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MUST WE ALWAYS BE ENTERTAINED?
I hope that I do not have to establish my bona fides with respect to music. I was raised in the suburban area of a musical town where there were symphonies, operettas, a grand opera, and recitals of all kinds. The name of the town was, of course, St. Louis. It may not rank with…
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A NEW DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT
In the last week of July, Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, made a trip through Southeast Asia, winding up in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. All of this was done before she came home to attend the wedding of her daughter. While Mrs. Clinton was in Islamabad, it is reported that she gave the…
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PEPSI COLA HITS THE SPOT
The cast of characters in this essay is humungous. I have no idea what humungous means, but youngsters use that term and it is a lot better than some of their other expressions. Now on to the characters. First there were my playmates, Billy Seyfried, Timoteo Marcellan, and Charlie Baldridge. Beyond those playmates, there is…
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“I AM NOT A PERFECT MAN”
“I AM NOT A PERFECT MAN” BISHOP EDDIE LONG PASTOR OF THE NEW BIRTH MEGA-CHURCH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 I do not pretend to be a historian of the relationship between the Church and the affairs of man. But in my lifetime there have been three or four occasions when the proclivity…
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MAKING PROGRESS
Let us assume that I am an historian and that the date is in the year of 2510. If my arithmetic is correct, that would be about 500 years from now. I believe it would be fair to say that such an historian might conclude that the times in which we are currently living were…
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LEVI AND K-ROD
The dramatis personae of the following essay will cause historians to rate it as a tour de force or as a complete omnibus essay. The dramatis personae include Levi Johnston, the Wasilla, Alaska stud who impregnated Sarah Palin’s daughter, and Sarah Palin’s husband who claims Eskimo ancestry in his parentage. Moving in a southward direction,…
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JUST LIKE ME
Article VI of the United States Constitution provides that there shall be no religious test required of anyone aspiring to work for the United States government. This applies to any office from local dog catcher to the presidency. For example, in 1942, I sought a position as a private in the United States Army. There…
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GOING INTO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
This essay should have been written a number of years ago. It records my resentment and anger at the imposition of daylight savings time. I hope that there are others who are as dismayed as I am about the imposition of daylight savings time. In my limited field of acquaintances, no one has expressed an…
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THE DOCTRINE OF UP
This essay, which I hope you will read, has its genesis in a remark made to me by a nursing aide who attends to my needs at night. This lady, who was born in Ghana, said to me, “Would you like for me to cover you up?” She could have said, “Would you like for…