The Modern Amish

For anyone who didn’t know, Saturday was technically St. Patrick’s Day. And I’ve got a big beef with it. Not that the Catholic Church moved it. Not that what St. Patrick is credited with is most likely a fable. No, my complaint is why do we only celebrate one St. Patrick? There’s so many important [...]

One of the few things I don’t like about movies is trying to find ones that I want to watch.  I’m fairly picky because the majority of films made today substitute profanity for actual dialogue.  In other words they can’t think of a good line in a given situation, so they just drop an f-bomb in.  Or [...]

So the allegation has been made that Tom Cruise is not the father of Suri.  That indeed, she is the daughter of the late L. Ron Hubbard.  I’ll leave all the inane chatter on the social ramifications of this for TomKat to others who have lesser minds & no lives.  But as for me, here [...]

As we’ve already established on this blog, I don’t just go along with the crowd.  I march to beat of a different drum, take the road less traveled, put peanut butter in my chili, etc.  In no way do I think this makes me better than anyone else.  But I do feel it gives me [...]

Sometimes in life, you simply stumble into greatness.  You’re not looking for it.  You’re on no mission.  You’re simply strolling along life’s highway, trying to stay between the ditches when BOOM!!!  You get gobsmacked in the chops by something which changes you forever.  Something that alters the very fabric of your being & leaves an [...]

So Lynne Spears’s parenting book has been put on hold.  Wow!  What a surprise!  Almost as surprising as thinking anyone greenlighted this idea.  And based on the way many teenage girls are dressing & acting right now, I suspect whatever she’s doing is already in play with a lot of parents.  As far as bad ideas [...]