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Hélène and I have been on the road for the last two weeks, with her sister (Collette) and Collette's husband Jean-Pierre. The couple has never been to the Southwest before, so we tried to give them a Grand Tour. I bought a top-box for our baggage, damn near as big as our little car. I of course took a ton of photos, which I'll post here. ---------- Our first stop was Taliesin West , Frank...

There has been something about the Trump administration that has tugged at a childhood memory for the past fourteen months or so. It has been just a wisp of a recollection that I could not quite put my finger on until yesterday when the light bulb finally clicked on. One of many pastimes during my misspent youth was pinball, one game for a nickel, five for a quarter and you could pretty much...

"PSYCHOANALYSIS NOW - PAY LATER", is a new psychological service available at all Quickie Marts, courtesy of Drs. Ding Dong and Ding-A-Ling", conjoined Siamese Twins, who specialize in treating this highly contagious disease, currently, sweeping through Congress like a BLUE TSUNAMI, known pejoratively, as the "Ass to Mouth" Syndrome.These highly defamed professors, little known scholars and...

MISDIRECTION The dark speaks a word to light The Son replies, wellness is a white ship sailing across an endless night. © Calbab 2018 A while ago I finished reading a most interesting article presented by one of my NT friends.   The originating article included an internal link to another quite exceptional read. In the piece, the star character is a...

As many of you may know, I, too, am a Man of Glob, er, "Man of GOD", ordained by the Universal Church of Lice, er, "Life", in the early 1970s. I preach under the nom de plume of Reverend Oral Fleece, Pasteur, of the Church of the "How Big Is Your Wallet, How Small Is Your Brain?" Located in the lovely, but, nearly all torn down Mildew, Ohio, "Where There Are No Jobs", not even "Blow Jobs",...

I hate the word, “ GAY. ” Good. I've got that off my chest. In the English Oxford dictionary the word GAY means, “Light-hearted and carefree.” When did “gay” as homosexual begin its journey of 'saving' grace to a class of people? Let’s look back. Historians believe the first use of “homosexual” was by Karl-Maria Kertbeny, born as Karl-Maria Benkert (1824-82), an Austrian-born...

DOUBTING THOMAS? MIDDLE PATH? MY LORD AND MY GOD! The focus of this article is on Agnostics and Agnosticism. Questions such as these came to me about a week ago as I watched  prime-time evening news. Actually, I'd like to come back to this after a bit. Clarence Darrow, the famous lawyer and Agnostic wrote: "I am Agnostic as to the question of God. I...

Well the cat is out of the bag as they say. Rand Paul opined aloud the hypocrisy of the GOP in regards to budget deficits. For the past nine years the GOP wrung their hands and gnashed their teeth over deficits by the past administration, yet over the past few months have tacked on another approximate two trillion dollars (most likely under estimated). What say ye, deficit hawks?

When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8 The Conversion of John Newton Captain John Newton wrote in his book, Thought s Upon the African Slave Trade : With our ships, the great object is to be full. When the ship is there, it is thought desirable, she should take as many [slaves] as possible. The cargo of a vessel of a hundred...

[Start the song now.] MARRY ME, M. Only once was I offered a hand in marriage just what I needed -- the sanctity.  It could have been the look in those eyes, in that moment you could be mine.  Our hands entwined for all to see I dreamed that dream believed it could be  You couldn’t understand why I hesitated, it wasn’t your fault, your spirit soared free.  You couldn’t really know why I let my...

John Unlike Me is a pseudonym, a symbol even, for a truly amazing man that I met during the post-modern 1990's. I had newly come to faith in God in the mid-90's and I was progressing through a six-week interval some of you may be conscious of or have observed in new believers: It is a stage most noticeable in men by a new found sense of hugging or embracing other men as a form of...

When Were You Ever Pressed Into Service? How Did It Make You Feel? As a teen male, I was first pressed into service in an unappreciated role of "gay" high-schooler. Of course, in those years, it was nowhere a positive look. My life was a lonely, terribly unspectacular tale of beatings, spittings, and being trespassed against. Just kidding! Yes, really. I was a very...