Random

• GREAT story about two churches, my niece Robyn Bickerton, and her Westmont College roommate who has cancer. ~ link

• IS Target going Costco on us? I'm hoping for samples! ~ link

• JAY PHELAN is now blogging. ~ link

• I DON'T understand French logic. ~ link

• ACCORDING to the Wall Street Journal, there is a built-in "marriage penalty" in both the House and Senate healthcare bills. Reform is necessary but it appears that no one in Washington really has a handle on the process. There are just too many half-baked components in the current proposals. Perhaps the wisest thing would be to consider the work done up to this point as a part of the learning curve and start over. A stitch in time saves nine. ~ link

• MAGICJACK for the cell phone ~ link

• THE kids who hang out at the lake next to our local library should be happy. The Arizona Game & Fish people will be restocking the urban lakes with rainbow trout next week. ~ link

• SOMETIMES we can accomplish a lot more by doing a lot less. But we have to overdo it for awhile to figure out how that works.

• THE Anglican Church in North America, the new Anglican province that brings together disenfranchised conservative Anglican bodies, has a new website. Now, the question is whether they will get past thinking of themselves as victims and be able to move forward in mission. I'm optimistic. ~ link

• "SWEDEN'S status as a country with high quality living standards for its residents has been questioned in a newly published index, which claims it is the most costly country in the world to live in." ~ link

• WOULD you pay $7.02 for a Big Mac? Of course, I probably wouldn't pay $3.58 either. The pricing isn't right for fastfood. ~ link

• FACEBOOK wants to fund computer science PhD students who are doing research in an area applicable to Facebook. No hidden agenda there. ~ link

• CHURCHES that plan to use their buildings to connect with the "unchurched" should make the buildings look more like traditional church facilities, according to a new survey. That was exactly what we discovered in Turlock when we canvased the neighborhood for input prior to designing our building there. ~ link