Ok, there is some crap going on here in my state that I am both ashamed of and appalled at.  We have bible thumping ignorance running “hog wild” here.      Muslims have asked for permission to build a mosque in a Rutherford county here in Tennessee.  County commissioners gave their permission.  Once the community of this, so called, progressive college community, home to Middle Tennessee State University, got...

    Yeah, I know, I know.  There are hundreds, nay thousands of blog posts or online articles decrying all the things that have become unnecessary in our lifetimes.  I want to put my own spin on these things by making it about me.  These are things that have become obsolete in my lifetime that I will forever remember.   The Floppy Disk – Thumb drives and mini external / portable hard drives killed off the sturdy floppy disk. ...

    It’s no secret that I often find myself pining for the 80s.  I feel more every day that my teen years were the greatest years of my life. I miss it lots.  I started listing the movies from the 80s that  knew by heart.  I don’t just mean the actors or the story but also the lines, the colors, the bad edits.  Movies I have seen over and over and over again.  Memorizing every little nuance.      An amazing thing...

   Since a big part of my job is providing phone support to folks you can only imagine the names I run across on a daily basis.  It occurred to me today that there are a whole list of names that we should really think twice about naming our kids.    Before the flam is on, yes, I realize many of the names on this list have long and stoic histories but we don’t live in the past.  These names can cause a great deal of hurt...

       I am guilty of speeding, all the time.  I am trying to break myself of the habit.  This is not to say I am a bad driver.  I am no worse than any of the people I work with or any of my friends.  I have compared and the number of speeding tickets I have gotten are no more or less than anyone I have checked with.  I wanted to know why people speed, or at least, common reasons that we feel the psychological need to speed. ...

   Have you ever stopped to think about the worlds most populous bird?  Gallus Gallus Domesticus is the common chicken.  We all love the bird.  I like it baked, broiled, fried, blanched, grilled and poached.  Lets face it chicken is GOOD.  I was watching an epsiode of Good Eats with Alton Brown about the humble clucker and decided I wanted to know more.  Here are some of the fun facts I learned. Chickens are decended from jungle...