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UP WITH SECULARISM
The Merriam-Webster dictionaries that we have in this house describe faith as a belief not supported by fact. When this country was founded, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the rest knew that faith had to do with subservience to the Anglican Church which had as its head the King of England. And so…
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THE WRATH OF GRAPES
Those of you who shop for produce may have noticed over the years that grapes never come from Arab or Muslim countries. The reason for this is fairly simple. The petroleum reserves in those countries are so great that they tend to rise to the surface, which proves infertile to the grape-growing industry. And so…
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SEX, SEX AND MORE SEX
It may seem unseemly for a man of my advanced years to write an essay about sexual matters. On the other hand, it also seems to me that I had no choice in the matter. If my mother were to reprimand me for having thoughts about ungodly matters, I would be forced to tell her,…
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A LITTLE MORE OF THISA AND A LITTLE MORE OF THATA
Ben Bernie was the subject of a previous essay distributed recently. Bernie was a very popular band leader who led an orchestra from the 1920s through the 1950s. You may recall that when his orchestra pleased him, he would say, “Yousa, yousa, yousa!” And when he would introduce a variety of songs, he would call…
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
In a recent essay, I deplored the fact that the tags were missing from the backs of my recently purchased tee shirts. This resulted in my putting the shirts on backwards about 35 to 40% of the time. So I wrote to the president of the Nordstrom company and told him that whoever made the…