I was at the library the other day and they were taking down the Black History Month bulletin board display. Packing away black history in a box until next year like it was Christmas lights or a manger scene.
Can’t you just imagine a neighborhood some place where a housewife is looking out the [...]
So, the Oscars were Sunday night…and I didn’t watch. A friend of mine said it was one of the most boring Oscars ever, so I’m glad i didn’t watch. I never find the Oscars all that interesting anyway, because I generally have never seen most of the movies nominated. And I don’t [...]
I’m a bit of TV junkie. I have been since I was a kid. I was not a coach potato kid, though. I’m not as a grown man, either. I always preferred (and still prefer) to be outdoors. But when I am inside, the TV is generally on. Even [...]
Did you know that more people in this country play the lottery than vote? Ain’t that kind of ironic. If you think about it, not voting is a bigger gamble than the Powerball. There’s a lot more at stake.
Nothing’s going to change in this country until our voting habits do.
So, get out and vote [...]
They say that if you want to get along with people never discuss religion or politics. (Of course, it’s getting so that in this country, despite what the Constitution says, the two are getting pretty mixed up and muddy). So, I’m a little uneasy about bringing up the subject of abortion. I’m probably going to [...]
I love irony. Irony practically gives me a chub. So imagine the whopper I was sprouting when I found out that VP Dick Cheney, one of the NRA poster boys, accidentally shot a friend in the face over the weekend while on a hunting trip. Apparently the victim got peppered with buckshot when Cheney aimed [...]
You have all heard of the Scopes Monkey trials, I’m sure. But did many of know that it all took place just a few hours from where I live? But that was back in the in the 1920’s, right? Nowadays people are much more evolved when it comes to matters of evolution. Right?
Actually not as [...]
Just a thirty-three year-old Tennessee mountain man, taking it one day at a time.
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