assumption

Every time I read a post like this I think “that person doesn’t mind having his time wasted.”

I often get asked, “why do you blog?” I think this is a fair question, even if there is an underlying assumption that it’s a waste of time. While I’m addressing this to pastors, I think it applies to all of us.

[M]ost neighborhoods want to partner with developers, whether of residential or commercial space. In many cases I’m personally familiar with, neighborhoods just want the opportunity to be treated as a stakeholder at the table in order to provide input about what works best for the neighborhood.

• Barak Obama wrote his own book -- no ghostwriters or co-authors. He did the literary heavy-lifting himself.

It was with plenty of audacity and no small amount of hope that Barak Obama sat down in the early 1990s to write his life story.

They aren’t mine. It’s the Assumption Song or Farmer’s Daughter. There is a video, but I think it works just as well without the music. If you want the video just search on either of those titles.

There was an old farmer who lived on a rock
He sat in the meadow just shaking his

Sean Braisted explains:

Delegates are awarded to states based on their Democratic Presidential performance between ‘96 and ‘04. Since the Presidents weren’t on the ballot in PR, I’m guessing they just looked at overall performance and made an assumption.

Markos wants to know what gives with Puerto Rico getting more delegates than 27 states?

Senator Bob Corker says that reports of the demise of his net worth are greatly exaggerated:

Southern Beale is shining the light on a scam when she caught a kid in a lie about Tuscan Readers Services, where people try to sell magazine subscriptions door-to-door. She’s written about this before.

I wrote about my issue with solicitors from Tuscan Reader Services last August:

I hate these college kids who come to the door and tell you they’re raising money for a (fill in the sport) team trip to (fill in the foreign country).