We were originally introduced to Joel Peigh by Tiffany about a year ago - we were looking for a good contractor for our front porch. He came highly recommended not only because he is a high quality craftsman, but also because he is an honest, hard-working, high quality man. After finishing construction on our front porch (ahead of schedule and under budget) we could not agree more.

Joel was recently diagnosed with an advanced stage 4 esophageal cancer (median survival rate of 8 months). It is a shock - he is young and seems so healthy. Peigh It Forward has been created to chronicle the journey he and his family have embarked upon.

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I fear that Sherri Shephard, a co-host on The View, has once again shown that there is no limit to her own stupidity. My brain nearly exploded after seeing the following clip from yesterday’s show:

Did you hear what she said? Shepherd just attempted to assert that Christians existed in classical Greece, and that the Greeks threw them to the lions. When confronted on this point, she further claimed that “Jesus came first” (before Greeks and Romans) and stated “I don’t think anything predated Christians”.*

This wasn’t the first time Sherri has been so ridiculously inane: a few months ago she said that she wasn’t sure if the world was flat or not. I’ll give you a second to process that one. Sherri isn’t sure… if the world… is flat. Holy f*ckbuckets, Batman.

How do people like this exist, much less appear on broadcast television? Never before has this speech from Billy Madison been more relevant.

Sherri is so willfully ignorant it’s painful. I would feel sorry for her if she wasn’t so damn sure of her own infallibility.

via Huffington Post

Here is a picture of our President from the 2007 meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) in Sydney:

I can’t decide if this is sad or funny - Bush probably thinks that he is “being a leader rather than a follower.. eh eh eh.”

(via Digg)

Until recently the conflict in Darfur has gone largely unnoticed, both here in the US and in the broader international community. The Darfur Wall is an attempt to bring more attention (and funds) to groups that are trying to help people in this region.

An estimated 400,000 people have already died. Compare this to the estimated 50,000 dead in Iraq and you begin to get a sense of just how blind our media has been to this genocide.