So the 31st came… and no stuff. He’d disconnected for the holidays, and I only learned of his holiday extension the day before. He said he’d probably move in the next week. OK. You’re worrying me. The next week comes. Saturday, January 6, I’m told of his good fortune… a...
And I asked him I said, Hey, Dad, I remember once did you ever kill anybody? He goes, Yeah, and that wasn't the end of it. It was like I did. And then I said, how? And he said, Well, I was the mechanic for the jeeps and all ...
leaders of the people out of Egyptian bondage, and once in Judges iii. 4, where it is said that certain of the native races were left in Canaan, “to prove Israel by them, whether they would hearken to the commandments of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses...
I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening...
i said, ‘eight grade? cot damn.’ she’s like, ‘but no, you have to meet this girl. she just came off the apollo but don’t hold that against her.’ she didn’t win the apollo. back in those days, when something came on television you had to catch it in that moment. so ...
Would you vote for someone who said she wants to shrink the size of your SS check and replace the Social Security Ponzi scheme with something sustainable? Hmm. You realize there aren’t nearly enough young people at the bottom of the SS pyramid to fund all you Boomers at the top. ...
Go to Heaven is That You Have Been Driven Out of Your Mind by Alice Walker “the only reason you want to go to heaven is that you have been driven out of your mind (off your land and out of your lover’s arms)” Unto the woman God sa...
Christ said the Pharisees were guilty of the murder of Abel and all righteous blood from the beginning of the world. (Mat. 23:35) Why? Because the Pharisees persecuted righteousness. Had they been present in the time of Abel, they would have murdered Abel. Thus, according to Christ, ...
The truth is that if you don’t do stupid laws and regulations — say, Oregon’s forbidding the pumping of one’s own gas (Will no one think of all the now very old gas station attendants on the corner, with a sign saying “please give” in all other states?) — and don’t swat...
It seems to me that people are burdened. Then, while watching the Olympics last night there was the commercial with that old Crystal Gayle song. Elaine said, “I Do Not Like that commercial, it’s so sad.” Yes it is, but it seems like an honest depiction of a lot of people’s li...