I read an interesting editorial in THE NATIONAL REVIEW which said a lot about what I think of Phil Robertson and the reality show, Duck Dynasty. It chided those who want to defend Phil and his controversial remarks. Here is a link to the editorial: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416048/stop-defending-phil-robertson-youre-embarrassing-yourself-katherine-timpf Phil Robertson is Phil Robertson. I was a conservative,…
I will complain a bit about the cold weather, if you don’t mind. I will complain a bit if you do. I want to complain about it and will not be deterred. If you are satisfied with the weather, then turn the page, or rather, in modern parlance, hit the back button. If you are…
I don’t write about politics. Here’s the thing I’m not going to actually say but sort of what I would say if I might say something, which I’m not, of course. Thad should have retired. Before his new 763rd term term is over, if he gets re-elected, his handlers will have to watch him like…
Tribal bonds run deep, sometimes deeper than we realize, and the core unit of any tribe is a family. Tribes, however, have their own way of forming, and the bonds can be as strong as covalent bonds that bind one chemical to another, or atomic bonds that keep electrons in orbits to contain protons and…
“Formulary? I didn’t even know I had one,” you might say. “What is a formulary?” Your formulary is the list of approved medications for which your health insurance will pay full policy benefits. The amount of benefits varies under all policies, based on whether the drugs are generic or single-sourced under patent protection. Naturally, the…
Do not mistake the voice of a single London alehouse as the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift Who? Me? Would I do that? Certainly the alehouse I do all my business in, the one that has all my friends, the one I choose because those in it are the most like me, those with…
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…
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.…
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