Category Archives: General

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

This of course is from Hamlet.  The one I’m thinking from is also from England, and is no lady, but then he isn’t a man either.  Or at least not what God intended man to be.  Likewise, when I don’t … Continue reading

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Beyond Race

In 1989 tennis player Michael Chang won the French Open.  The crowd cheered the Chinese-American player until….

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Presidential Politics and Closed Communion

I received two interesting pieces of mail on the same day.  One was from Houston Lutheran’s Life; the other was another LCMS church’s newsletter.  They both had startling information.

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Unverifiable

I have been told the following Luther quote is unverifiable.

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Human Limits – What Can Your Body Take?

That was the title of a September 2009 article in National Geographic.  The most remarkable thing I found in this article was that they considered a 150 pound man to be the average.  That’s probably the average 5th grader.

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First Use of Ribbons to Show Support?

“On Saint Patrick’s Day in 1946 six Nipponese defense counsel appeared at the captial’s war-crimes tribunal wearing green lapel ribbons…” (American Caesar, 474)

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Stamping on C-4

C-4 is a plastic explosive I was trained to use.  You could take a piece of this white doughy substance and safely heat your C-Rations.  But if you tried to put that fire out by stamping on it, the resulting … Continue reading

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The Sound of Silence

I don’t think Simon and Garfunkel were praising the sound of silence in their song by that name.  After all, they have the line “Silence like a cancer grows.”  They don’t appear to praise silence; I do.

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Horsemanship

Now there’s a word you don’t hear every day.  I don’t know why it’s not horsewomanship since it seems to me that women are fonder of horses and better with them than men are.   But then again the “Horse whisper” … Continue reading

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Not That Intelligent

I finally put my finger on what bothers me about Intelligent Design: the argument that the design of creation points to or even proves the existence of a creator.  What bothers me is it’s not that intelligent.

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