Even though I am using the Internet right now as I write the blog and even though as a computer engineer I owe much of my living bec...

    Back in the 1970's an ad-campaign by the UNCF (United Negro College Fund) had a very simple and catchy phrase: Because a mind is ...

    There are 4 (well 5 actually since one is a conjugate of 2 words) words that we seem to have gone out of style in our normal dialect tha...

      Yesterday, Starbucks announced their new "race together" campaign in which they encourage their baristas to engage with th...

    What comes to mind when you think of an Ambassador?     Some common attributes: Lives in a foreign country Speaks their language (i...

   Okay, I admit it.  I am a die-hard New England Patriots fan.  So those of you who aren't will be quick to go on to your next blog, bu...

     Lately a lot of attention has been placed on the air pressure of footballs.   A subject that normally would bore the crap out of you is...

      My Uncle Carl, who was a farmer, once said, "Cow manure doesn't stink until you rake it up!".   His simple proverb simp...

     Freedom is constantly under attack by those around us.  When you think about it freedom is a scary concept.  It requires you to surre...

   There's an old saying that says, "Don't get into arguments with people who buy ink by the barrel".       This adage ...

   Here is a video of Congressman Trey Gowdy questioning an immigration official about the President's new executive-order/law on immig...

      A friend of mine was working as a cashier in a Walmart store when he saw a family come through with 2 carts loaded with every imaginab...

   Karl Marx once referred to religion as "the opiate of the masses" because to him it placated the people to not rise up in viole...

   Any time someone wants to point out the "obvious" they sometimes make a reference to an old riddle that says, "Who is buri...

    The President has declared:  TIME IS UP!   Like a teacher timing his students during an exam, his congressional-egg-timer on his desk ha...