Moving status update: Another letter to Dad

Dear Dad*, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is you’ll be able to see your grandsons more than once a year because we are not moving to Saudi Arabia. The bad news is that Eddie and I are divorcing (which is OK under Deut. 22:13-21 because, well …). In [...]

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Moving day approaches: A letter to my dad

Dear Dad, I hope you and Katherine are doing well. Eddie and I are fine, except we are going to have to move. Now that President Obama is “leading a war on traditional marriage,” we are investigating other countries to inhabit. (I am so glad Rush Limbaugh pointed out Obama’s transgressions to us. You know [...]

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Let’s talk about sex, baby

I get it. I do. Rush Limbaugh makes his living by making outrageous statements and polarizing people. He thrives on controversy because that drives an increase in listeners. His livelihood depends on him being a jerk. So no one should be surprised at his latest antics, and that it took three days for him to [...]

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Three kinds of meat? Yes, please.

Lately, I’ve been interested in food wrapped in other food (see Scotch quail eggs). Tonight I made Triple Meat Surprise. Is it a surprise because it involves three meats? Not when one of those is bacon. (You know my relationship with bacon.) Is it a surprise because it is stuffed with roasted sweet peppers? No, [...]

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Reader discretion warning

Warning: This post contains graphic images and text that may be disturbing to sensitive readers. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) I don’t usually talk about politics in this blog, but I’m concerned about the Republican Party. They’ve had four years to get their act together and this is what they’ve come up with: How [...]

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Signs of the times

Mike Judge is starting to look more and more like Nostradamus; his “Idiocracy” is akin to “The Prophecies.” You need evidence that we live in a society that is shunning intellectual curiosity and social responsibility? You must not have watched any of the debt debates. There are other signs all around of our declining intellectual [...]

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Open letter to homophobes

Dear Straight Brethren (or Closeted Brethren Pretending to be Straight) Who Oppose Gay Marriage: I want to talk to you about something very important. I’d like to think that we’re all reasonable adults, and I hope you can open your mind to the points I am about to make. We both know that it really [...]

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BP stands for Bad PR

Oh, the irony in this sign at a BP station in Ohio. If I spilled anything at that station, I’d take my cue from the head of BP and I’d pretend it wasn’t that bad, blame everyone else, and then not let anyone else give me ideas on how to clean it up. Tony Hayward, [...]

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One beeellion dollars!

There was a rumor making the rounds that the Dow Jones industrial average nosedived 1,000 points in 15 minutes because some fool mistyped “billion” instead of “million” for an order to sell. It appears that wasn’t the case, but it was nice to see people pay attention to the power of the error. Even CNN’s [...]

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Gay people want to destroy the world

I may need to stop reading the paper. It’s not good for my blood pressure. This time it is not because of a Savannah Morning News error, but rather an article that is printed on page 12A. It was a small piece, but it had a large effect on me. Warning: If you are Catholic, [...]

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