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Blog Break, and a Best Hits Collection (That’s Way Too Long)

I’m gonna be taking a bit of a blog break, Buster. Between now and when I return, of course feel free to check out any of these Best Hits of mine that you might have missed:
Top 10 Qualities to Look for in a Wife
Top 10 Tips for Becoming a Better Husband
Pick-Up Lines Of Famous Men [...]

Free Bestselling Book Idea!

For 10 years now I’ve been carrying around in my out-sized head a book idea that I think is a surefire blockbuster. But I’m booked book-wise for the foreseeable future.

So finally I am now officially giving away this book idea. It’s your lucky day! Maybe. Or whatever.
Here’s the idea: A trade paperback needs to be [...]

John Notes for “Introduction to Western Philosophy”

Here are your John Notes for some of the major honchos in Western philosophy:
Socrates: Liked to call himself a “gadfly.” No one argued it. Turned unceasingly asking annoying questions into the basis for Western civilization.
Plato: Believed knowledge was more about remembering than learning. Yet founded the first college in the Western World. Been confusing people [...]

Backstage With The Blind Boys of Alabama

 

The Blind Boys of Alabama. Jimmy Carter’s on the far left. The guy who looks like he’s yawning, Bishop Billy Bowers, has a voice of such arresting intimacy it stops their shows.
 
My wife Cat and I recently went to see The Blind Boys of Alabama. The group’s lead singer, Jimmy Carter, has a voice like a [...]

The Five People Who’ll Probably Beat Me Up In Heaven

I hate to lob bad voodoo onto anything as great as going to heaven, but it occurs to me that if I ever do make it past the Pearly Gates, then sometime between St. Peter saying, “That little cloud over there with the silver lining is yours” and everyone finally giving up on my ever learning [...]

Praise God: A Politician Finally Said Something Real About Racism

Below are selections from the transcript of the speech that yesterday Barack Obama gave on race relations in America. I’m turning 50 this week. I thought I might die of old age before I ever heard anyone of Mr. Obama’s political prominence publicly say things this basic and true. Racism is the cancer of our nation. I personally thank God that someone of Mr. [...]

“Bad Word Bug Wiggles?” What the …?

In the last three days, these are what someone somewhere typed into a search engine (which then brought them here to my blog):
Bad word bug wiggles [From some kind of deranged entomologist?]
A list of testes to put a boy through to [Yikes! And two--I am so not kidding--people searched this!! Do people not know what [...]

To Single Women: Men. Do. Not. Change.

If you’re a single woman, can you think of anyone from whom you’d be better off taking relationship advice than a middle-aged man you don’t know from Adam?
You can’t? Me neither! Great!
So here’s what I’m thinking: Being a guy means (if nothing else) that I know guys. And there’s one critically true thing about guys that all women [...]

Top 10 Qualities to Look For in a Wife

My wife and I recently celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary. If you’re a single guy thinking about getting married, might I suggest, based on my experience, that you marry a woman who possesses the following 10 qualities?
1. So smart she constantly freaks you out with her humongous Absorb-O-Brain.

Upside: Hanging around with a smart person makes you [...]