There are so many phrases from our youth that just seemed to vanish in the mist. Wearing Your Sunday Best As children, many of us remember polishing our shoes on Saturday night so they would be shiny on Sunday morning. We wore suits and ties and dresses and flowery hats to church. Why? Because Dad said we were to show respect to God by looking our best when we visited his house. Dad probably didn’

It seems like everywhere you go, some old person is talking about how much better it was in the old days. The specific philosophy regarding procreation and child rearing seems to be, “They ain’t making young people the way they used to.” Let me explain. Yes they are. Actually, the procedure hasn’t changed… ever. It is recorded in Genesis that the only difference between making young people today,

It is a quote, and a misquote from St. Paul. He never said that money is the root of all evil. What the apostle actually said was that the love of it was (1 st  Timothy 6:10). OK, Sunday School is over and it’s time to accept the expanded truths of that statement. Any consultant will tell you that you can’t get elected without money. Then you have to get re-elected, which means more money. Plus, y

Some years back Dick Butkus, the great Chicago Bears linebacker was asked, “Do you intentionally try to hurt people?” His answer: “No I don’t try to hurt people, I try to stop the play. If I hurt someone, it’s just a bonus.” People can and will argue until the end of time about whether Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all time. Reasonable people can disagree but it is a fact that he l

“Four score and seven years ago…” so begins possibly the greatest speech from a President of the United States… ever! There is, of course, the “day that will live in infamy” speech from Franklin Roosevelt which occurred as America prepared to enter into WWII (the war to end all wars, for now.) And lest we forget how about the “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” spee

George Bernard Shaw once said, “If you laid all the economists end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” There is no doubt that is absolutely true. Most of the time what an economist says is not meant to reflect the actual way things are, but what it says in his latest book. There was one economist, it is said, that over a career correctly predicted fourteen of the last 3 recessions. Impress

The older some of us get the more often we are told that we are cynical. Recently, it has become more and more obvious that although it can be taken it as such, it is possible that they don’t mean it as a compliment. What you may hear as, “My, aren’t you observant and perceptive?” may be a misinterpretation of one’s intended meaning. When a friend says something about global warming (or climate ch