Five things about Facebook that make me want to punch a kitten
Alright, here’s the deal: I’ve been pretty active on Facebook now for a couple of months. I’ve reconnected with childhood friends, I’ve become addicted to a couple of goofy games, I’ve taken myriad quizzes and posted photos, and I’ve even used it to drive traffic to one of my blogs. I have a nice little group of [...]
Our flooded house is finally gone
The demolition of the old house is complete. Photo at left of the hole in the ground was taken Wednesday of last week, and looks east toward the neighbor’s house. Clean-up will continue, of course, but with the bitter cold it may be awhile.
I had a love-hate relationship with trees on this property. The tree standing [...]
Should Christians be judged more harshly for rude behavior?
Shane mused yesterday about the value of having Christian bumper stickers on one’s car – and there was something he said that got my brain going in a slightly different direction. Shane observed:
With others you just see a disconnect with what is on the car and conduct while driving the car. Nice seeing somebody with [...]
Brooks pleads guilty; what is the cost?
I was reading about former City Councilman Archie Brooks’s newly minted guilty plea, and a few folks on the Register’s website were commenting about how he had done a lot of good for the community over the years. They were rebutted immediately by those who believed that Brooks’s apparent breaches of the public trust far [...]
Legal Tender in Liberia and Palau
We were watching a program on Court TV Sunday night and up popped a commercial for the “Corvette Dollar,” the latest release from the National Collector’s Mint. I’m assuming that these types of things have to be considered legal tender in some country to be marketed as “coins,” and whenever I see these commercials I look [...]
The evils of bottled water: it’s not the ‘tap water’ that’s a problem
My family and I have long joked about how the bottled water display in the grocery store is probably hooked up to a regular old tap water faucet, and Aquafina’s recent announcement suggests that we might be on target.
So you can probably imagine a little of what was going through my mind when I read [...]