The Alcohol Made Me Do It Larry Eustachy, the head coach of the Iowa State University men's basketball team, has a drinking problem. It has gotten him into trouble. Coach Eustachy is apologizing and back-pedaling like crazy now after pictures were published of him (a 47 year old married man) drinking, kissing college-age women on [...]
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A Message to Jacques Chirac LT Smash takes a historical look at the relationship between France and the United States and compares it to what's been going on lately. It is a letter well worth reading.
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San Francisco Church Suggestions I'm visiting San Francisco, California this weekend for business. The trade show I'm working runs Saturday through Tuesday, but I think I'll have at least Sunday morning off. Our team is small, but large enough that we don't all need to be there at the same time. So, I'm looking for [...]
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President Bush's Faith Interesting op-ed piece at the Wall Street Journal on President Bush's faith and some of the criticism he's received because of it. The president comes by his faith, of course, because he stopped drinking and found God at age 40. As a Methodist, he's not exactly a speaking-in-tongues Pentecostal, but he clearly [...]
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Bridling My Tongue Randy McRoberts hits one out of the park on controlling the things we say and the impact we can have on others with our words. He wrote it from the text in James 1:26-27. James 1:26-27 NASB26: If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but [...]
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Mr. Irrelevant The National Football League player draft was held this weekend. The last player taken, the 262nd selection, each year is dubbed Mr. Irrelevant. Mr. Irrelevant 2003 is wide receiver Ryan Hoag from the Golden Gusties of Gustavus Adolphus. His name has already been added to the roster. Congratulations!
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Erasing or Defacing the Name of God I came across a site tonight that referenced G-d instead of God. I've seen this before on Jewish oriented sites, but hadn't ever asked why this was done. Judaism 101 offers this reason: A way of avoiding writing a name of G-d, to avoid the risk of the [...]
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Zero Tolerance or Zero Common Sense Phyllis Schlafly wrote a column at her Eagle Forum on the common practice of Zero Tolerance at public schools. We home school our children, so this isn't an issue for us, but it does point to how much some teachers and school administrators are getting away from using their [...]
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Five Down, One to Go I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Just one more trip to go and this six weeks of near-constant travel is over! Woo-hoo! I'm back home again. I'm worn out – again. But I learned something. Cleveland, Tennessee has a few road signs that I saw [...]
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Harry, a Hobbit, and a Lion Following up on my reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, I've also read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and reread The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. I did so to [...]
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