Doomsday Clock businessinsider.com photo The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept the Doomsday Clock at an ominous two minutes to doomsday a few days ago. This, it was noted, is as close to doomsday that we’ve been since the Cold … Continue reading
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Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont… Stopped at the Spring Street Coffee House in St. Marys, Ohio. Owner Roger Beckett said he was a “moderate” when it came to politics. That is, he said he was basically a realist who believed … Continue reading
I talked with Matt Arnold today. He and his family were missionaries in Chihua Chihua, Mexico, for 17 years. They worked with indigenous people in the rural areas there. He said it’s not “African poverty,” but the poverty there is … Continue reading
I took our sons Joseph and Jonathan to a football practice in North Creek, Ohio, last night. Joseph played split end and had a couple nice catches. Jonathan, the youngest one, was like a little Brian Uhrlacher (Bear’s middle linebacker) … Continue reading
After finishing our last tour, we have stopped at a farm in western Ohio. Here we’ve been involved with most every aspect of farming: baling hay, helping with a big garden, feeding the animals (cows, chickens, sheep…). … Continue reading
Catching up on our last week in Ohio… We’ve come to farm country near the mid-western border of Ohio for a pit stop. This afternoon I was out in a barn putting up bales of hay… Earlier in … Continue reading
Our Virginia Common Wealth Tour continues… We headed out of Verona and on to rural Buchanan, Virginia. We stopped at the Buchanan Quick Stop (that didn’t seem all that quick ). A slow country music song … Continue reading
Talked today with two human rights advocates who work in Colombia. Chris Knestrick told me that malaria is a huge problem in that country and he had recently gone on a mission to bring a man deathly sick with … Continue reading
I was interviewed by a reporter from AOL News. He asked me, among other things, my take on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict. I said that I believed the Israelis were participating in an illegal land grab that’s … Continue reading
While the immigration debate continues to heat up, we went to the Casa Juan Diego House of Hospitality in the heart of Houston to look at this issue ‘up close and personal,’ so to speak. The Casa Juan Diego … Continue reading