A La Carte (4/25)

Wednesday April 25, 2007

Du Jour: Abraham has a good article about telling Bible stories like they really matter. “It matters that Enoch didn’t die, but was taken up by the Lord when he was 365 years old; that Jael hammered a tent peg through the skull of Sisera; that Elijah was fed by ravens next to a brook…”

Media: Here is a thought-provoking article dealing with the media frenzy following the Virginia Tech shootings. [HT:Jollyblogger]

Humor: A great new bank you may want to consider.

Money: Here is an interesting article answering a question I wondered while in Mississippi: why is there such a clear connection between poverty and obesity? “Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots. Looking for something to wash down those chips, he discovered that his dollar bought 875 calories of soda but only 170 calories of orange juice.”