I have had a couple of months to sit back and take a long look at the world around me. I was mostly disappointed with what I saw, but there were exceptions.
Daytime Television Is Worse Than You Think. Nothing has depressed me more than the fact that when I was bedridden, all the entertainment I [...]

The magazine Advertising Age has finally figured something out and is urging their readers to take heed: Men are not Idiots!
The way the advertising industry portrays men has drawn increasing scrutiny in both the trade press and the mainstream media. Defenders of the status quo — in which men are depicted as irresponsible fathers and [...]

My wife Rene recently returned from a trip to eastern Oregon to visit her parents. She brought back some breath-taking pictures of the natural beauty of the area, and I thought that I’d share a few of her pictures.

The above picture is of Anthony Lake, which is within the Blue Mountain Range. I don’t know [...]

UPDATED AND CORRECTED 6/6/2006 (see below)
This has got to be the worst example of the abdication of personal responsibility I’ve ever seen.
The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn’t want. Well, not literally, but let me explain.
I am a 42-year-old happily married mother of two elementary-schoolers. My husband [...]

3 teenagers who set fire to several Baptist Churches were arrested on Wednesday. Their explanation was that it was a “joke that got out of hand.”
The arson attacks apparently began when the three got into Cloyd’s sport utility vehicle for a night of deer shooting in Bibb County on Feb. 2, according to Walker Johnson, [...]

Today Rene and I celebrate our Ninth Wedding Anniversary. Looking back over the years, my decision to ask her to marry me still stands out as the smartest thing I’ve ever done. For nine years, Rene has put up with my sometimes sophomoric humor, my obsession with Rush, and my brother Marty. Then there’s that [...]

Islamofasicts and Cartoons: Looks like Muslims around the globe are upset over some depictions of Muhammad in cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. Now Denmark is subject to a Muslim boycott and Muslims around the world are threatening to kill, behead, or otherwise terminate Danish citizens where ever they may be. They’re doing this, by [...]

Who is weirder: the person who sold the kidney stone or the people who bought it?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Going maybe where no other actor has gone before, “Star Trek” star William Shatner has sold a piece of his body for charity.
Shatner, famed for playing Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the [...]

Ted Rall has an opinion piece up at Yahoo News. Basically, his point is that no one should be allowed to join the military until they are at least 30 years old, because before then they aren’t capable of making decisions about wars and combat.
As I write this now, at 42, I’m a different person. [...]

My wife and I went out to the movies last weekend and saw King Kong. This is an excellent picture and we both enjoyed every second of it. However, our enjoyment was tempered by the fact that about a third of the audience was comprised of children who were only 6 or 7 years of [...]

When it comes to disciplining your children, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ideas:
Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter’s poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. [...]

I once read a story in Reader’s Digest about a soldier who had served in Viet Nam and was wounded terribly. Even though the story told about the soldier’s fight with his health upon return to America, the story was, I thought at the time, one of the most uplifting and inspirational I had ever [...]

There is an excellent piece out in the Wall Street Journal (link for subscribers only) written by Bob Williams regarding the blame game that is going on in the MSM regarding Hurricane Katrina. The preface was written by John Hinds, a retired Air Force Colonel who now resides in Seattle, Washington.
Hindsight: There is the ancient [...]

It never fails to amaze me how stupid people can be:
New Orleans police officers are moving through the Hurricane Katrina- devastated city and trying to get thousands of residents who have resisted moving to leave, a deputy police chief said Monday.
During a news conference, Deputy Superintendent Warren Riley said police were telling the remaining residents [...]