In High School football what happens on the field between the two teams is usually less interesting than what happens off the field or during half-time. 

Last Friday night the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks hosted the Bridge City Cardinals in Sour Lake Texas. My oldest son is in the H-J drum line… Read full post »

My dad is a good man.  He's actually my step-father.  Mt biological father died when I was very young and "Pop" as I call him has been my dad since I was five years old. 

He took on the responsibility of two sons, one of them a teenager.  Filling shoes… Read full post »

So I'm sitting on my couch eating Cheetos in my underwear.  Survivor has just ended and the cute but mousey Paloma has just had her flame extinguished at the hands of the villianous Ace. 

Commercials have now ensued and I decide that I'm going to put aside my partisanship and attempt… Read full post »

Tuesday, is just such a blah day.  It is the Rodney Dangerfield of days.  So, as a lover of Limericks, a fan of Ogden Nash. Because I think Tues ought to be more distinguished. And not least because I happened to read Pretend Farmer's profile this morning and discovered that she… Read full post »

I have no fear of black cats, shattered mirrors or Friday the thirteenth.  I wear no special arcticle of clothing when my beloved San Diego Chargers play on Sunday.  I own no rabbits foot nor magic tailsman.  I am not a superstitious man.

However, let me share with you the following… Read full post »

Hurricane Ike came through my town last week.  I stayed and rode out the storm, in part because I had spent a good deal of money and missed a lot of work evacuating from Hurricane Gustaf two weeks earlier and because Ike's winds were not supposed to be that strong.  While… Read full post »

I've been beaten up pretty badly in the comments section of a blog about Obama losing the election because of race.  So I'm writing this just to clarify and be able to do it in something other than small snippets.

All the so called liberals out there (far more narrow-minded than… Read full post »

By late afternoon the August sun had boiled the soggy Mississippi air into a steaming, seathing cauldron.  It was 1968.  The Democratic Convention was in full turmoil.  The Watts riots were fresh on the hearts and minds of people everywhere but no more so than in this tiny backwater pl… Read full post »

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Consume, consume, consume!!  Yeah, I know that the culture of consumerism is the engine that drives our economy, but it's time for a revolution.  Not only is unbridled, unabridged and rabid collection of things bad for your wallet, it's bad for the world.  Every plastic container, gadg… Read full post »