SUB-PRIME MARKETS, THE ENVIRONMENT, CNN'S "PLANET IN PERIL" We have all heard of the problems relating to the sub-prime mortgage. What may not be readily understood is that events surrounding this economic issue can serve as an example and model for debates [...]
SUPERBUGS, DROUGHTS, ECONOMY: CONSPIRACY? By now many of you have probably heard the news about the new ‘superbug,’ designated as MRSA infection. A staph infection, this virus is claiming over 18,000 lives each year which is more than [...]
HOUSE COMMITTEE ADDS GOD TO GENOCIDE LIST! The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee decided to broaden its resolution condemning the Ottoman Empires genocide of Armenians to include a few more historical events. Not [...]
WHAT IF THEY WERE PRIESTS? As the military junta in Burma puts the final nails in the pro-democracy movement an interesting question comes to mind. What would have been the world’s reaction, particularly in the West, if [...]
BURMA, "CRY FOR ME!" The sounds of silence regarding Burma are deafening. Facing certain violence, the Buddhist monks of Burma took to the streets to peacefully demand change in a country that has been ruled for [...]
ECONOMIC BANDAGES WILL NOT HEAL THE ECONOMY! When you get a cut you add a little antiseptic and seal it off with a bandage. All these treatments do is prevent infection; the actual healing is done by the body and not the treatment. It is a [...]
WATER, WATER... A report this weekend about Lake Superior is both surprising and a bit disconcerting. The report indicated that over the past five years, Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water on the [...]
SOMETHING IS FUNDAMENTALY WRONG! Something is fundamentally wrong! After two millennia of organized Christianity the world is not a better place. The same can be said for Islam and all organized religions. Faiths that were [...]
CNN'S GOD'S WARRIORS “God’s Warriors,” produced and recently aired by CNN should serve as a wake-up call to anyone wondering why the world is in such a state of political, social and religious turmoil. Based upon [...]
PET, PEOPLE AND TOYS, OH MY! First pet food, then people food and toys; what’s next? You have to love globalization and all of its wonderful ramifications. Actually, when I first heard of globalization I thought it was a [...]
Hot Off The Press
More News of the Who...
Well, while I'm waiting impatiently for the final episode and trying to avoid spoilers. Here are a few newsbites to keep you entertained in the meantime. (Yes. You read that correctly. I am [...]
Love Question Nine
Woo hoo! I’m glad to be back and doing the Love Questions meme from Short Sweet Love Poems. I do enjoy the questions and reading the thoughts of others.
This week we have a very interesting, [...]
Bevy of Hogs Advance on Day Six of U.S. Olympic Trials EUGENE, Ore. – The 200- and 1,500-meter races were stellar events for Arkansas Razorback track and field on day six of the U.S. Olympic Trials at Oregon's Hayward Field on Friday. [...]
Reader Questions – Money Surprisingly (at least to me), I get email from readers on a regular basis asking me for additional information on a post or even posing their own questions. This is one such question that I [...]
Some Summer Music Pics from Five Magazine
That's this SUNDAY in TAOS....go camping too.
Brave Combo
Nearly thirty years ago, someone
classifi ed Denton, Texas’ Brave Combo as a
new wave polka band, which they are. Th ey
even won [...]
Velvet Verbosity's 100 Words Hello everyone!
I don’t usually post on Saturdays here, but in an effort to bring something new and different to this site, I am participating in Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Words prompt.
If you [...]
News from Five Magazine
At last! Let's see how far I get. www.readfive.comThis summer in Taos Joan Armitrading will perform. Here an interview by Bill Nevins with Joan A.
“Under the surface there
was always a [...]
Fruits of the Spirit: Be kind to each other
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
Kindness is [...]
Velvet Verbosity's 100 Words Ah, it feels so good to be back writing here again. And doing my beloved 100 words again! I suppose I could have done the one I missed on my personal site, but…
Yeah, that’s probably not a [...]