In recent years, there has been much print about, What is an Evangelical? It’s largely because Donald Trump became president partly due to his large political support from evangelicals. That was quite ironical since Trump seemed to be anything other than a Christian or an evangelical. I believe that Trump has used evangelicals for his political purpose. And one way he did it was to choose the very evangelical Mike Pence as his vice president. About 25% of all adult... Read more
Just minutes ago, Jason Kokrak won the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, Texas, by three strokes for his third win on the PGA Tour. He came from ten strokes behind halfway in the tournament, thus after 36 holes. He caught fire the back nine today, birdying four holes in succession to overtake leader Scottie Scheffler, who bogeyed holes 10, 11, and 14. Scheffler tied for second with Kevin Tway, son of PGA Championship... Read more
Viktor Hovland–a twenty-four year old Norwegian and graduate of Oklahoma State University–just shot 67 for a 23-under par total of 261 to win by four strokes over Carlos Ortiz the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. It was Hovland’s third win on the PGA Tour. Justin Thomas finished one stroke back of Ortiz for third place. Hovland became the first Norwegian to win on the PGA Tour when he won its Puerto Rico Open in... Read more
The Atlanta Braves just beat the Houston Astros to win the World Series in Major League Baseball (MLB). But America’s National Pasttime is taking heat for taking too long to play the game. During the regular season, games are taking an average of 3 hours and 10 minutes to play. But in these post-season playoffs games, some of them lasted over 4 hours. Yet, back in the 1980s, regular season games averaged 2 hours and 33 minutes, which is... Read more
Yesterday, Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his administration began plans to build more than 3,000 additional units in 25 of the 130 Jewish settlements in the West Bank in further defiance of international law of settling its own people in what the United Nations, of which Israel is a member, deems “occupied territory.” Most non-Israeli authorities who have been involved in trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict agree with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that such further Jewish settlement... Read more
Today, the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper responded to the Republican Party’s refusal to support the subpoena of ex-President Trump’s advisor Steve Bannon issued by the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot. Bannon has refused to appear before the committee to testify, saying Trump told him not to by claiming executive privilege. The Democrat-controlled House voted on whether or not to charge Mr. Bannon with “criminal contempt” for refusing to oblige to this congressional... Read more
Tragedy struck a Hollywood film set this week that involved leading actor Alec Baldwin. This low-budget, Western movie titled “Rust” was being filmed near Santa Fe, New Mexico, on a ranch. At about 1:00 PM last Thursday, Mr. Baldwin fired a supposed blank from a pistol that he drew from his holster, but instead a bullet discharged from it and fatally struck cimatographer Halyna Hutchins. The projectile then passed through her chest and struck film director Joel Souza who was... Read more
In golf, a duffer is a lousy golfer. Many decent golfers don’t want to play golf with duffers. They think about how their golf game is affected by the golfers they play golf with, and if they play golf with duffers, they think they will play like a duffer. Or, to apply this idea to life in general, if you hang with low lifes, you’ll become one yourself. Conversely, many golfers think that if they play golf with golfers who... Read more
Elon Musk to Warren Buffett: “If you want to get rich, you should buy Tesla stock.” Buffett: “Wrong! I should build an electric vehicle company.” Musk: “Wrong! You’re too late.” Buffett: “Wrong! I’d do it on Mars.” Musk: “Wrong! I’ve got that covered already. Plus, I won’t take you there.” Buffett: “Fine friend you are.” Buffett to Charlie Munger: “Heh Charlie, ask Jeff when he’s going to Mars.” Munger: “He says he’s not thinking that far ahead.” Buffett: “Charlie, what... Read more
I’ve blogged before about a mulligan in golf. That’s when you tee off on the first tee and hit a lousy tee shot and then promptly hit another tee shot, and if your second tee shot is better than your first one, you abandon the first ball and play the second ball with no penalty stroke. It’s also called a do-over. But that’s only fun golf, not tournament golf. Ex-U.S. President Donald Trump goes on and on and on... Read more
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