Ken

Just out of curiosity, I decided to see what are the current Christian best sellers. I found it interesting that Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis continues to rank among the best selling books. I first tried to read Mere Christianity while a freshman in high school and it made my brain cramp. Only later did I come back to the book and really enjoyed it. Here's a link to it at Family Christian Bookstore

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If you enjoy occasionally peeking into the collective psyche of the world, you might try looking at Google Trends. Google takes in between 400-500 million searches a day. On the top end of the range, that works out to an average of 5,787 searches ... per second! I certainly add a few numbers to the daily search totals myself.Google Trends (www.google.com/trends) is a new section of Google that allows you to see what the hottest search words and phrases are. As Google says, "Hot Trends highlights searches that have sudden surges in popularity." Many times you can tell what is in the news by looking at what gets searched for. Many times you’re just confused!Just out of curiousity, I pulled it up for Friday, January 18. Top search phrase: "yin and yang." Number two: "sheep dash."The 13th Amendment to the Constitution came in at number 14.In a humbling display of…

One of the lesson’s I learned while battling a recent cold ... cable news networks only track three stories at a time and use 12 different anchors to tell you the same thing, but in a slightly different way. And whenever a lead-in proclaims, "Breaking News" ... it’s probably not.