In Our World

It seems that everywhere people are talking about how bad things are these days. I'm not saying that I disagree, but generally I'm not quite ready to take Lemony Snicket's attitude either. So today I read another story about the airline industry. In case you didn't know it,…

The Panthers cut 14 yesterday. Understandable. They still have 4 to go by today's deadline, but I can't understand why they cut Rod Rutherford, who played as a 4th string QB during the preseason. While Rutherford only had a few snaps during these four games, he made several…

Some more great reporting from the Charlotte Observer. Admittedly, it may be less a production of the newswriting staff than the technical folks who forgot to remove the "hedline goes here" fluff before publishing, but it's still amusing….

"If a person is selected to a team like this, it shouldn't even be a question in your mind….It should be an honor to accept. If you grew up in the USA, you need to think of all the things the USA did for you — how it…

It's official. The IPO of the millenium is done. The strange thing is that no one quite seems to agree on the results. At least one publication thinks that the IPO was a failure, yet in the same article, they mention that the company made around $1.67 billion…

So our fourth-grader comes home with a brochure about insurance. I recognize that we don't live in the best part of town. I understand that a lot of the students in that school may not have insurance of any kind, and for that I can see the usefulness…

I find it interesting how certain events can repeat year after year (or even more frequently), and yet people still attend in droves. It's not so much the people who visit for the first time that have me puzzled – it's those who go time after time after…

Watching the Panthers game last night, we saw some of the new Miller commercials. The commercials appear to specialize in honesty. The problem is, the honesty is so hard to find that you might miss it. First, the commercial talks about taste preferences, and then moves to taste…

New research has surfaced that sheds some doubt on particular quotes from the Quran. I don't know enough about any language to offer insight into the interpretation, so I'll leave that to someone else and I'll just look at the conclusions in this particular article. Other information, as…

It's not enough that our government wants to mess with the school system, imposing a complicated set of calculations that don't really seem to help all that much. North Carolina also wants to get into the act, by making sure that school doesn't start prior to a particular…