mike's common sense

This post was originally published back in August of 2008 in an alternative universe. It is re-published for your enjoyment. Here we go again. After narrowly skirting the last two hurricanes, we now have three more knocking on our door step. Hurricane Hannah, is expected to slide past us here in... Sign in to see full entry.

Well, I just got home from my vacation. I spent much of the week checking out new acts at The Rochester Jazz Fest. I had a real good time, and it was very enlightening. I saw a lot of great acts, and learned about some new rising stars. This post is to tell you about one of them. When I was a young... Sign in to see full entry.

When I was a young boy, whenever I got into a spat with one of my brothers, we'd start calling each other names. My mother would break us up by saying, "Don't call people names; it takes one to know one." It didn't mean much to me back then, but the older I get, the more I realize that she was... Sign in to see full entry.

When I was a kid, I really got into MAD Magazine. Never got into Cracked or the others of that genre, but I really got into MAD. One of my favorite parts of that mag was when they wrote parody songs to popular songs of that time. You would sing their funny lyrics to the tune of that well known song.... Sign in to see full entry.

Jesus said," Love God with all your heart, and soul, and love thy neighbor, as thy self." With our world in such sad shape, it is obvious, that we all are feeling pretty crappy about ourselves. Think about it, it should be natural to love yourself, you fight to stay alive everyday; but how many of... Sign in to see full entry.

Truth is something we all think we have, or are looking for. Blessed is the searcher of truth, for sooner or later he will find it. As mentioned previously, there is one universal truth, but due to the fact that we are all living in different states of consciousness, at different levels, we all are... Sign in to see full entry.

What is truth? Truth is something different for each person. How can that be? Isn’t there one universal truth that applies to everyone? Yes. There is one universal truth that applies to everyone; however to recognize that truth one would have to be in the soul awareness. Unfortunately most of us... Sign in to see full entry.

When I was young, my brothers and I used to watch TV... a lot of TV! My mother would have to kick us out of the house to get us to play. My parents called the TV "the boob tube". I guess their reasoning was, if you watch too much TV, you would grow up to be a boob. Back in the 60's "boob" was a... Sign in to see full entry.

A lot of people are movie fanatics. Movie fanatics love to tell you that they came upon one of their favorite movies while channel surfing. Then they will proceed to tell you how they were forced to sit and watch the rest of the movie (even though they had seen that movie 47 times before. I can... Sign in to see full entry.

I have a special post for you today. Thanks to my pig Wilbur having a temper tantrum today, knocking over a small bureau on my patio, I have been reconnected with my magic 8 ball. You know what I mean don’t you? Yeah, the 8 ball we all played with when we were kids. I love the magic 8 ball; it... Sign in to see full entry.