Many of us are just too careless in our choice of words. Often, they just flow off our tongues in a fit of anger, joy, or just plain intemperance. We use them to make a point, but sometimes what we say can get us in a whole pile of trouble. Take U.S. Representative John Sullivan [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Watch what you say
Posted in Changing yourself, Crime, Opinions, People on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The next chapter
Posted in Death, Growing old, Life, Opinions, Religion on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What, do you suppose, is the next chapter? Perhaps, before asking that, one would have to query, “Is there a next chapter?” I was listening to a woman on television today. She indicated that she remembered the car crashing into a tree; then everything went black; next, she awoke to choirs of singing children and [...]
What is a news story?
Posted in Death, Demonstrations, Media, News, Opinions on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You know what I haven’t heard much about lately…the “left-wing media.” Newt certainly hasn’t been talking about it and he was one of the most vocal critics. Santorum, Romney, and Paul don’t care; they’re getting their coverage; it’s not all good, but the coverage is there. I guess that radical left-wing media group must have [...]
Doing it in a dream
Posted in Dreams, Education, Human behavior, Opinions on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It is generally a very cold day in hell when I remember a dream. I’m told that we have at least 4-6 dreams per night, and if I’m asked to remember anything at all about any single one of them, I’d probably be forced to tell the inquirer to bugger off. When I was younger [...]
To mute or not to mute…
Posted in Kindle, Media, Opinions, Television on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Who among you will have the courage to take issue with me when I say that the greatest invention of the 20th Century is…wait for it…the mute button on the television remote? That one tiny grey (I painted mine red to speed things up) can shut out the world of hard sell car dealers, furniture [...]
Looking Back
Posted in Giving thanks, Life, Opinions, Personal, Volunteerism on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Do you remember Nat ‘King’ Cole’s hit song, Looking Back Over My Life? For no particular reason, I was thinking about that song the other day. Well, on second thought, maybe there was a particular reason. You see, it’s been said that when you’re in the final stages of leaving this earth you do look [...]
To the plodders
Posted in Human behavior, Life, Media, Opinions, People, Philosophy, Volunteerism on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you read the newspapers or watch television, you might just get the impression that the world is full of really good people or really bad people. There are people we admire and say, “Wow, isn’t he or she fantastic.” There are people we feel sadly for and say something like, “Oh, isn’t that too [...]
Bad off…or are we?
Posted in America, Opinions on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It would be so much fun to write about something pleasant; something that would be uplifting and bring joy to the hearts of readers. However, as I listen to the news on local, national, and even international television, and as I read the newspapers from around the world, there is so little to make us [...]
Let’s look forward…together
Posted in Creative Problem Solving, Drunk driving, Human behavior, Opinions, Traffic on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, goodie; the annual meeting of the American Automobile Associations (AAA) Foundation for Traffic Safety research and development committee will take place in February. That’s the time when a bunch of suits sit around a big table and decide which college or university should receive money for traffic safety research projects. It’s also a photo [...]
Oh, this is bad!
Posted in Colonoscopy, Hospitals, Opinions on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here comes one of those blogs that you read and go, “Ugh, I cannot believe I read the whole thing!” But you will…c’mon, you know you will. It’s raunchy without sex. It’s the dark underbelly of life without guns, knives, succinylcholine, or some other exotic poison, and without car chases and gun fights in dark [...]
