CommenTerry, March 15th, 2007
The United Methodist Church is now telling us to "find your own path." However, God demands that we find His path.
I love to be pampered and mollycoddled. Unfortunately, very few people are willing to treat me that way.
The reason there are difficult, long, and expensive ways to do some things is because the easy, short, and cheap ways to do them rarely work.
I'm not all that concerned with stuff like fighting global warming and funding the arts. Other people will take care of those things. I'm more concerned about stuff that other people won't take care of -- like my retirement savings, for example.
My version of Christianity focuses more on how making the right (and wrong) choices affects us in the here and now and not so much on some future rewards and punishment.
If minors can be tried as adults for crimes they commit, why shouldn't they have the option to be treated as adults in other ways? If we were truly consistent, we would also allow a 16-year-old, for example, to say the following when initially denied a purchase at a liquor store: "No, no, no, you don't understand. I want to buy this as an adult!"
Three little words at the bottom of the TV screen that can negate the contents of an entire infomercial: "Results not typical."
I were a bank teller, there's no way I would give a potential robber any money just because he handed me a letter stating that he had a gun. I would threaten to start reading it out loud unless he showed me the gun.
As a regular usher at my church, I use the "butt rule" for counting members of the congregation: If their butt touches a pew, even for a split second, I count 'em.
Anyone holding a grudge against Al Gore for calling for the 2000 recount must also be against football coaches calling for instant replays.
Have you noticed all those people who stand around clapping at the New York Stock Exchange when the closing bell sounds? I can understand why they might do that on days when the market has gone up. But shouldn't they be booing instead of clapping on days when the market has gone down?
After having studied many of my New Year's resolutions over the last decade, I made an interesting discovery. I am less likely to keep those resolutions that require courage and/or sacrifice than those that don't.
The results of saying 'no' are temporary; the results of saying 'yes' are often permanent.
The medical examiner in the Anna Nicole Smith case bears an eerie resemblance to the late director/actor Otto Preminger, who played Mr. Freeze on the Batman TV series.
Okay, it's time for me to coin a new word: swooper. A swooper is someone who swoops in at the last second and grabs something you have heart set on getting. They often appear in parking lots.
There are not many things more annoying than the know-it-all mentality of the cultural elite.
