Collecting My Thoughts

Let's have a "conversation" about white privilege and racism on the Left. It's obvious that when suburban white teens are ...

February 5, 2016 – The Broward County Sheriff’s Office received an anonymous call reporting that the shooter had threatened on Instagram to ...

"Reporters who attempted to approach the West Palm Beach home of ex-Broward County Sheriff's Office Deputy Scot Peterson were repor...

8 U.S. Code § 1324 (a) (1) (A) (iii) Any person who, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, o...

"Recently, NIH-funded researchers discovered a new class of antibiotics, called malacidins, by analyzing the DNA of the bacteria living...

The mother of my friend Melissa (I met her 13 years ago through blogging and now we're friends on Facebook) died recently. She. . . ...

"Just weeks before the call to the FBI tipline, Mr. Cruz himself called 911 after a violent episode at the house where he was living. P...

Leviticus 19 12 You shall not swear falsely by my name, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD. 13 You shall not exploit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SW_545NjPQ I don’t like her sing-songy voice (a problem with young people) and I don’t think you should s...

I took "How to teach English spelling" with me to the gym today and walked slowly enough on the treadmill so I could read the firs...

Today I was reading the Lutheran Bible Translator's Messenger newsletter. The Kalanga (Botswana) full Bible is just about ready--finaliz...

Of all the names you hear in connection with the Parkland shooting--Trump bears no responsibility, in fact within the last few weeks he'...

I don't watch a lot of TV--my tolerance for violence and inane "journalists" is low. However, I can hear from the living room,...

I used to think that if you learned a few rules for the exceptions, and memorized a few words that made no sense at all, English spelling wa...

"NRA has contributed $4.2 million to current members of Congress since 1998. But Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest #abortion se...

I’ve dropped the on-line class from Coursera, Gut Microbiome.  It was just sort of creepy, although very interesting.  I’d finished the firs...

There are a lot of "what ifs" in the Plantland high school shooting. What if the shooter had been black--people would said he was ...

There's just nothing like being from a small town. Someone on Facebook asked: "Does anyone who lives or lived in Mt. Morris remembe...

According to Washington Post: "The [FL social services] investigation [in Sept. 2016] detailed several unnerving behaviors from Cruz, i...