More Comment Graphics Yes, this is a rough graphic. I meant for it to be a rough graphic. I looked for a rough graphic on the Internet, one that I could reprint here. Too many of our high school and college youth think it is funny to end up completely wasted. They do not see […]
Link spasm
I learned a new term today, “Link Spam.” The title of this post is a deliberate misspelling so that people searching for information on the subject would not accidentally link here expecting something else. It started this way, I have a very handy WordPress plug-in called Akismet. It is also available free for other platforms, […]
What do Eastern Orthodox believe about free will?
I have very obviously not done a good job explaining what Eastern Orthodox believe about free will. So, rather than using my own words, let me quote a couple of excerpts from The Confession of Dositheus. This confession was approved by the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672. It is not considered an Ecumenical Council by […]
Lowering the drinking age
A website reports an interesting story on how college presidents believe that it is time to lower the drinking age to the voting age. Apparently, college drinking tends towards binge drinking precisely because it is forbidden. Actually, this is not that strange. St. Paul warned us a long time ago that if we forbid something, there is […]
Top urban legends
Have you received the email about . . . ? All of us get e-mails forwarded from our friends. Many of them contain some story or other that either has a deep meaning, or tell an incredible story, or give us the truth behind some event. Unfortunately many of them are wrong. And, they are […]
Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. hands
The title above is the title of a New York Times article published today. You can read it here. The gist of the article is simple. The immigrant in question was not an illegal immigrant. He came to the USA from China (not Taiwan, but China) on a tourist visa and applied for political asylum […]
The customer is not always right!
There are days when I feel like an old curmudgeon. This is one of them. When did we decide that the customer is always right? And, have we ever considered what it has done to us and what it says to us about how we consider people who serve us and what types of behavior […]
Another anti-Obama email
I have just received another anti-Obama e-mail. It is purportedly a set of quotes that show him as a hate-filled black radical who is probably Muslim. As with many e-mails of that type, it is either made up or deliberately twisted. In fact, one of the quotes attributed to Mr. Obama was actually made by […]
