I have a lot of problems with Churches, specifically Christian Churches as these are the ones I am most familiar with. Quite frankly, most of my problems are based upon church doctrine or congregational practices that are either...
Archive - September 2020
I live in the Portland Oregon area. We are sadly surrounded by multiple wildfires getting way too near and making way too many people homeless. Sadly included with this has been what has so far been proven totally unfounded...
I always had a little bit of spam, but not a whole lot. I just marked it and went on. Over the last couple of weeks the spamming started to get out of hand. In fact, yesterday I got well over 300 spam comments that I marked. ...
I guess most of us are pretty convinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in favor on Trump. And there seems to be significant support in the belief that they are interfering in the 2020 election as well. It also...
I love History. And everyone says you can learn from History. If that were really true we wouldn’t keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over. But there is one overwhelming truism that we can learn from...
I had a thought: Suppose the smartest people the world has ever seen who can create cures for some our greatest diseases and create some of our greatest inventions may very well be alive today and living in: An American...
I wish I had the bully pulpit and the means to start this: Why don’t ALL of the religious entities in America (Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, or whatever) pick a day and march. March in favor of BLACK LIVES...
I do not care how beautiful it is. I do not care how artistic it is. If someone puts graffiti on a structure without the express permission of the owner, resident, or other authorized person: It is vandalism. How can it...
First off, I am totally and completely in favor and sympathy with the Black Lives Matter protests, both in Portland and nationwide. I live quite near downtown Portland so I have a front-row seat to the news coverage of this...
I see basically good people support Trump. Yes, they are good people despite my knee-jerk desire and willingness to lump them all into a group of stupid, naïve, racist, or terrible people. Many of them are influence by their...