adidas Men's Copa Mundial FG - Firm Ground - Soccer ShoesSource: www.shopadidas.comShop for adidas Copa Mundial FG Shoes. The most popular football shoe of the past 20 years, and for good reason. Its perfect fit and comfort have made it the top choice of football players at all levels.    Just got my new Copa Mundials....think I will sleep in them tonight. :)    

Os Guinness on Science, Faith and the Culture WarSource: www.youtube.comThe conversation continues at http://www.biologos.org/... In this brief video conversation, Os Guinness, author and founder of the Trinity Forum, suggests that the religious right might have largely created the current culture war that has science and faith as its core antagonists.    Interesting remarks by Os Guinness on science, faith, and the Religious Right.    

Sunny Day Real Estate to record new album in May | Ear CandySource: www.earcandybeat.comThis just in from the awesome news department: Sunny Day Real Estate is entering the recording studio in May to record a new album    Sweet!    

Students Protest University Cutbacks, Reality - Business - The AtlanticSource: www.theatlantic.comThe Atlantic covers breaking news, analysis, opinion around the intersection of Washington and Wall Street, plus coverage of key industries on the official site of the Atlantic Magazine.    Indeed!    

Want to be a Screenwriter? Get out of LA - Culture - The AtlanticSource: www.theatlantic.comThe Atlantic covers breaking news, analysis, opinion around popular culture on the official site of the Atlantic Magazine.    Fascinating interview with Joe Eszterhas.    

Are We in a Narcissism Epidemic? - Newsweek.comSource: www.newsweek.comA new book says we're in a narcissism epidemic. Why you're not so special.    Excellent article.    

goodwillhinton: @SuSiempre Just saw your tweet...family/friends in Chile appear to be ok. #Chile #Earthquake #Tsunami

goodwillhinton: Wonders at what point the media should take some responsibility for the heightened political rhetoric that panders to extremes.

Kevin LawsonSource: www.KevinLawson.com    loving Kevin Lawson's new CD. If you don't have it yet, what are you waiting for?    

Top 50 players of the 2010 World Cup - ESPN SoccernetSource: soccernet.espn.go.comESPN.com ranks the top 50 players of the 2010 World Cup.    Let the countdown to the 2010 World Cup begin!    

Op-Ed Columnist - Learning From the Sin of Sodom - NYTimes.comSource: www.nytimes.comA growing number of conservative Christians are acknowledging that to be “pro-life” must mean more than opposing abortion.    Excellent article by Nicolas Kristof.    

RealClearPolitics - The Case for High-Deductible Health InsuranceSource: www.realclearpolitics.comIf President Obama's health care summit showed anything it is that when it comes to controlling health care costs there is bipartisan agreement in favor of looking for the easy solution. Both sides dragged ...    "No one is suggesting that people shouldn't have insurance. But insurance
is ultimately meant to spread the risk of catastrophic events, not to
simply prepay your health care. Your homeowners insurance covers you if
your house burns down. It doesn't pay to mow your lawn or paint the
fence."    

Man or Astro-man? Reboots for 21st Century | Underwire | Wired.comSource: www.wired.comThe sonic space cadets in Man or Astro-man? mashed surf, sci-fi, punk, samples and Tesla coils into a jagged rock juggernaut, touring nonstop in the '90s    One of the best things to ever come out of Auburn, AL...    

Eminent Domain as Central Planning by Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Winter 2010Source: www.city-journal.orgWielding creative definitions of blight, New York runs roughshod over property rights and uproots viable neighborhoods. Winter 2010

What’s Happened to Cultural Discourse? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.comSource: opinionator.blogs.ny...The discrepancies between what the public wants and what it gets.    Fantastic exchange with David Brooks and Dick Cavett. (HT: Makoto Fujimura)    

On Saying One Thing and Meaning Another | The American SceneSource: theamericanscene.comIn a welcome return to blogging, Jay Rosen turns his attention to the recent New York Times article on the Tea Party phenomenon, lauding reporter David Barstow’s fine work, but critiquing one paragraph.    My friend Conor Friedersdorf continues to be consistent insightful...

"Foremost is that extreme words like tyranny are almost always useless if
the goal is figuring out what on earth someone actually thinks. Five
people might tell you that their biggest worry about Barack Obama is his
tendencies toward tyranny. Buzz words like this tend to spread. On
further questioning, you’ll find one guy means he’s upset that the
president might seek a tax hike, while another is literally worried that
he’s building secret prisons to house American patriots. The former
invocation of tyranny is by far more common, and it doesn’t strike the
people who use it as imprecise because they marinate in a political
culture of hyper-adversarial cable news, Barnes and Noble bestsellers
with hyperbolic titles, and talk radio hosts who cast the political
battles between American conservatives and liberals as an epic battle
between liberty and tyranny. As the volume of political rhetoric gets
turned up, folks eventually lose perspective, and having listened to
their very loud stereo for hours, it doesn’t occur to them that on
talking to folks outside the room they seem to be shouting. Pin these
folks down on their actual beliefs, concerns or objections, however, and
often as not they are basically reasonable people whose opinions are no
more or less grounded in fact than anyone else."    

Auto-Tune the News #10: Turtles.Source: www.youtube.commp3: http://amiestreet.com/music/auto-tune-the-news/auto-tune-the-news-number-10/ Original song, Aquarium Girl, by Kapluckus--album available here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/kapluckus/id287197642    Ah yeah shawty!!! More brilliance from Michael Gregory and Sarah Gregory of The Gregory Brothers    

Gringo NightmareSource: gringonightmare.comThe Eric Volz Case: Documented: In today's fast-paced world, citizen advocacy is often hindered in supporting a particular case because the facts and primary documents aren't organized and readily accessible in one place.    Pre-order your copy of this new book by my friend Eric Volz, who was wrongly accused and convicted of rape and murder in Nicaragua and is now free and still fighting for justice.    

Howard Kurtz - Scientology Church hires reporters to investigate newspaper - washingtonpost.comSource: www.washingtonpost.comAfter decades of digging into the Church of Scientology, reporters and editors at the St. Petersburg Times are accustomed to being denounced by its leaders.    Can we just all agree to start referring to the Church of Scientology as "MindHead" from now on?    

Common Grounds Online | Learning & Living The Christian StorySource: bit.lyWelcome to Common Grounds Online. Readers of Common Grounds have suggested a website to continue the explorations they began in the book. In keeping with the interactions of Professor MacGregor, Brad, Lauren and Jarrod, the theme of this site is ‘learning and living the Christian story.’    Another SiteBrew client site has gone live: Common Grounds Online (http://bit.ly/ai0SRn). Check it out!