Okay, now that’s funny.. And this is even better: WALLET returned to ARMED ROBBER! So the story goes… Late last week, one of our local eateries was the victim of an armed robbery. The suspect, Marcel Smith, age 44, of Moreno Valley entered the establishment, placing his wallet on the counter as he produced a handgun and..
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You are still in jail So, Facebook doesn’t make it very easy, but I found out why I was jailed: Bette Midler. She wrote a vulgar poem about the President’s penis and Breitbart reported it. I posted it — and violated those Facebook Community Standards, at least in the view of some troll who follows..
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Did I even mean that? I’ve been thinking about prayer lately, and conversation in general, and I’m struck by how many phrases we use without ever really owning them. By “owning them” I mean understanding their meaning so well that we feel powerfully confident using them. It can be a confidence born of discipline and..
I took a nap and woke up to find a bunch of pretty girls being pretty for the cameras on the tavern front lawn. Vintage clothing catalog shoot. Now if only there were three million vintage clothing companies in America.. (more…)
I’m fairly sure my dad worked hard, and took risks, because he was tired of being poor. He worked onion fields in the late summer to pay for his own school clothes and he remembered meager breakfasts of cracked wheat cereal in the Great Depression. He delivered papers on horseback in the winter and he..
This is the 2nd fork in the road, going up to Grandma’s house. The pears are loaded right now. The pumpkins are flowering and we have some of the culprits identified. I set my best walking pace in six weeks. (more…)
..to review the contribution of blind, cross-dressing Native Americans.. Democracy, in the age of identity grievance activism, can do very strange things to the study of history. Even those meek, monkish fellows in the medieval studies department can’t discuss Gotlandic picture stones without fending off white supremacy claims. It’s a bit like producing a play..
Arise, O Lord, Confront him, cast him down; Deliver my life from the wicked with Your sword, With Your hand from men, O Lord, From men of the world who have their portion in this life.. I’m sensing a fair amount of battle fatigue out there. Yes, the American people displayed a great deal of sanity — and defied political corruption..
A Virginia Tech Ritual Makes Me Wonder: Is America LOSING it?? When I was a teenager, some of the neighbors’ mail was dropped mistakenly in our box, and — without going into detail — flipping through one of their magazines told me something about them: they were part of a sociological cult — or at..