Random

✽ "The recession and lack of adequate donor support have led to the cancellation this year of the popular Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service, organizers said Thursday." Or it could be that the giant pageant doesn't connect as well with people anymore. ~ link

✽ When did the graduate program at Moody Bible Institute become Moody Theological Seminary? ~ link

✽ First Covenant Church Las Vegas ~ link

✽ 25 years ago this month Coca-Cola introduced New Coke. I am certain that somebody, somewhere, will be celebrating. ~ link (via)

✽ If it were not Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking I'd guess that it was an April Fools joke. He announced "a new program where inmates have to pedal on exercise bicycles to watch television." ~ link

✽ My understanding is that they built those houses fully aware that they were on the projected pathway of the freeway. Why they built there and why the city let them do it -- I don't know. But now they want to stop the freeway. ~ link

✽ We can add up to 10 stand-alone pages on our blogger blogs. ~ link

✽ Apparently, you can buy beer in Arizona starting at 6 a.m. each day -- except Sundays. On Sundays you have to wait until 10 a.m. I suppose lawmakers were at one time worried about people showing up to mass sloshed. All of that is about to change. ~ link

✽ I guess it survived that little mishap at the end of the movie. Ferris Bueller's favorite "Ferrari" (a replica) is on the auction block -- estimated value: $67,000. ~ link