I saw this over at Pete Marasmitch and thought I would have some fun with it for some of our Chicago players. The anagram bot must have a brain. Some of these are uncanny. Derrick Rose= Kid Sorcerer Andres Nocioni= Senior and icon Larry Hughes= Harsher, ugly Luol Deng= Dull gone Derrek Lee= Elder reek [...]

No sooner then I get done reading the rest of the comments on this post, this story comes across the wire from the Chicago Tribune: A 5-year-old girl was mauled in a pit-bull attack this morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said. The child “suffered severe lacerations [...]

Do we really need to hear any more stories like this? Is it not evident these dogs should not be kept as pets? From the AP: MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two pit bull dogs ripped off a man’s left hand and badly mauled his right arm before other people were able to beat the dogs away. [...]

A wonderful article by Mark Galli also contains this passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, [...]

“Classic characters presented in a new and exciting way”, says the blurb on the website. Check out their new look here. That would take some getting used to. If I was 8 and still reading those comics…

Apparently some of you have been trying to post comments and they have not been posting. Blogger is making some huge, overdue changes and there are evidently some quirks. It’s odd because my last post was my 500th and that’s when my former template quit cooperating. So I decided to switch rather than fight and [...]