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Under One Roof
On the Utility of Faith
For those of you who don’t follow the majesty that is @sphughes99 on Twitter…this sort of stuff pops out from time to time… Thread on the utility of faith. Most of the […]
To the Moon
Second only to the Gettysburg address for me…one of the great of American Speeches given September 12, 1962 at Rice Stadium in Houston Texas by President John F. Kennedy. Enjoy…50 years to […]
On America
For every charge over Omaha Beach, there’s a My Lei. For every Apollo 11, there’s a Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. All our heroes have the same problem heroes always have. They’re people. And […]
Winter is Over…
I didn’t start Watching Game of Thrones until it had reached its sixth season. Like many outsiders, I’d grown tired of all the cryptic tweets and Facebook posts and for years had […]
Baseball
When I was twelve years old, I pitched a one hit, sixteen strike-out game against my team’s Little League rival in the playoffs. I stole home on a delayed steal without a […]
Better Thoughts
Words won’t take us where we need to go. But they’re all I have any more. And it doesn’t feel right, today, to keep them to myself. I was struck by a […]
Unforgivable
When I was 14, I was thrown out of the first high school I attended. It was a public school with plenty of great teachers and opportunities to learn. But it was […]
Some Thoughts on Vaccines
There is no proof that vaccinations are responsible for a rise in the rates of autism or any other neurological disorders. That is a fact of scientific record. There is, however, clear […]
Why I Root for the Patriots
The last time I didn’t root for the Patriots in a Super Bowl was 2002. I didn’t know then that they’d be in it eight more times with the same coach and […]