Negative Campaigning
Oct 28, 2007
Well, here we are heading into November which means the first Presidential Primary elections will be coming up in just a few short months. Of course that means we should all be preparing for the upcoming bombardment of negative campaign ads, repeated ad nauseum, over and over and over again, until we all just want to turn off [...]
The Devastating California Fires
Oct 27, 2007
It’s a bit like a recurring nightmare: Every 2 or 3 years parts of southern California are scorched by out-of-control wildfires, leaving behind billions of dollars in loss and damage as well as needless loss of life. While this round of fires has been particularly devastating, it is hardly out of the ordinary. Some folks are having [...]
“Unanswered Prayers”
Oct 22, 2007
Have you ever prayed for something, and when you didn’t get it you felt like your prayer had been ignored by God? Well, most Christians have felt that way at one time or another. 1 Peter 3:12 says “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their [...]
Why I rarely watch television anymore
Oct 17, 2007
I rarely watch television these days because, quite frankly, there is little on worth watching. I remember how my family would gather around the only television set in the house in my younger years to watch “Walt Disney”, “Little House on the Prairie”, “Wild Kingdom”, “Hee Haw” or one of the other wonderful old shows that [...]
This year’s fall colors…or the lack thereof
Oct 13, 2007
Well, now that autumn has arrived here in southwestern Virginia it’s time for the “hills and hollers” to turn from the green of summer into a beautiful mosaic of yellow, orange, red and purple, but for the second year in a row it looks like the leaves are falling to the ground about as fast as they [...]
BibleGateway.com
Oct 10, 2007
I often find myself needing to search the Bible for a specific passage that I plan to quote or write about in an article, and I have found an excellent resource that makes that task very fast and easy. It’s called BibleGateway.com, and I can’t recommend it highly enough! The premise behind the site is very simple: They have [...]
Why can’t Wal-Mart display the latest technology?
Oct 7, 2007
Every time I visit a Wal-Mart store I make it a point to stop by the photo department and check out the cameras. Apparently, Wal-Mart’s warehouses are jam-packed with outdated models because they never have any of the current models on display – but they do have them boxed up in a locked glass cabinet [...]
