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by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I rarely drink alcohol, not because I’m opposed to folks drinking alcohol, but because I don’t like the taste of alcoholic drinks. If you want to ruin good grape juice, ferment it. As a result of that dislike of alcohol, you will rarely find me hanging out i...

by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. As you have probably seen by now, a draft judgement from the Supreme Court overturning Roe V Wade, the decision that legalized abortion in the U.S. almost 50 years ago, was leaked to the press. I’ll not go into the details of the decision because it is, of c...

by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The Greek word translated “glass” in 1 Corinthians 13:12 in the NT is, some would say deliberately, ambiguous. The likely meaning refers to a lens or a mirror, as in a poor reflection in a mirror. It has also been translated as “window.” Regardless, the idea...

by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Writing an opinion column is often the equivalent of shouting into the darkness, hoping there is someone there listening. Occasionally someone does respond, assuring you that you are an idiot. Mostly, though, there is only silence. If I had wanted to get a l...

by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Florida has decided to further elevate its right-wing slant by taking its book banning beyond school and public libraries to math books, rejecting 41 percent of proposed new math books, citing critical race theory (CRT) and elements of Common Core as reasons...

by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. I got my peaches out in Georgia [Oh, yeah, ****I get my weed from California [That’s that ****I took my chick up to the North, yeah [Bad that *****I get my light right from the source, yeah [Yeah, that’s it] Justin Bieber “Peaches” Justin Bieber may have got...

By Jim Powers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A personal failing that I must acknowledge frequently is that lost causes follow me home like sad little puppies. I’m so attracted to them that I continue to adopt them even though doing so once came precariously close to getting me killed.  Never one ...

by Jim Powers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. If you spend much time on the internet on message boards or in comment sections on media websites, or follow Twitter, you will see a common response questioning the seriousness of a poster's opinion, "Are you drunk?" The obvious accusation is that no one would say such a dumb thing if they were sober. It's...

by Jim This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Nebraska Rep. State Sen. Bruce Bostelman, in a debate during a school funding bill, moved well past the current boogeyman of the right, CRT (which isn't taught in public schools) to the core of the problem with education, furries. Furries, if you haven't heard, are groups who dress up as animals and interac...

 by Jim Powers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. There is a sexist expression popular in the 1950s that says that "A women's place is barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen." Are you offended by that? Good. Because it seems that everything old is becoming new again. "Constitutionally unsound rulings like Griswold v. Connecticut, Kelo v. City of New L...