My Soap Box

WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, all memories, the guns are silent. Through it all, I remember one constant, the specter of war in the mid-east. Cease fires are always being negotiated. Tensions mount as the factions up the retaliation ante for transgressions until fighting breaks out and it starts all... Sign in to see full entry.

Absolutely nothin’, Good Gawd y’all! I’m not taking a middle-of-the-road stance here, just calling it as I see it. As the middle east erupts into what many are calling world war three which many have said will be the end of times, what is the root cause of the bloodshed? Secular humanism? Sorry, not... Sign in to see full entry.

Do you know beforehand, which entries you post will get read the most? I am convinced I don’t know which ones will strike a chord or which ones will do a Titanic maneuver. I’m sure we’ve all had the experience of sweating over an opinion, writing a brilliant encapsulation of our feelings, only to... Sign in to see full entry.

Opinions, are personal views, what is the attraction? Since an opinion is a personal view, many of us seek reassurance in our views. Do other people agree with you that a certain TV program or movie sucks? Is it important to you to tell others that politician a or b (or possibly both) are nothing... Sign in to see full entry.

Do you judge your opinions based on a cloud of comments, or do you just post an opinion to get it off your chest? Do opinions have to be political, or can they be about which is your favorite ice cream, or movie? Comments on an opinion are always nice, otherwise how are you to know if you are being... Sign in to see full entry.

Much of the television fare is drivel. Some isn’t that good. But today the magic of tv allowed me to watch the astronauts as they prepared to board Space Shuttle Discovery. They didn’t seem the least bit worried about the possibility of something going wrong with one of the most powerful and... Sign in to see full entry.

We all arrive at life-changing moments everyday. Yesterday was such a day, but not for me so much. It was a bright sunny early summer morning and we were making a trip into the “city” to do some shopping and visit our sons. It was around 9:45 am and we were nearing a notorious intersection on... Sign in to see full entry.

Nothing is very important. Without nothing, we would have no concept of something. Of course, you still can’t get something for nothing, you can just get something out of nothing. One of the hardest concepts to visualize is nothing. The mind doesn’t like to deal with complete voids, that’s why when... Sign in to see full entry.

It’s a gas! There is a problem with our gasoline supply. First, it is finite, every barrel that comes out of the ground is one barrel closer to the end of the tap. Second, it seems most of the oil reserves are owned be people that are, shall we say, unstable. Solution: By adding 85% ethanol to... Sign in to see full entry.

In his newscast today, Paul Harvey poo-pooed global warming, citing one “expert” and the fact the global temperature has gone up by only one degree as his reasons to doubt what is generally accepted to be true. Al Gore would have you believe that next month, San Francisco will be underwater as the... Sign in to see full entry.