3/5/13 Detroit . . . The New Luxor?

The City of Detroit has fallen on hard times. A significant portion of it has been abandoned to decay. Detroit’s fiscal problems are so severe that The State of Michigan is in the process of appointing a manager to preside over it, since the city’s bankruptcy is almost certain. The idea of ghost towns is…

3/5/13 The Socialism of Jesus

Well . . .  He wasn’t a socialist. He was not even a political liberal. He was apolitical saying, “My kingdom is not of this world.” Jesus was raised as a conservative, orthodox Jew. He went to the synagogue and the Temple on the appointed days, He kept kosher and the holy days, and He…

3/2/13 Glioblastoma

I have Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. As Hemosapien told me over four years ago, I will die from it, or from a complication from it, or with it . . . one of the three. But, through treatment, I have been given time for which I am extremely thankful. Glioblastoma is not like that. It is…

2/23/12 Conspiracy Theories

There’s always been lots of ’em . . . they’re still floating around and growing with an increasing urgency. One-World-Governmental, New-World-Ordered, Illuminatified, Rothschildian-dominated, Masonic-Knights-Templared, Area 51ers, Roswellites, Alien-encounterers, Trilateral Commissars, Bilderberg Groupies, and even Bigfooters, every one of them secretly controlling the world (except Bigfoot), making decisions for you, determining every facet of your life…

2/22/13 Speech and Censorship

AUDIO Blog Click HERE Political correctness is becoming the new censorship. We’ve come to expect career-ending repercussions from politicians, sports-casters, entertainers, and athletes when they “misspeak.” No one is allowed an accident any more. A slip of the tongue is fatal. Every group that identifies itself in a particular manner has become as sensitive as…

2/21/13 Augustine. A Joker?

I am certain of this, that no one has died who was not going to do so at some time, and the end of life reduces the longest life to the same condition as the shortest. Augustine, City of God That Augustine. He was a real joker. Not really. But he was one of the…

2/21/13 No Way to Stop Federal Spending

We’re as out of control as a car crashing through the railing in an off-camber, decreasing-radius curve on a steep mountain road, careening to the bottom. We will not stop until the forces of inertia and gravity have equalized at the bottom of the hill. What’s left may not be worth picking up, other than…

2/19/13 Horaces in the Arts

The first Horace that comes to mind is Quentus Horatius Flaccus (65-27BC), known to the world, like Madonna, Cher, Elvis, Sting, Prince, and Bono, simply by a single name. Horace was a great Roman poet who lived during the time of Emperor Augustus (Octavian). Some say that Horace produced the only poetry worth reading during…

2/17/13 The World’s Gone Topsy-Turvy

When the Chicago Police Chief accuses the gun lobby of corruption because of record gun violence in a city where law abiding citizens cannot own firearms, only criminals . . . When a Chicago official accuses anyone else of corruption . . . When an Illinois Congressman and heir to the already tainted throne of…