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This is my first Father' Day without a father. My dad passed away about a month ago and, through tears, I’m reflecting on all he taught me.
Read moreThe Bandera Bulldogs have won another game and everyone in restaurants and bars are talking about the team; maybe this year they will win the district playoffs, even go to state finals. It’s fun to talk about exciting events, even if sometimes they are not so pleasing.
Read moreThe ink is barely dry on the Inflation Reduction Act's drug pricing provisions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hasn't even finalized many of the relevant regulations.
Read moreUnregulated capitalism is the most vicious economic system on earth.
Read moreDavid Petraeus had a classified documents case. So did Hillary Clinton. Now so does Donald Trump, who is being indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith. And so does Joe Biden.
Read moreWhat is it? Where is it? A mystery. Why does it touch some and not others? Some claim to see it, others say they have felt it, and others claim to attain it. If you're charismatic, you've chased it like a carrot dangled before you. Seek first the Kingdom of God, as preached in many pulpits, and they are not wrong.
Read moreA great part of the creation, spread and perpetuation of mankind’s various systems of attitudes, myths, morals and beliefs flow from original and/or continuing influences of shamanic persuasion by charismatic showmen of many types, whose persuasive endeavors, their Shows, run gamuts from Great Truths to shams and delusions, even to mass extinctions. They are the instigators of “all” that is exalting, good, horrible and “interesting” in the human condition. Like Lot’s wife, they form great lingering pillars in our societies, histories, religions and everyday attitudes. Their influence in our lives is unavoidable, like them or not. This brace of two essays is meant to deal with the effects of several recent Showmen and Shows on our past century of calamities and despair, resurgences and hope.
Read moreMemorial Day is a time for remembering. Diverse current events have called back some old memories with particular impact and I wanted to share them before they get covered over again. Recently I saw part of a program on NatGeo or Animal Planet on the life of the elk, and an analogy came to me that seemed to fit with Memorial Day. I thought how alike are the young bull elk to those who enter our U.S. military in a time of war.
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