Comcast xFinity is now saying our internet service will be restored by tomorrow at 10 pm. This amends their earlier reassurance that service would be restored by 5 pm today. My new New Year’s Resolution is to have internet access some time during 2025. As an Old Person poorly equipped for this typing-with-your-thumbs-on-a-phone-screen mode of writing, I’m afraid this site will be slim pickings until xFinity gets their wires uncrossed. Thanks for your patience. P.S. WordPress now requires a featured... Read more

Jimmy Carter was a former president for longer than anyone else and he was better at it than almost anybody else. Read more

"God defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing." Read more

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." Read more

If it's all about you, then it doesn't really matter what else or who else God loves. God doesn't even really matter that much, except insofar as you get helped out. Read more

What do we do about the large number of anti-social young American men sucked into a world of misogyny and authoritarian politics? Take the skinheads bowling. Take them bowling. Read more

All people means all people. Always. Read more

My mother told us that boredom was a sin. If we were bored on a rainy Saturday, that was our choice and our fault. Read more

"He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has lifted up the humble." Read more

Sometimes it can be accidentally entertaining in a Plan 9 From Outer Space way, but usually, like most Bad Writing, it's just boring. Read more