The press does not get PPM info till 3pm today (sniff sniff) thanks to all the programmers who have been calling me with numbers. Shit, I feel like I'm waiting for my own station numbers and I have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

What a difference a stock market crash makes. According to a recent poll of community banks, in October, 66% did not intend to participate in the US Treasury's Capital Purchase Program. Like San Antonio, Texas-based Frost Bank, most community banks thought that they'd tell the U.S. government to kee...

Adam Bender enjoys football, baseball, soccer, and wrestling--typical hobbies for an eight year old boy.  But Adam is anything but typical.  He plays all of these sports with just one leg.  He was born with a medical condition which cost him his leg and nearly cost him his life.  Watch this vide...

The Sarah Connor Chronicles, FOX, Airs Monday 8/7c Episode: “Self Made Man” (Season 2, Episode 11) Synopsis: On a generally slow night in the Connor family, Cameron (Summer Glau) heads off to the library to conduct some after-hours research. There, she discovers a picture from the 1920s that has...

Merry Christmas from the Left Red White and Impeach December 2, 2008 Apparently the left dos not rest for the holidays. For those of us who feel passionately about the right to free speech, we also understand that it comes with responsibilities. Memo: I’d love to see the elite media’s reaction i...

Although the initial release of Microsoft Windows Vista caused headaches for some, I've found that Service Pack 1 has made life much more enjoyable from a computing perspective. That's why I have high hopes for SP2, not to mention Windows 7. We'll have to wait for to-be-determined date to see Window...

Someday I'd like to retire. If I had risen to the position of President of the United States, that someday would be the day the next guy is sworn into my office. But I'm not a politician. Politicians love the power they get, especially when they earn millions in the private sector. Indeed, any perso...

Misha Beverly was recently baptized at our Lincoln Park location. She is a newcomer to Chicago and to New Life. A Columbia Chronicle reporter recently caught her in the act--in the act of working hard and excelling in fashion design......

In the early seventies, I seem to recall, the hapless Bruno Bettelheim  suggested that the increasing prevalence of dishwashers and similar labour-saving devices in households was likely to reduce family cohesion as people spent less time together doing what needed to be done. A few more obser...

I told you so, again. A story from NPR (via WhiteCoat) validates what medical blogs have been discussing over the past year: Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there's an unintended consequence: A sudden demand for pr...