Marine Corps Marathon
We made it into the Marine Corps Marathon! Jack, me and my dad will be wearing Reasoned Audacity t-shirts and running (well, if you can call it that) 26.2 miles in October. . ....
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Guest Blog: Just Another Hour. . .
The question of “time,” and the pain we feel at our futile attempts to slow its rapid passage, always reminds me of C. S. Lewis’ observation that our discomfort in the temporal is proof...
Starbucks Hires Lobbyist — Former Clinton Aide
Front page news, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, that Starbucks is making a move on Washington, D.C., guided largely by their lobbyist, Kris Friend-of-Bill Engskov. “Cautiously, Starbucks Puts Lobbying on Menu.” Just...
Life's purpose
Paul Hogue, over at My Dogs Are Smarter, has written a nice response to my piece on suffering. (Check out the dog pic on his profile page – very funny.) His observation that “God...
Britney Spears: Motherhood does not make you "grown up"
For the files of “amazingly stupid things the MSM says” . . . The AP is reporting that Britney Spears has announced that she is pregnant. And here’s what they conclude: Spears’ impending motherhood...
Sad Cinderella
I’ve been called on the carpet by a reader for my post on Prince Charles and Camilla, which was, I admit, pretty snarky. . . I know the wedding is over and done now,...
I'm Buyin' Dunkin' . . .
Scrawled in big letters on the family calendar: Boycott Starbucks! Boycott Revlon! in the Dreamer’s handwriting, right next to where I had clipped the graph showing corporate political donations. (Starbucks 100% Democrats; Revlon 68%...
Meditation on Suffering and Sacrifice
These last few weeks have been ones of death and dying; a month of contemplating the purpose of pain and the meaning of suffering. It is a time for revisiting places of meditation, pondering...
Color-coded Shopping: Starbucks, Out! Dunkin' Donuts In!
As reported by Brenda Goodman in one of my favorite lefty business mags, Fast Company, there’s a new source for color-coding your shopping and coordinating your voting and your spending habits. Check out www.choosetheblue.com...
Big Man in Charge!
Who’s in charge here? Yeah, baby. No contest. It’s the little big man in the middle . . . (check out that face!)
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