I know that I’m getting older when I begin to notice the names of my former middle school and high school teachers filling the obituary pages of the online version of my old hometown newspaper with disturbingly increasing regularity. It shouldn’t come as such a shock; it has been four decades after all, since I … Continue reading
The Dilbert Way
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip is my hero. Having spent twenty-five years in “Corporate America” I know of no one else who so adequately captures the utter ridiculousness of life in the modern business world. I think what is most pathetic is the realization that there are some (usually at the uppermost … Continue reading
Paradox of the Chosen Ones
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV) I confess; I’m a “word … Continue reading
Just Stuff
The late George Carlin was one of my favorite comedians. His classic routine, A Place for Your Stuff, is genius. While I am far from being a hoarder or even a minor pack rat (I have no problem throwing things away) after fourteen years in the same house I do seem to have collected a … Continue reading
Colored People on TV
Long before the blockbuster movie, Black Panther blew up, earning more than $700 million at the box office in 2018 and sparking Black Panther parties (complete with regal costumes and the “Welcome to Wakanda” salutes offered in greeting) and decades before African-Americans held our heads a bit higher and walked a bit taller on the … Continue reading
Separate Sundays
“It is appalling that 11:00 A. M. on Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour in America.” When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made this statement during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, I believe that most Christians, black and white, understood it to be the activist’s way of saying that racial discrimination … Continue reading
Is Least Really Best?
With the 2020 elections just a little more than 18 months away, politicians and the general public are already squaring off to determine which side is “right” and which is “wrong”, since the concepts of compromise and a viable “middle ground” on economic and political issues seem to have drifted into complete oblivion. Online forums … Continue reading
A “God” Given Right?
Not long after a mass shooter claimed the lives of fifty worshipers in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand and wounded fifty more, I found myself applauding the government of New Zealand as they took swift and decisive action to ban semi-automatic weapons in the aftermath of that terrible tragedy (Graham-McLay, 2019). I also continue … Continue reading
12% of the Population…
When I was an undergraduate student from 1981 through 1985, the field of computer science was still evolving. My declared major was “Management Science” with a concentration in “Management Information Systems,” which in those days seemed to be little more than a rather awkward hybrid of a traditional business degree and the fledgling area of … Continue reading
Bake a Bigger Pie
It seems so ironic that the United States, a proud country with tons of “swagger” and one which describes itself, in its own national anthem no less, as “the land of the free and the home of the brave” (Key, 1814) has gradually become alarmingly skittish in response to just about everything. Perhaps this collective … Continue reading
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