2) You can't beat a good dose of Spoon, Rogue Wave, and Voxtrot.
3) Robert Jewett makes some interesting observations about the socio-cultural structure of the Christian community in Rome and the implications of honor-shame rhetoric in Paul's letter to the Romans.
4) Joba Chamberlain is going to be a great starting pitcher.
5) Beware of fundamentalists floating in the blog world.
6) Related to #5, I'm losing count of how many times I've been warned about the supposed bogeymen at YDS who apparently will devour my first born, spit in my Corn flakes, tear out the pages of my Bible, and sacrifice goats during secretive nocturnal feasts honoring Dan Brown and the Green Party.