RichTatum

From the page: "John McCain's vice presidential pick Sarah Palin has a Pentecostal background, but reporters seem to be struggling to define her faith."

Get the full text of Fowler's civil complaints against Zondervan and Thomas Nelson. Instructive.

Good analysis of the case brought by Fowler and its lack of grounding.

A review and links to an interactive (Windows) program to acquaint you with Jerusalem. Fun!

"ReviewJournal.com: Four-month trial ends with no convictions"

Apparently, the IRS doesn't have a law regarding how to claim income on circulating gold and silver coins (I didn't even know there were gold coins in circulation! Though I have seen the occasional silver dime show up). It seems you can report the income based on the face value of the valuable coins, even though their collector's value could be much higher. The Government lost 160 verdicts.

Amazing.

Remember the Monty Hall game show where you got to choose one of three curtains, and behind one curtain was a car, but the other two were goats? When you've made your first choice, the game-master reveals one of the other two curtains, which always contains a goat. You are given the option to switch your pick if you want. The counter-intuitive strategy to have a better chance to win this game is to change your first pick to the other unrevealed curtain. Intuitively, you feel you still have a 50/50 chance by sticking with your original choice, but in reality your odds have improved to a 66% chance of winning the car if you switched. I played the game twenty times both ways (switching, vs. not switching). Switching saw me winning 60%. Not switching saw me winning only 35% of the time. That's with a fairly low sample.

Fun!

Interesting site to explore, looks like they select the shows for commentary I enjoy watching: Smallville, Stargate, Roswell, Veronica Mars, etc.