Not a headline you'll see every day. BTW, the "hot Mormon moms" are posing to raise money for breast cancer research, but that doesn't mean some of the more conservative in their church aren't a bit upset.

What this piece doesn't mention is that in addition to the 15 year high vacancy rate of 13.9% compared to 11.6% a year ago, the average rent is also down in the Triad from $643/month this time last year to $629 this year. (That might be covered in the full version of the article which seems to be behind a paid subscriber firewall). Not good news any which way you slice it.

Dan Collins posted a nice piece on his blog about Wake Forest AD Ron Wellman's connection to Joe Girardi (he was Girardi's college coach at Northwestern). I learned quite a few things about Girardi that I didn't know, like he was a three time Academic All-American in Industrial Engineering and he played minor league ball here in Winston-Salem. With all the abuse that Girardi's been taking in the press it was nice to read this.

In general countries that have lower murder rates have higher suicide rates.