Various items of interest for this week:

 1. The cost of raising children.

2. Faults with the Clinton and Edward’s housing crisis plans.

3.  Now my wife has a study to defend her impaired memory during pregnancy.

4. I’m starting to move away from corn and toward switchgrass in the great ethanol debate.

5. Bill Belickick is the greatest coach I have ever watched.

6. Fun with words (or comicus vocabularium).

7. Fun with the library of congress.

8. Good music from Mars Hill – Seattle.

Well, that’s all I’ve got.  Have a great week.

1. This American Life had a great program on Americans’ dealing with Islam. It was a repeat, but well worth listening to.

2. A great sermon on birth control by Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill – Seattle.

3. The last of the great explorers passes away.

4. Ben Witherington posted some thoughts on the beast.

…and on a related note…some old school DeGarmo and Key.

5. This is an old link, but it was new to me this week…Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Street Gangs (But Didn’t Know Whom to Ask).

6. American Idol starts this week…maybe this will be the year I watch?

7. Who said the war in Iraq didn’t have a snowball’s chance…?

8. Wired Jesus – a new blog I’ve been checking out.

9. The coolest, freakiest picture I’ve ever seen.

Kansas opens up the conference schedule at Nebraska today. Go Jayhawks!!!