My 9 year old daughter pinched the crap out of me this morning, before I could get out of bed. Seems I didn't have any green on. She had set Leprechaun traps throughout the house last night, in hopes of a ransom of gold...and was not to happy they were empty this morn.. Head to toe she was dressed in green, stick on tattoos of clovers and rainbows adorned her cheeks ( she is sooo cute ). Her lunch had to include something green ( kiwi yogurt , yuck ) and tonight we dine on cabbage and corn...

Is anyone genuinely surprised about the melee's of the past week? I have figured out what really instigated the brawl in Detroit, those professionals atheletes decided to follow in the footsteps of Dennis Rodman, obviously auditioning for the WWE, complete with illegal moves, submission holds, and assaults on rabid fans. They could not possibly have lost control in mass such as they did without some prior rehearsal. The rave reviews of their proformance were all but mi...

In light of the recent ACLU attacks on Boy Scouts, and the ordering of the cessation of military support for the Boy Scouts, I felt it appropriate to share the text of a speech I recently gave at a Scouting event. I saw a bumper sticker at the Camporee this weekend that really made me think, it said, “ America is returning to the values that Scouting never left”. When you consider that exit polls from the Presidential election indicated that “Moral Values” were a high priority for voters,...

What is the purpose of wearing clothes 5 sizes too big? Not only that but unlaced boots, tee shirts that hang below the knees, and jackets that resemble sleeping bags? As a child, I recall my mother buying school clothes that may have been a little large, this in order to compensate for growth, but what I have seen as of late is beyond thrift, it's absurd. I have heard that these fashions are based on Prison Chic, and I have seen them displayed in various Hip Hop/Rap videos, but why?...

Sometimes, when I consider my lifes direction, I question why I didn't go to law school. I have just completed my second masters, this time it was a Liberal Arts degree in Humanities ( useless, except for Jepardy Trivia ) the first was the prerequisite MBA ( makes bankers smile when applying for business loans ) yet I fumble with the thoughts of a JD. The issues of liability in business are fraught with the implications of financial demise, the largest expense in this situation is legal...

From the comments on my last post I have concluded that poverty ( as defined by governmental agencies ) is nothing more than job security for the thousands of human services organizations that exist to prolong the situation, not solve it. If they solved the problems they wouldn't have a purpose. It is why our schools are inadiquate. To continue the cycle. It's why entitlement programs promote unwed mothers. To produce another generation for the cycle. It's why most Real Estate investor...

Ant and the Grasshopper By Jack Schitt ORIGINAL VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and...

OK, Katrina has passed, Ophelia crepted by my part of the world, and Rita is dead-heading for Texas, here is what you should have already done if you're in a hurricane prone area; GET OUT !!!! GO AWAY !!! COME AGAIN SOME OTHER DAY... If by some logic you either have not left, or cannot leave, here is some very friendly advice; If you are within 40 miles of the expected landfall, Pray, 'cause nothing I say that follows will help you in the eye of the storm. If you are within ...

I submitted this a while back, thought it was still topical.This article was on my local papers web site, after reading Philo's recent article I felt it was germane; Ministers Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Washington, D.C.'s Mayor Anthony Williams and others recently met to discuss plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the October 1995 Million Man March. Whilst reading about the plans, I thought of an excellent topic for the event: how not to be poor. Avoiding lon...

I'm taking a course in Middle Easten History, for points and giggles, I'm posting some of my responses here.. They are at least topical, if not germaine. It will take generations to bring about the acceptance of Western Tolerance. Keys to this will include continued military intervention, concluded with swift democratic reform. Another key to normalization is the acceptance of both Israel and Palestine. This will remove the hackneyed stance of the region, and eliminate a political ra...

This is one of the many essays I've had to write in my latest class ( REL 501 Islam ), been so busy with school and work I haven't had the time to post, skim'd thru today and saw the fatwah issue developing, so, I thought I'd offer my head as another target ( safety in numbers, eh? ) My reading has included the English synopses of the Koran provided in our student recourses, “Islam, The Straight Path”-Esposito, and “A Concise History of the Middle East”, -Goldschmidt, as well as web based art...

This story has more than two legs, but another shoe has dropped. It seems an attorney for one of the players has time dated photo's of the aledged vicitm, bruised, scratched, and rather intoxicated, upon her arrival to the party. The time dating puts her condition existing hours before her reported rape occurred. Hmmm? I wonder if the the media is concentrating on the right "victim(s)"? Can you say,"Tawanna Brawley"?