Collecting My Thoughts

She never hated. Will be 107 this November.

In 1973 in an introduction to Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics , Carl F. H. Henry wrote about the concerns of the day. We were a d...

Back in the 80s I received recognition at Ohio State for my donation to their community drive/campaign (don't recall what it was called ...

Today in the Wall Street Journal I saw a very clever ad sponsored by Morgan Stanley about "food insecurity."  It was a large graph...

She's older than Bookworm, who didn't even remember what Democrats did to blacks in the South, and I'm older than she, so what d...

This man just has no class. He's like the funny hat and smart uniform dictators they elect in Haiti.  He's totally oblivious to the...

Last Tuesday I heard a very inspiring talk on our local NPR WOSU station, Ann Fisher's All Sides, with Judges Paul Herbert and Scott Van...

"Ohio State is participating in the first real-time, nationwide contest among colleges and universities to reduce electricity and water...

I know a lot of Democrats personally who seem deathly afraid of Glenn Beck's influence. You know, the guy who next to Oprah has probab...

Ohio State's Board of Trustees has changed the name of the Office of Minority Affairs to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. So what...

This article, about why the voters are so deeply dissatisfied with Obama and his policies, plays around with terms. He left out Communists ...

It's not often I have to defend President Obama, but truly, he really didn't mean he was funding AIDS--he meant he was funding the f...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which claims a membership of 10,400 congregations and 4.6 million baptized members, accepted a t...

This author writes, in part, about crap detection. I think I've found some. Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies (...

Joe Morgenstern wrote a review of the film "Wecome to the Riley's" in last week's Wall Street Journal . He didn't par...

"It killed my Dad that he worked the dirt to pay the taxes to pay the checks of teachers who told his kids that working the dirt wasn’t...

This morning in a class at church a retired teacher commented on the gay teen suicide epidemic. I told her there were no statistics to back...

You can help the unemployed and low-income while helping your local economy. As the holidays near, you'll be getting a lot of appeals f...

In today's Wall St. Journal there is a very attractive ad for women in the automotive industry. Apparently Automotive News did a featur...

Today I wrote to Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr., Inspector General of the Social Security Administration. In September he wrote (or his staf...