Author: Jim Richardson

An Abomination A few years ago, Dr. Laura Schlesinger said on her radio show that homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstances. A letter to her appeared on the internet a few days later: Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding… Continue reading Dear Dr. Laura

A 2nd Federal appeals court has decided that a former Bush administration official is immune from prosecution over  a series of memorandums he wrote that set the United States down the road to government approved torture after then 911 attacks. John Yoo is a former deputy-attorney general, and is now a law school professor. In… Continue reading Scary Yoo

I was reading this article today about how so many recipes lie about how long it takes to prepare, especially when it comes to anything requiring browning or caramelizing onions. Most recipes seem to indicate that you can get golden brown, caramelized onions in just 10 minutes, when the truth is that it actually takes more like… Continue reading How to Brown Onions

Yesterday, in Grand Junction, Colorado, Robert Dewey walked out of a courtroom a free man after serving 18 years in prison for a crime that DNA evidence now shows he did not commit. In 2009, James Bain was freed from a Florida prison after serving 35 years in prison, a result of DNA testing of… Continue reading Our courts are broken

Imagine trying to run your family with a “Zero Tolerance” rule in effect. Even if Jr. is in bed with the measles, if he doesn’t do his chores, he’s grounded for six years. That’s “Zero Tolerance”. Sounds kind of silly, and I don’t know of any working family that actually runs this way, because no… Continue reading Zero Tolerance

An interesting article in the New York Times today  discusses an article in this months Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about why some people may be such vehement homophobes. Apparently a group of scientists have performed a study, and found scientific evidence that some homophobia is the result of repressed same-sex desire. They do go… Continue reading What if we are all wrong?

I’m somewhat chagrined to read that the State of Tennessee has pulled yet another bone-headed move, making it somewhat akin to Kansas, attempting to legislate human behaviour yet again. Like the Ostrich, sticking your head in the sand may get you the juicy worm that you’re after, but you are ignoring everything else around you,… Continue reading The Ostrich

I’m not sure where I first heard the expression “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” I don’t think any of my wise elders actually used it, although I wouldn’t have put it past my mother’s Father, he was always spouting off some proverb from one source or another. Sadly, more… Continue reading Bird in the hand

I understand that in America, we have devolved into primarily a two-party political system. To be a successful politician, you are most likely either a Republican, or a Democrat. Lately, it seems that our Congress has been completely unable to do what we sent them there to do. In order to run a country under… Continue reading Party-Line Voting

I like to think that I’m about as far from the tea-party side of the Republican party that I can be, those people are just extreme. However, this article caught my eye today about a mom who was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of her 10-year-old child because she made him walk 4.5 miles… Continue reading Pardon me, my teaparty is showing….

Yesterday I wrote about my daughters upcoming wedding, and how I thought that we had failed to teach our kids to act responsibly and live within their means when it comes to such things as marriages or proms or even buying cars. As excessive as we Americans have become, we really don’t hold a candle… Continue reading When it comes to getting married….

I don’t think we do a very good job at teaching our kids how to deal with reality. We teach them that they are good people, deserving of the best, and that there is nothing they can’t do if they try hard enough. But, somewhere in there I think we forgot to throw in a… Continue reading Dreams vs. Reality