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In C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters,” a demon named Screwtape concludes the work with a toast given at a sort of banquet for chief tempters and gentledevils. The monologue is rendered from the point-of-view of an adversary of the human race and illumines something noteworthy about what is needed for Democracy to fail in the …
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Basketball, drugs and second chances don’t necessarily occur and they most certainly don’t necessarily occur in that order. Drugs generally get all the attention during Red Ribbon Week, a national anti-drug campaign formalized in 1988 three years after the murder of its inspiration DEA agent Enrique (Kiki) S. Camarena. But as I talk to athletes, …
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According to a an online source called The Phrase Finder, the best tips in horse racing came from the inner circle of trainers and stable lads. If you wanted to know which horse stood the best chance of winning a race, you’d better ask someone who’d spent time with the horses often and recently. That …
I never thought myself the type to say things like, “Kids these days don’t respect their elders.” If you use that phrase or the word elder more than once a week, you’ve probably officially moved out of the young category. But whether you say it or not, I think it all the time being a …
A crisis of faith begins when your view of the world is challenged or totally undone. But every crisis resolves like any good short story. The problem for most of the 6 billion plus on the planet is that we only like resolution when it’s to our liking. Or maybe I underestimate people. In any …
Continue reading “Suprise Endings”
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Back talk got me in trouble more than I can remember as a kid. I wouldn’t label it mouthin’ off because then what would you readers think of an unruly, nappy headed boy who grew up to become a muse of the abstract. Who’d listen to that guy? But spankings and well deserved reprimanding aside, …
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I had a dream about a car last night and it looked a lot like the one pictured on the left. If you know your cars, you know that’s a 1971 Gran Torino GT. Long story short, it’s got a big engine and one version of this rocket does 0-60 mph in 6 seconds. I’m …
