Amid the furor over the Vice-President’s indication of executive orders being used to limit constitutional rights, I decided I would write something refuting an article on gun control I read in The Huffington Post. That I would disagree with an article from Huffington is hardly surprising, is it? And many of you are wondering why…

December 21, 2012, came and went without incident. The world did not end, except for the 153,319.64 people I talked about earlier. It pretty much went right on for the rest of us. Yesterday, my long-time friend, Jake, was among the 153,319.64. Jake’s recently diagnosed stage IV cancer got the best of him, as it…

Apparently, not too far. We all knew Canaan, my 23 year old son, was talented . . . we just had yet to discover what those talents were. Charm, wit, affability, unfailingly loyal, an easy graceful manner – it was easy to discern these, but, arguably, they aren’t really talents, I suppose; they are mannerisms…

That bastion of conservative frugality and useful accomplishments, The United Nations, is wanting to assess retroactive cash payments from nations who may or may not have produced greenhouse gasses contributing to global climate change which may or may not have damaged certain unspecified nations at some point in the past, or may or may not…

Who actually eats fruitcake? Someone is bound to. Someone must like it. My bank hauls out what appears to be the very same bricks of Claxton Fruit cake every Christmas. I ask them, “Are these the same ones y’all had up here last year?” “Oh! No!,” they assure me. “We get them fresh every year.…

Who kills his mother than goes to the Kindergarten Class where she teaches and opens fire on her students? A crazy, mixed up 20 year old named Adam Lanza, that’s who. This is an unspeakably horrible incident. We seem to hear about school and workplace shootings all the time, starting with Charles Whitman who killed…

I am exhausted. There is no starch left in my jeans. My fibers have wilted. The support structures keeping my spine upright have been replaced with an over-boiled linguine. I don’t know what to do about it, except for this: I am not complaining, but merely making an observations. The exhaustion is mental, which means…

You have previously been introduced here to Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Monica Weeks, and Brittany McCoskey. Please refer back to my blog post dated 8/17/12. Sachdeva was the oncologist, owner, and operator of the Rose Cancer Center in Summit, Mississippi, whose clinic was shut down by the Mississippi Department of Health after numerous cancer patients were…

This is not a news blog. Nor is it a history blog. I am not an historian. It has been suggested that I am a passable amateur historiographer, but I am not capable of being an historian, since I cannot help but extrapolate and insert myself into places where a lack of evidence or a…

Caricatures of famous people can be expensive works of art. The character that made them worthy of caricature is a far more valuable thing. The one is a facade that represents some essence of greatness someone felt worthy of commemorating. The other is the actual essence of character that led the artist to commemorate them,…