There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill Opinions are like love bugs on a humid July evening. They flit about aimlessly on their brief amorous adventures, only to find themselves mashed against your windshield about the same time they find a mate. I don’t think anything…
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton Once you start with Chesterton, there is no good stopping point. The above quote will likely infuriate my many excellently educated friends. Chesterton said what he said. I will likely add to it. We will go from there…
The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton That Chesterton is so annoying. He takes the obvious and demands that I stare at it until I see its obviousness. There is no escaping him once you start. Arguments against him are undertaken at one’s own…
I have been the recipient of some benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (The ACA, also known as Obamacare). I wonder by what name I should call it now? Should I take the administration’s recent cue and revert to calling it the ACA instead of Obamacare? Should I call it the ACA…
I cannot help but reflect on the shame of the behavior of many shoppers this past Black Friday. Every year it seems like things get worse. It could be that since a whole year rolls around between one Black Friday and the next, it only seems worse. Perception becomes ones reality and I perceive this…
Thank goodness for cold, dreary, rainy days. I have been awake since midnight last night, and a rather bellicose case of Restless Legs Syndrome make it likely that I will not sleep again tonight. Someone recently said that if I had a clear conscience I would sleep better. I laughed out loud at that…
Fifty years ago today saw the passing of not only JFK, but the remarkable C.S. Lewis. And Aldous Huxley. A bad day in the affairs of men. C.S. Lewis was one of the most powerful Christian thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. He resisted the zeitgeist in order to lay his claim to his…
11/22/13 JFK and Fifty Years I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. “Someone killed the President,” someone said. I don’t remember who. I was standing on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Gamble’s first grade class at Gautier Elementary School in Gautier, Mississippi. We were just coming back from afternoon recess.…
In an effort to limit costs, as any insurer is wont to do, Magnolia Health Plan in Mississippi has signed up all the Medicaid healthcare providers, and not one single provider more. Among the president’s many claims that are not panning out, his claim, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” is…
First things first. My “Music” computer is down. It must make a trip to the computer guru for some attention. I need to get a new one, or transfer everything over to the computer I use for video editing. My Music computer still runs Windows XP. Protools 8 requires XP and will not run on…
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