When a Bargain Isn’t A Bargain

Sometimes a bargain isn’t really a bargain.  We all know, for example, that if you are going off to fight a dragon, you do not want to get your sword and armor at Wal-Mart.  Cheap armor can cost you an arm and a leg, and that’s if you’re lucky.  You want one of those fancy swords [...]

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Ramblings About Getting Old (Before I Forget)

Today is my birthday.  Before I forget, I should write something about getting old.
I won’t tell you how old I am, but I will give you a hint.  By some forms of twisted logic, I should get twice as drunk tonight as I did on my 21st birthday, the first night that I could legally drink [...]

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Three Earth Day Thoughts

Since today is Earth Day, I need to go against my reputation as an anti-environmentalist tree-killer, and make some suggestions for how you can slightly improve your corner of the planet. 
These suggestions are painless and will not have any harmful effects, such as raising the price of tortillas in Mexico, or encouraging people to cut [...]

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Vote Cthulhu For President on Tuesday

By now, you all are probably sick of the Pennsylvania Presidential Primary.
You have gotten tired of tracking Bill Clinton’s whereabouts, so that you could keep your daughters at least 10 miles away. You have heard Obama say “Yes, We Can” so many times that you just want to say “But What if We Don’t [...]

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Bishop Trautman is Right About Mercyhurst

In the Erie Times-News, today’s Friday Forum Op-Ed contains a whine from Christopher DeSante about Bishop Trautman’s disapproval of the pro-Clinton rally at Mercyhurst.   Mr. DeSante complains that the pro-life issue should not be the only issue that Catholics are concerned with, and he also bemoans the closed-mindedness of the bishop in not allowing alternative viewpoints [...]

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Bread and Lentils – Yum

Diogenes the Cynic was enjoying a meal of bread and lentils when he was visited by another Greek philosopher.  The other philosopher made a handsome living by flattering the local king.
“Diogenes,” said the other, “If you would only learn to flatter the king, you would not have to live on bread and lentils.”
“If you would [...]

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Odds and Ends

1. Anna is reading “Death of a Salesman” for her high school literature class. She hates this book almost as much as her dad did 25 years ago. In fact, she wishes the salesman could have died in the first act, and saved her the trouble of reading the rest of the [...]

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Without God, All is Gray

Last week in our Sunday School hour we welcomed Ande Truman, a missionary who is raising support to go to Trnava in Slovakia with a Christian ministry called “The Building.”  She will be doing several things there, including teaching English, building relationships with Slovak teenagers and sharing the gospel with them, and using her graphic design [...]

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Notes From Las Vegas

Las Vegas is about the last place I would choose to go.  I mean, I’m already married, so I have no need to see “a preacher-man who looks like Elvis.”  (Weddings start at $99.00 here.  Do they have a warranty at that price?)  And I’m a  Calvinist.  People who believe in predestination just have a hard [...]

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