The ongoing adventures of the Thomas family at Chenoweth Farm
Sorry, hun- we need to do politics for a moment. Royal politics, that is.
I have a question, and a sincere one, for all of you out there who truly believe that hope and change must mean bigger (= trillions in 
debt) government. Please point out to me the single example worldwide of a successful, growing economy run by a king. No, I don’t mean Continue reading “My wife won’t like this”
Did you watch it? I’m serious– watch it.
If you still haven’t, you must understand that a tital wave of something is crashing over you, and you don’t even know what it is. This massive, unstoppable force will drown you unless you learn to deal with it.
One more time… watch it. Continue reading “Change”
I’m not in the habit of condemning or defending classes of people. We’re all sinners, especially the ones who blithely deny the possibility of sin, and so such generalities are bound to be wrong depending on who they are or aren’t applied to. That’s being said, I find Continue reading “Evangelical Hypocrisy and the Married Woman”
We have choices, voters of America:
Oh… I must have made a typo there, you’re thinking. He isn’t white, he’s black. No he isn’t. Does Continue reading “Inexperienced”
The title itself makes you want to skip this one, but– hold on a sec. This is actually about your financial future, how your government spends your tax dollars to educate children, whether your brother dies in the nuclear attack on the city where he lives and whether the Supreme Court becomes a tool of oppression for anyone who might be a moral conservative.
In this article, Noemie Emery makes the point that Iraq news is so good now that both McCain and Obama have a problem. For McCain, who staked his career on the success of the surge in 2007, it is that Continue reading “War & judgment”
Some of our friends send their children to the University of Louisville. You may have heard of it; they won the Orange Bowl recently. It seems that the students there can also get top scholarship input on black drag queens… courtesy of my tax dollars.
SO here’s my problem with this. Although I find gay drag disgusting, and wonder why it needs to be studied at U of L, I also have to wonder where all this is going:
I am the father of a teenager
Recently there has been much made of an alleged “pregnancy pact” at a Gloucester, Mass. high school among a number of 16 and under students. The school nurse reported “high fives” when pregnancy tests came in positive, and great disappointment when they didn’t; the Time magazine reporter who broke the story says that a recent graduate confirmed the basis for the pact (if it actually existed– there is some dispute about this) by noting that, “…They’re so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally.”
Indeed. Unconditional love is a need we all have, and a baby does provide it, at least for awhile. Nevertheless, in the wider world, and specifically in the world of liberated women, there has been much Continue reading “Fear and loathing on the seacoast”
The coming election will be about the economy, we are told, and we roll our eyes and ponder that thought as the price of gasoline begins to approach the price of gold (or so it seems). Global warming tax hikes, summer gas tax rollbacks, economic woes, housing foreclosures, even starving horses all over the west (because their owners can no longer afford to feed them)– it’s the economy, everybody!
Read this article. Yes, I know, you are Continue reading “Iraq — remember that war?”
In a few weeks the latest “Indiana Jones” movie will open at theaters. One of my memories of that series is the big, round boulders that keep careening out of some passageway at the hero, along with his nick-of-time escapes from being crushed. But how about boulders the size of the kitchen table, or your car, coming at you in real life?! Our cousin, John Graham, was in south central China the afternoon of the 7.9 earthquake, and he has an amazing story to tell: Continue reading “Danger & Heartache in China”
In recent years I have become wary of a certain situation. Whenever I find myself admonishing someone to be careful of some sin or situation, a little voice mumbles something in my head. Has this ever happened to you? The voice is mumbling “… your turn next?” Sometimes this happens before my words to the other person are even out of my mouth. “There but for the grace of God, go I” said John Bradford, and I believe it wholeheartedly.
The Governor of New York apparently Continue reading “Power corrupts- updated”