40 Days is in full swing!

Had a tough day? Feeling a little blue? Want to have your spirits lifted? Then check out the Blog at 40 Days for Life! If you're not familiar with 40 Days for Life check out my earlier post. As of today we are eight days into the 40, and I'm reading stories like "Abortion Center Closes". Aside from the title story are the following: A nurse walked...

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Science? I think not!

My son came home on the second day of school with a science project assigned - to give a talk about "controversial science". Of course, I began salivating immediately, as we began to discuss ideas. In the course of our discussion, it became clear that this science teacher was promoting ideas that, while politically popular, were not supported by fact....

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What is it with Obama and Embryonic Stem Cells?

As you may recall, back in August a federal judge blocked president Obama's expansion of Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR). Which got me to thinking "why does Obama love embryonic stem cells?" Contrary to garbage "news" stories like "Science, not Politics" ESCR is 100% politics. If we look at the science, there is no reason to perform ESCR. First...

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40 Days

This Wednesday, September 22nd, is the start of the next campaign of 40 Days for Life. Twice a year, for 40 consecutive days, a group of people (over 350,000) pray and fast, at home or at abortion clinics in all 50 states, plus several other countries. Our goal is ambitious - to end abortion. I got involved in the movement last fall, following the...

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Interntional Observe the Moon Night

Saturday night, September 18th 2010 is the first ever "International Observe the Moon Night". This event, hosted by a consortium of lunar and planetary organizations, aims to get the public interested in space; specifically our nearest neighbor, the moon. How can you get involved? There is a (pretty lame, I gotta say) map of events on the site. Hopefully...

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9-11

I have no dramatic stories of what happened to me or anyone else. I have no admonitions about our nation or others, no comparisons of religions or situations. I have no great words to give you on the anniversary of this event except to share a verse from a song we sang in church at a prayer service that week, that touched me.  O beautiful for...

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Things I'm glad I didn't invent

A while back I did a post on things I wish I'd thought of. Here's an idea I'm sorry anyone thought of. The idea is to make a "virtual speed bump" by making a drawing on the pavement that from a certain angle looks to the driver like an object. This has been done before, in Philadelphia, Pheonix and Peoria, and I'm told they are common in Europe. However,...

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Burning Questions

There's been quite a lot of furor about Re. Terry Jones and his plans to burn the Koran on September 11. Thought I would weigh in on the issue. First off, this is getting way more press than it deserves. But given that, what should be done about it? In my opinion, nothing. Let me preface this by saying I don't agree with what he is doing. I think it...

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When You're Holding a Hammer

No doubt many of you have heard of the high school football coach who was fired for sending an email with a link to this video: I'm not going to comment on the song or the firing. There are so many stories of overreactions to thing in the news these days that it all sort of gets lost in the shuffle. What it did make me think about was how the culture of death looks at every problem as having the same solution, for which I am coining the term CEASE (Contraception, Euthanasia, Abortion, Sterilization and Eugenics). Global warming climate change?...

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The Mercenary Life

Sometimes people send me things. Sometimes they send them expecting a response that is not the response I give. That is apparently what happened today. A friend sent me an article about the heartbreak of making difficult medical decisions. The article, however, was so shocking I doubt I'll sleep at all tonight. If you dare, read "Would you get selective...

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God didn't do it!

According to Stephen Hawking God did not create the universe. In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and...

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Where has Mike been?

I know it's been a while. I've been on vacation in Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Parks. Sorry I didn't announce ahead of time, but I don't feel comfortable announcing on the Interwebs that my house is empty and ready for burgling. It was an awesome vacation. If either of you readers are considering it, I would highly recommend it. We flew into...

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