: Socialist?
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Politics | 10 Comments »There's a lot of debate going around right now about tax policy. I thought it'd help to look at the actual tax rates compared to historic numbers. But let's keep in mind that I took Math for Elementary Education in ...
Why I’m Voting for Barack Obama
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Politics | 43 Comments »In the 2008 presidential election I'm going to be voting for Barack Obama. That's probably not a surprise to people who know me, but I feel the need to explain that position. Caveats I've been contemplating this post for some time. Should ...
Muslim Americans
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, War | 1 Comment »A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Barack Obama isn't a Muslim—but what if he was? Who cares? Sometimes it's nice to be backed up. In this case former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell has my back: "I'm also ...
