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• $400,000 in student loan debt is too much to be a lawyer in New York ::  “The size of this account is extremely unusual, but not surprising given that the customer took out 32 loans to pursue undergraduate, law and masters of law studies and has not made a single monthly payment over his 26-year student loan history,” Ms. Holler said. “We are performing an extensive review of his extraordinary case, and if we identify any errors we will quickly rectify them.”
• The best Canada Day e-card I have seen all day via
• “Moneyball” is in trouble :: The last-minute demise of a high-profile film project, especially one starring an A-list star like Mr. Pitt, is a rare spectacle in Hollywood — one that is painful, expensive and damaging to all involved. It also happened with “Used Guys,” a high-priced comedy at 20th Century Fox in 2006.
• The Beckham Experiment :: He makes $50 million, other teammates make $12,000 a year.  Not a great combination.
• Terry Mattingly on franchising the church :: “In these franchise operations, you don’t say you’re a Southern Baptist or a Methodist or a Presbyterian or whatever,” Yeats explained. “No, you say you attend the local branch of so-and-so’s church. The whole thing is held together by one man. That’s the brand name, right there.
• As a Detroit Pistons fan, I would sure like to know what Joe Dumars was thinking before he blew all of their cap space on Ben Gordon and Charlie Villeneuva.  I am sure a lot of people in Detroit are thinking the same thing as well.
• From Joseph Clarke in Triple Canopy, a comparison of the histories of the American megachurch and corporation.
• A short appreciation of the SR-71 Blackbird, an airplane that was literally faster than a speeding bullet.

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