Yesterday evening was one those swampy, late summer Louisiana evenings where you know that you’re going to sweat through every article of clothing that you have on if you step outside. I wanted to go to church and I tried to recruit a travel partner from within the household. They were having none of it,…
The Irish Example
War is the greatest testament to the fallen state of man. I hate it. We begin wars due to our corrupt nature and then, before the bodies turn cold, we begin to rationalize the reasons for doing it. That being said, I come from a people who are good at war. There is no doubt…
The Failure of our Religious Leaders
Martin Luther King Jr. is well-known for his womanizing. Some reports say that there were close to forty extra-marital affairs during the course of his ministry. What is less well known is his unorthodox, if not heretical, positions on some of the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. It is without doubt that this man…
Southern Standards
For millennia, the human experience has existed within tribal groups. Only recently has a tribal mindset become something that is taboo or even for some ethnic groups, immoral. And who decided that it was immoral and at what point in history did it become that way? It seems that, in modern society, it is perfectly…
Progress Interrupted
It was the late 1980s and somewhere just outside Jacksonville, Florida, on the way to Cape Canaveral, it was going to be our first side-stop on the way to our main goal, Epcot Center in Orlando’s Walt Disney World. This was the Deep South, but aside from the accents still carried by my grandparents you…
Order and Beauty
Of all the sights that modernity has imposed on my eyeballs, the sight of a McMansion sitting in the middle of a southern, country landscape is one that irks me the most. The optical illusion of grandeur made by an oversized roof and front door, combined with Stucco pillars and steep angles, work better at…
Jane’s Song
Over the past five years, the DNA analysis business has exploded. Prices for ancestry estimations made from analyzing someone’s autosomal DNA have dropped considerably (no doubt do to selling that information to third parties), allowing most of the public to get a better idea of where there ancestors came from. Once someone’s analysis is complete,…
Church of Dixie 