In “olden days”, I’m sure there was great joy in finishing a plowed field or killing and skinning an animal. I’ve been working hard on this for several months and finally Spring Break has delivered one of my great, small joys in life.

Tina scored a B.O.C. a couple weeks ago and it finally came in yesterday. One of the things in the box was a t-shirt that was just Cohen’s size.

As part of teaching research methods, I teach some stats. Most students, and most non-students, don’t understand what stats actually mean. How could they? Before I digress into a rant about critical thinking and our education system, let me explain.


People read that eating bacon every day increases their risk of contracting colon cancer by 12% (an actual report), so they stop eating bacon. What they don’t know is that only two people out of a 100 get the disease, so they have a 98% chance of not getting it to start with. They have a 2% chance that they reduce by 12%. Not very persuasive in the light of day. Plus, who eats bacon every day?


The link below is a short article applying the same type of reasoning to parenting. For example, the author states that parents don’t think twice about putting their kids in a state-of-the-art car seat to drive them to little league football practice. One is far more likely to lead to long-term injury than the other. Guess which.

Keeping Kids Safe From the Wrong Dangers

In South Carolina, we can buy fireworks at Wal-mart. Yeah.

On the way to AL last year, we stopped for hot dogs at The Varsity in Atlanta.

I saw this bumper sticker on the CCU campus.

A day at the beach.

I like it when our coaches and players say nice things to the media about our opponents. It’s been delightful to read some of the quotes from our team. This week I read an interview with Duke’s head football coach, David Cutcliffe, about playing us this weekend. A quote is below and I appreciate his kind words.

“The only problem they’ve got is they don’t have enough footballs,” Cutcliffe said. “Thank goodness they don’t get to play with two balls at one time. …”

Some of these logos are pretty clever.