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Get this: Dads are essential to kids. According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, kids who grow up without dads are more likely to grow up poor, drop out of school, end up in jail and encounter numerous other struggles in life than kids who grow up with dads do. More ... Here's to all of the great fathers out there who consistently put their families first. This Father's Day, instead of a gift purchased in a store like a tie or a new ratchet set let's return the favor and spend a little time just hanging around good old Dad. More ... How many times have we hated that one-word question, repeated over and over again by a youngster wanting to know the reasons the grass is green and the sky is blue? All too often, we adults have had a few questions of our own, more complex of course. I’ve decided to provide you a list, in no particular order. More ... Two Christian preachers were stopped from handing out Bible tracts by police officers because they were in a Muslim neighborhood in England. According to British news reports, the preachers were told by a Muslim community support police officer in Birmingham that attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity is a hate crime. More ... Some time ago, the State of Florida's Division of Historical Resources issued a lengthy, useful, report and created a website dealing with the status and preservation of historic cemeteries. They were not alone in their concern: the State of South Carolina, and I suspect many other states, have issued like-minded reports and taken upon the serious issue of stewardship of old and abandoned cemeteries. More ... I'm a little worried about John McCain. Not simply because of that nasty looking marsupial pouch stapled to his upper neck, but because he seems determined to wrong headedly barrel down a path more dangerous than slaloming downhill blindfolded on a black diamond course with barbed wire gates at night. Let me explain. More ... "Poll after poll has been showing it in recent years. Nearly 70 percent of respondents to an Associated Press poll said people are ruder than they were 20 or 30 years ago." More ... An old rule of journalism worth noting is: avoid leaking your own life into a story. That would be blogging. Old school says that there is supposed to be a firewall between the rest of the world we write about and what's going on with us from day to day. We may tell a small anecdote to illustrate a point but we aren't the story. More ... |
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