I love History. And everyone says you can learn from History. If that were really true we wouldn’t keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over. But there is one overwhelming truism that we can learn from...
Category - Observation
I had a thought: Suppose the smartest people the world has ever seen who can create cures for some our greatest diseases and create some of our greatest inventions may very well be alive today and living in: An American...
I wish I had the bully pulpit and the means to start this: Why don’t ALL of the religious entities in America (Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, or whatever) pick a day and march. March in favor of BLACK LIVES...
First off, I am totally and completely in favor and sympathy with the Black Lives Matter protests, both in Portland and nationwide. I live quite near downtown Portland so I have a front-row seat to the news coverage of this...
I see basically good people support Trump. Yes, they are good people despite my knee-jerk desire and willingness to lump them all into a group of stupid, naïve, racist, or terrible people. Many of them are influence by their...
Something got to me today. I was accused by someone as being filled with hatred. I did not get it and I still do not get it. I was going to show the actual dialogue of the Facebook conversation that lead to this accusation but...
I loved my Grandmother (my mother’s mother) but I was never disalusioned about her. She was a mean-spirited woman. She could do many good things and many kind things but there was always an underlying sense to those who...
I recently had a discussion on Facebook that did not go well. I had a close, close relative who I thought crossed the line in defense of her convictions. It does not matter the issue here nor did it matter in the post as I...
It seems that every time I hear about Christians doing a lock-step support of Conservative politicians seems to be in recent years based upon a single issue. That issue is, of course, abortion. Regardless of the character of...
Every year around Christmas time I am inundated by Christian Church people railing about the downfall of America because of the political correct approach to Christmas. In particular, the use of “Happy Holidays”...