Chicago Daily Observer

The Mixture Could Really Stir the Pot at Wrigley!

“Wait till next year” came later than usual in 2007 for us Cub fans. While we’re waiting, some of us are turning our attention to billionaire Mark Cuban and his interest in buying the team. Given his success in the business world and with the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban looks like he could reverse the curse and save the lovable losers from another full century of despair.

But at what price?

Cuban, a Pittsburgh-area native, made his money in computers, but he’s equal parts aspiring jock and tinkering geek. A graduate of the University of Indiana’s Kelley School of Business, Cuban went on to create a number of successful ventures, before co-founding Broadcast.com along with fellow Kelley-grad Todd Wagner. The online service combined his passion for sports with his devotion to technological innovation, delivering game audio to fans via the Web. After ... Read More...

I was picking up my kids at their church youth group recently, and as I did they handed me a flyer: it’s the fall mission project to help save lives from the scourge of Malaria in the third world, particularly Africa, and the church has partnered with a missionary group active in the area. The mechanism for saving lives lost to the plague of malaria? Mosquito nets, with a natural insecticide on them.

I will probably buy a net or two. This is a solid evangelical church, and I want to support it in any way I can.

I just wish I could contribute to a DDT fund.

Seriously.

The charity rightly recounts that over a million lives in the third world are lost each year to Malaria. Some estimates put it at three million, and yes it’s mostly pregnant women and children. Hundreds of millions more are sickened ... Read More...