“And I ran. I ran so far away. I just ran. I ran all night and day. I couldn’t get away.” – the band A Flock of Seagulls My wife is fond of blurting out, “Technology is great when it works,” whenever a store’s credit card reader goes on the fritz or the Sunday School… Read more

“I love argument. I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me. That’s not their job.” – former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher I can’t decide if I believe in having political candidate debates anymore. That’s kind of a wild take given the importance of debate in both American… Read more

“There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my hero. He’s ordinary.” – Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Pat Smear I had to fly in and out of Atlanta’s airport a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for your condolences. I have never been to the Atlanta airport without getting turned around once… Read more

“He who is quick to borrow is slow to pay.” – German proverb The odds say if you are reading this then you owe money to someone or something. An October 2023 report from the Federal Reserve stated 77 percent of American families have some form of debt, most commonly from home mortgages, credit cards,… Read more

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” – Albert Camus Have you seen Dos Equis, the Mexican beer brand, recently brought back their fictional advertising star, the Most Interesting Man in the World? Commercial snippets of the suave character’s adventures do a good job… Read more

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” – John Kenneth Galbraith It is not often we get a brand new policy topic upon which to ponder. When we do it can be fun to sit back and watch how groups and coalitions form around the issue, especially before Democrats… Read more

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once and of their shadows deep.” – William Butler Yeats In Alabama no person can be elected or appointed as a full-time state or… Read more

“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” – John 1:5 from the King James Bible I have never been a wake-up-and-seize-the-day kind of person. Wish I could be. Yet, most mornings I do manage to force myself to get up and walk our two high-energy, black Labrador retrievers through the… Read more

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how, but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.” – attributed to Joseph Stalin from the memoirs of Stalin’s former secretary Boris Bazhanov If you caught President Donald Trump’s primetime address last Thursday on the American… Read more

“… a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European, socialist sport.” – former American Football League quarterback and U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp, R-New York My Sunday School teacher brought up this Jack Kemp quote as the World Cup got underway a few weeks ago. She noted the cost… Read more