sitting in one place for too long is bad for you.  Maybe the idea of  Orthodox temples without pews was actually ahead of its time?

on a local radio station doing an interview with comedian Carlos Mencia.”There are people out there in the world that are so hungry they look at our Food Channel like we look at dirty movies…”

A rough quote, but laden with truth.

we are the givers of aid and technological support but the people of Haiti are our teachers in faith and the meaning of life.

65 above zero:
Floridians turn on the heat.
People in Minnesota plant gardens.

60 above zero:
Californians shiver uncontrollably.
People in Minnesota sunbathe.

50 above zero:
Italian & English cars won’t start.
People in Minnesota drive with the windows down.

40 above zero:
Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.
People in Minnesota throw on a flannel shirt.

35 above zero:
New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
People in Minnesota have the last cookout before it gets cold.

20 above Zero:
People in Miami all die.
Minnesotans close the windows.

Zero:
Californians fly away to Mexico .
People in Minnesota get out their winter coats.

10 below zero:
Hollywood disintegrates.
The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door.

20 below zero:
Washington DC runs out of hot air.
People in Minnesota let the dogs sleep indoors.

30 below zero:
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Minnesota get upset because they can’t start the Snow-mobile.

40 below zero:
ALL atomic motion stops.
People in Minnesota start saying….’Cold enough fer ya?’

50 below zero:
Hell freezes over.
Minnesota public schools will open 2 hours late

you shouldn’t work in an emergency room according to Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley.

Because we don’t want any of that “Christian” compassion in our health care system.

just bite your tongue and start urging whatever followers you have left to find a way to help the people of Haiti.

Perhaps you,  and they, can start here

I believe I spend more time in front of flickering screens then in the sun. That can’t be good but that’s where the world seems to have disappeared.

about the line between duty and dreams, the things we wish we could do and those that life has somehow attached to us.

Part of what makes a person mature is the realization that the world is as it is and the lofty aspirations of youth somehow always seem to get grounded by the realities of life. Yet the aspirations, the dreams, never seem to leave. For the most part the business of life drowns out their whisper but every so often when stillness comes they can be heard again reminding us of the passage of time, of things left undone, and dreams unfulfilled.

Such is a broken world, a world where yearning never ceases even in the waves of the mundane and people with more time behind then ahead remember what they were when everything was new. It will be a half a century for me this year, God willing, and still the fire has not died away…

was right. There may have been more than a few people who voted for Barack Obama not in spite of racism but because of it. I wonder how many people simply assumed that Obama, as Sen. Reid put it, a light skinned African American without a “negro” speech pattern was more intelligent and capable than he was simply because he didn’t look or sound like a rapper thus defying our stereotypes?

Did our  rehearsed images of African Americans combined with then Sen. Obama’s apparent difference  disable some people’s ability to critically evaluate him? An interesting thought.

roundly criticized by the shamans of the mainstream media for even suggesting that Tiger Woods try Christianity as an approach to getting his life back together speaks for himself.