Like a lot of American kids, I went to Sunday School and learned about God. Not that 
there wasn’t better things to do on a Sunday, but my parents made me go. “God,” the teacher said, “is the one and only God! There is only one God and this is the God you must worship!” O.K. The teacher is the proverbial “500 pound gorilla” in the room, so I memorize this. One God, one God, one God, one God, I think to myself. Got it!
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It’s no secret that Lance Armstrong is in love with himself. He is also an incredible
athlete. As a result, Lance Armstrong is famous and infamous, notorious and heroic, argumentative and peaceful, and generous, but conniving. He is a hero to most and a villain to many. And no one vilifies an athlete better than a twisted regulatory body. The NCAA demonstrated this so well with its recent sanctions against Penn State and like a new hit comedy show, other agencies are donning their best bib and tucker to copycat the popular new collegiate sitcom. Now the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (and don’t tell me you didn’t know we had one) stripped Armstrong of his Tour de France titles and banned him from Continue reading
What ever happened to the working class? In political campaigns and jargon, everyone who is someone, other than the rich, is in the middle class. No one wants to admit they work. Work is a bad word, especially if you’re a politician, but ironically, these same hacks Continue reading
For the past forty years, scientists, politicians and regular people are trying to avert the impending doom that is the lack of energy. Many methods of quelling our thirst for oil and fossil fuels are investigated and implemented, such as wind, solar, wood, hydrogen and so on. Most companies involved with these fallacies are earning millions, even billions, of dollars perpetrating the next grand “solution” while wasting billions of barrels Continue reading
Robert S. Ryan, Pennsylvania’s czar of zoning law and practice, once wrote that 
applications are an exercise in arrogance. He explained that the person creating the application assumes what answers are needed to gather the necessary information for whatever the application is designed. With that in mind, while reading through several completed job applications for a code officer I needed, I decided to look at the questions before I perused the answers. There was a host of easy questions and information, such as name, address and age. A couple of seemingly useless questions, like “If hired, when can you start?” and “Were you convicted of a felony in the past five years?” The first question was pretty dependent on when I wanted them to start, I thought, and Continue reading
Unless you’re an ultimate technophobe, you’re familiar with the term “app.” “App” was originally an abbreviation for computer application, but now is used exclusively for handheld devices like a smart phone or mp3 player. There are some apps that make sense and others, entertaining as they may be for some, that are absolutely stupid in any Continue reading
Nothing rings truer than the Outback Steakhouse jingle, “No one’s goin’ to luv ya like yer mum!” My mother’s birthday is tomorrow, so I thought since I can’t be with her, what greater tribute than to wish her a Happy Birthday online. Everyone’s mother is special, I’m sure, but I thought I’d share a few reasons why my mother is special to me.
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We are born and then we die. In-between, we fill our lives with what we believe is 
important and with what we need to get by. Some people are born twice as they “find Christ,” or experience a near-death phenomenon. I witnessed many rebirths on Saturday August 11, 2012 at the U.S. Championship Ironman Competition in New York – over 2500 of them, my daughter included. One family suffered tragedy as a loved one died shortly after he was pulled from the Hudson River. Bike crashes along the Palisades Parkway were abundant Continue reading
In 1972, an Oliver Quayle survey declared Walter Cronkite “the most trusted man in America.” Recently, American University Professor Joseph Campbell, author of the book Getting It Wrong!, states that Cronkite was not the most trusted man in America at that time, and even wasn’t the most trusted newsman of the day. Dr. Campbell claims that the survey compared Cronkite to politicians of the day, not news anchors, but he fails to mention a 1974 Roper poll for Virginia Slims cigarettes that Cronkite won hands down. It actually asked Continue reading
The NCAA did it again! They defied everything that is near and dear to the United States of America by claiming its decisions cannot be appealed. Maybe you agree with the Paterno family, maybe you don’t, but what this ruling means is Charles Manson Continue reading
