Texas 17, Virginia 16

Yes I know this ticket stub has seen better days, it suffered at the hands of an overzealous gate person.
We recently moved and as it sometimes happens you find stuff you forgot you had.
I found a bag of old ticket stubs from events I attended in years past. I scanned them and hope to [...]

Time Subject to Change

My then girlfriend (and current wife) and I bought tickets to the above game. We were hoping to watch Barry Bonds break Mark McGwire’s single-season home run record.
What we or anyone else could not have anticipated were the horrific events which transpired on the scheduled date of the game and thus emphasized the ticket’s [...]

Colleen Bellotti, meet C.S. Lewis

From CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity
The relations of the family to the outer world-what might be called its foreign policy-must depend, in the last resort, upon the man, because he always ought to be, and usually is, much more just to the outsiders.
A woman is primarily fighting for her own children and husband against the rest [...]

Everlast Lyric and those Judgmental Christians

And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walkin’ through the doors
They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore. –Everlast from “What it’s Like”
This song by former House of Pain member Everlast was huge back in my college days. No doubt [...]

The Boston Red Sox, “World Champions of the World!”

Ho-hum, so another big payroll MLB team cruises to yet another World Series title. After winning 2 World Series in 4 years, I don’t think the Sox can be classified under the “lovable loser” category in sports taxonomy. The Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, and Houston Astros still qualify though.
Truth be told, I became [...]

Mike Adams, former Atheist, on Understanding Atheism

Professor Mike Adams wrote a column titled, “Understanding Atheism” in which he makes good points.
Adams, himself a former atheist, this from the column,
I declared myself an agnostic in 1983 and stayed that way until I declared myself an atheist in 1992. The road from Christianity to atheism and back to Christianity was – with my [...]

Atheists, Agnostics, and Arrogance a match made in Heaven?

An atheist/agnostic I converse with on a regular basis has accused me and other Christians of self-importance on the following grounds: to think that God (if He even exists) would care about you is arrogant (as to how we got this idea that we ought not to be arrogant came about well, that’s the [...]

Texas beats Nebraska, again

When I was a student at THE University of Texas, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were a perennial college football powerhouse. When the Big XII conference formed prior to the 1996 season, us Longhorn fans dreaded the yearly drubbings the Huskers were going to lay on our school’s team.
Well as it happened, UT faced the Huskers [...]

How to Avoid Getting Shot by the Police

There are people who find it difficult to avoid getting shot by the cops so I will post a letter from a Houston Chronicle reader as a public service announcement.
Six Rules for Staying Alive
As a retired homicide detective, I can advise that if a person doesn’t want to be killed by a police officer, follow [...]

Mexicans and the Color of their Skin

My folks have a neighbor who is Cambodian. Ever since they have lived in that house they have referred to this neighbor (not directly) as El Chino (The Chinese Man), though they know full well that he is not from China.
This is a phenomenon common to Mexicans, namely referring to any person from the [...]