I was listening to the radio yesterday on the way home from the office. I heard a song playing that I've been hearing for several years. It's by Joe Diffie and is called "Third Rock from the Sun". It's a song about how, even when everything looks chaotic and out of control, if you look close enough, there's "a chain of events. Cause and effect." All of life is this way. It seems that everything going on around us is random and out of control. If you look deep enough, you can see the ...

It seems to me that there are as many reasons to be for or against abortion as there are people on the planet. Everyone has their reasons. What I'd like to do in this article is to explain MY reasons for why I'm against abortion. It all started in November of 1974. Wait, check that. It all started about 9 months earlier. When my wife's mother conceived her. See, in the year after Roe v. Wade, her mother could've aborted her, without any legal repercussions. Instead, in November of...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There. Now that we've got THAT out of my system... I really HATE cities. And not in the "it's really a minor dislike" type of hate. Loathing. Detestation. I had to deliver some papers to a lawyers office on the north side of Richmond (VA) yesterday afternoon. I was given the papers (finally) at around 4:10 yesterday and told that they had to be in the lawyers office before 5. And it's a 45 minute d...

Reading a recent comment by MasonM, I realized something that's been tickling the edges of my awareness for a while now. The gentleman is a dying breed. I say they should be put on the endangered species list.I am just a plain spoken, Southern boy from north Alabama. I was raised to be a gentleman. To me, a gentleman exemplifies the following: Courtesy Politeness Respect for others Respect for self Respect for Authority Humility Gentleness A gentleman ...