“My Poor Babies” Syndrome
The power of expectations is unquestioned. Every season we see new coaches take over struggling athletic programs with few wins, and in short order, win with the same players who… Read more “My Poor Babies” Syndrome →
Best Streaming Videos November 20, 2019
I have been wanting to do this blog for a long time. I am not a critic. Don’t intend to be. I am just here to tell you about what… Read more Best Streaming Videos November 20, 2019 →
Reviews of Angry Heavens
Carolyn – Cornelius, North Carolina David Michael Dunaway has written an engrossing book of likable, caring, courageous people dealing with the horrors of the Civil War. Dunaway carefully shows the reader… Read more Reviews of Angry Heavens →
Go Ahead. Disown Me!
My first cousin Liz down in Baldwin County, Alabama, posted this quote today on Facebook, “Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.” Well … amen to… Read more Go Ahead. Disown Me! →
Hallowed Ground
The excerpted letter below, and the attached picture , should remind us not to forget the veterans of our nation’s most brutal war. The Civil War cost the country 620,000 dead as many as all other wars combined. Astoundingly this was 2% of the entire population of the United States. One if four who went to war did not return to their families. The letter is from Jim Lighthizer, President of the American Battlefield Trust. I am a member, I donate as I can to preserved this HALLOWED GROUND. Today… Read more Hallowed Ground →
Cut That Cord!
Back a couple of years or so ago, I dismantled the satellite dish, dug up the pole it was attached to, moved it, painted the pole brown, and put a… Read more Cut That Cord! →
Revenge of the Assistant Principal
Eons ago in a high school in a galaxy far, far away, I was a new assistant principal. I was a gung-ho, take-no-prisoners, school-rule-enforcing, sheriff, marshal, and the po-po all rolled… Read more Revenge of the Assistant Principal →
We Are in The Age of Dogma
One person shares an opinion with others and perhaps it is a legitimate idea. If that opinion becomes held as a good and true belief by a group, and the group codifies it, it becomes doctrine. If the group accepts that doctrine as the authority, it becomes dogma. Republican dogma. Democrat dogma. NRA dogma. Islamic dogma. Christian right dogma. Christian left dogma. Jewish dogma. Palestinian dogma. Politically correct dogma. Capitalist dogma. Socialist dogma. Gun control dogma. Abortion dogma. We are in the age of dogma, and it seems that truth is merely a… Read more We Are in The Age of Dogma →
Southern Exposures 