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Zac and Kiefer

Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?

This morning, while sitting at the kitchen table, the question that I had expected my son to eventually ask me, was finally asked.  After taking the self-applied clip-on tie off of his undershirt, buttoning his top button, and correctly reseting the tie, he looked at me and said: “Daddy, why don’t you go to church [...]

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A five year old we can all be proud of….

A five year old we can all be proud of….

It’s hard not to love this story and the people involved in it.

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Roman Polanski

Tuesday Newsday – Roman Polanski Arrested

On March 10, 1977, a 43 year old Roman Polanski photographed a young model for a French magazine.  After the shoot, they ended up in Jack Nicholson’s hot tub, where they got stoned on Quaaludes, and eventually had sex.  The girl, Samantha Gailey, was just 13 years old. Sadly, this was not the first time [...]

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Tuesday Newsday – The President’s Labor Day Speech

Tuesday Newsday – The President’s Labor Day Speech

So…. maybe you heard about the controversy surrounding the speech that the President of the United States is giving in Arlington, VA today.  If not, I’ll try to fill you in quickly.  Its a speech to children.  Children in a school.  A public school.  And it it being broadcast around the country to any other [...]

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Tuesday Newsday – Monkey See, Monkey Do

Tuesday Newsday – Monkey See, Monkey Do

It’s been a kind of slow news week, and I didn’t really see anything jumping out at me from the headlines over the last few days.  So, I hopped over to www.time.com, and immediately found something that DID grab my attention.  It was an article titled “Monkey See, Monkey Do: Why We Flatter Via Imitation”. [...]

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Joga Bonito

“Joga Bonito” loosely means:  Play beautifully.  It has been said that soccer is the beautiful game.  I won’t argue with that. I found a great couple of videos on Youtube today that I wanted to share here.  Billy Wingrove watched this Nike commercial about the 1998 Brazilian soccer team at the airport when he was [...]

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