I gave up blatant self-promotion for Lent, but I’ll lapse just long enough to provide a peak at today’s feature article in Heartland magazine on the Spice Box restaurant.

Picture a laboratory on a university campus. What probably comes to mind are stainless-steel work surfaces covered with beakers and Bunsen burners. Students in white lab […]

Dave already beat me to this topic, but I want to throw it open to discussion here anyway.
You’ve probably heard that a proposal is in the works to raze Cole Hall, the site of the NIU shootings, and replace it with a new $40 million facility. Count me among those that think this decision, while […]

Driving home from Meijer this afternoon, Victor and I were rocking out to the Is-She-Really-Going-Out-With-Him bass groove that carries the awesome single, Steady, As She Goes.
When the song ended, the DJ informed us that we had been enjoying the sounds of the "Ra-counters." That’s how he said it, "Ra-counters." So not only had this DJ […]

Okay people, good debate but enough of this serious crap, it’s time for more of the fluff you’ve come to expect here at BFS.
I posted this question on a message board that I frequent and it got quite the response. So here it goes:
What celebrity or celebrities have you been told you resemble?
These have to […]

About five posts down, I found myself in the unlikely position of defending conceal carry laws. I’m not a strong proponent of such laws; I just won’t dismiss their supposed merits based on my personal dislike of guns. Anyway, there was a spirited debate on the topic, and I don’t mean to pander by rehashing […]