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A Different Kind of Party

It’s funny because Linus makes the grave reading of Luke 2 for Charlie Brown and says, “That’s what it’s all about, Charlie Brown,” and we feel like something really important® has been said by Dollie Madison cakes and Coca-Cola. But Luke 2 isn’t in a vacuum. The matter of what happened on the night in question in the city of David when there was no room in the inn is not really about anything – unless there is something more to this child than a birth in poverty into an indifferent world. Continue Reading »

Lonely at Christmas

The older I get the lonelier I get at Christmas.All my grandparents are gone now, so I will not eat Granny’s pie, see Nana’s Christmas play, or hear either Papaw tell a story. Aunt Karen will not help me direct this years play and Uncle Roddy will not make me laugh, because they have . . . . Continue Reading »

Marijuana Anarchy: Pot in Every Chicken

The medical marijuana movement is being increasingly corrupted to the point that pot is being made generally available, with people using it to get high scurrilously coopting the real health needs of sick people as the pretext for gaining access to their drug.  Now, marijuana-laced food is to . . . . Continue Reading »

David Wayne Health Update

David won’t point it out over here, so I’m going to do it for him.  For those who don’t know, he has been struggling with cancer for over a year.  Over at his first blog, he has posted his most recent health update:I liken myself to an old car in winter that’s . . . . Continue Reading »

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