Fortuitous Bouncing

Well…the Madness is down to 8 teams. Considering all the 1-seeds are alive and the rest of the teams are all 2 or 3 seeds, I would say that rest of the games will be pretty competitive. Poll question below (embedded RSS readers):

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Blogs

1. Are we relevant enough? I’ll touch on something close to this in a post next week.
2. Tony Campolo says he is “the older brother” in the prodigal son story.
3. Young families are less likely to turn to the church for moral values now.
   
4. Along those same lines…Scot McKnight had an interesting post on whether people need to believe in God to be moral.
5. Interesting post on what makes both liberals and conservatives mad at the same time: abortion reduction.
6. A response to the rising popularity of neo-Calvinism. Well played Richard.

News

• Jennifer Aniston broke up with John Mayer over Twitter. I can’t make this stuff up people.
• A man ran 52 marathons in 52 days. I’m still having a hard time believing this one.
• A letter of resignation from an AIG employee because the bonus wasn’t big enough. No clue if this is actually legit (from the NY Times), but this is so so sad.
• Pimpthisbum.com made $50,000 and is helping bums get help.
• Incredible. Hubble’s greatest pictures ever.

From rainy Portland. Have a blessed weekend brothers and sisters.