Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Evansdale playground had a brand new slide that went round and round like a corkscrew. It was so cool. I was standing at the top, and I could hardly wait for my turn I was so excited. But the kid in front of me just sat there on the edge without sliding down. I said,
Saturday, July 20th, 2013
Man can live and satisfy his wants in one of two ways: either by his own labor, or by plundering the labor of others. Labor is the creation of wealth – it creates something which was not...
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Why do people lie? I never thought about it much, but this past week I was put to the test. I forced myself to bite my tongue and not speak what I believed to be true. There...
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Rest easy citizen, Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine is here to protect you from the evils of coffee (cups). Apparently there is not enough crime in Ohio to keep Dewine busy, so instead he has invested his...
Monday, July 15th, 2013
So many people demand respect. To my way of thinking, respect is earned. There is no such thing as disrespect. You either earn respect, or you don’t. When I see a man dressed in a Tuxedo, or...
Sunday, July 14th, 2013
In a 1981 trial in Mobile, Alabama, a jury of his peers found Josephus Andersonan innocent of murdering a policeman. Ku Klux Klansman Benny Hays disagreed with the verdict. In a meeting held shortly after the trial...
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Air travel is generally safe, but not 100% safe. Sometimes equipment fails, sometimes the weather interferes, and sometimes humans err. In his 2009 book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell examined a particular type of human error in a chapter...
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
When I was about four years old, my parents gave me a toy piano. Up until that moment, I had been able to figure out just about anything, but it soon became quite clear to me that...
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
I was a teenager when Margaret Thatcher was elected as Britain’s Prime Minister in 1979. The seventies were definitely the heyday of the women’s movement, so I was a little surprised by the reaction of feminist’s of...
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Within minutes of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, political hacks were openly hoping for an outcome that would support their agenda. On CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR etc. the message was clear, “We want to blame it...
