Posted on April 5, 2007 by thestateofblog
“Anybody who has traveled through a grocery checkout knows that there’s an entire media industry that revolves around celebrity love lives-who’s hooking up, breaking up, doing this, doing that, getting hitched, getting ditched, and denying this, apologizing for that. Sure, it’s fun to speculate about what Hollywood love lives must really be like, but now [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2007 by thestateofblog
This is the world the 10-year NBA veteran is trying to change with his $15 shoes — a world where parents are pressured to shell out money for expensive sneakers while struggling to pay rent and buy groceries; a world where kids get robbed, shot and strangled over the latest styles. (In January, 10 Detroit [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2007 by thestateofblog
The new rage for rich liberals to worry about is the Global Warming “crisis.” (It was briefly interrupted by a cat food “scare.”) While it makes perfect sense to me that the earth’s atmosphere cannot be pounded with carbon-dioxide, exhaust and pollutants forever, I (J) get skeptical–or better yet cynical–about things like this. [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2007 by thestateofblog
“Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
James 1: 2-4.
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