Twenty-nine year old Carlos Ortiz of Mexico just won the Vivint Houston Open golf tournament on the PGA Tour by two strokes. He posted a closing round of five-under par 65 and a 72-hole total of 13-under par 267 at the par-70 Memorial Park golf course. American Dustin Johnson, the #1 ranked player in the world, and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama finished tied for second. Ortiz birdied the par-five 16th hole and made a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-four 18th... Read more
It was ironic that yesterday, Republican President Donald Trump was playing “the gentleman’s game,” golf, at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, when media outlets, such as the Associated Press and even the president’s favored Fox News, announced the Democratic challenger and former vice president, Joe Biden, as the winner of the presidential election held four days earlier but in limbo due to the counting of mail-in voting ballots. Why is it ironic? Today, Sunday, Trump was back... Read more
Joe Biden was just declared the 46th U.S. president. The election ended last Tuesday, but the race had remained undecided. It’s because the USA system of voting requires the counting of ballots that includes mail-in ballots that can take days to finish counting. The contest for the White House therefore had been stuck for days. Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump as of yesterday had 214 electoral votes, and the challenger Democratic Joe Biden–former U.S. Senator from Delaware and Vice President... Read more
After seven winless years on the PGA Tour, forty-eight year old Brian Gay got back in the winner’s circle today by shooting a seven-under par 64 to get in a playoff and win the Bermuda Championship on the wind-swept island of Bermuda. On the first extra hole, Gay bested the twenty-six year old PGA Tour rookie Wyndham Clark with a birdie for Gay’s fifth Tour title of his pro golf career. Earlier in this last round, Clark was shooting birdies... Read more
Superstar actor Sean Connery died last night at the age of 90 at his home in The Bahamas. The handsome, 6 foot 2 inch, manly-looking bloke with the thick, Scottish brogue acted in sixty movies. He won an Oscar for a supporting role to Kevin Kostner who played the real life Eliot Ness in “The Untouchables.” But Sean Connery’s thrust to fame occurred earlier than that, during the 1950s and 60s, by playing in a series of six spy-thriller films... Read more
Where did we get that saying, “the handwriting is on the wall”? It’s from the Bible. The apocalyptic book of Daniel tells about it, back in the fifth century BCE. We read, “King Belshazzar [of Babylon-Chaldea] made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking in the presence of the thousand. Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the vessels of gold and silver that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken... Read more
For years, scientists have theorized that there may be water on the moon. If that is the case, that would make it much more plausible that astronauts could live on the moon. How so? People must have water to drink to stay alive. But by todays standards, it would cost thousands of dollars to send one gallon of water into space via a manned spacecraft. That would be too expensive to make living on the moon a possibility. Nevertheless, last... Read more
A scribe once asked Jesus, “Which commandment is the first of all?” (Mark 21.28). This Jew was referring, of course, to the Tanach/Tanakh, which was the Jewish Bible. At least in those days and before, Judaism was a religion that was very oriented to a sacred text. And Jesus was regarded as a Torah teacher, which means a recognized teacher of Moses’ Law that is contained in the Tanach. “Torah” generally referred to the first five books of the Jewish... Read more
Easy-going, sweet-swinging, gum chomping Patrick Cantlay cruised to a seven-under par 65 today to win the Zozo Championship @ Sherwood in Thousand Oaks, California, by two strokes over two of the world’s best golfers–#2 Jon Rahm and #3 Justin Thomas. Both Rahm and Thomas really messed up this week to let Cantlay capture his third PGA Tour win. Rahm’s embarrassment was in the first round on Thursday, on his 78-yard wedge shot to the 18th green, when he hit a... Read more
This year is the 200th anniversary of “The Jefferson Bible” as it is popularly called. But it really is entitled The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. It was compiled, thus not actually authored, by the third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, in 1820. Jefferson did something similar to what I did in compiling my first book, The Gospel (237 pp., softcover, but no longer in print). This book was published in about May of 1987. But I also made it... Read more
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