Geoffrey JonesDays Gone By Most of us remember the old saying, "The straw that broke the camel's back." A graphic description of that moment where no more weight can be heaped on without destroying the ride itself.. "Political Correctness" has been having a pretty painless ride in recent years and the riders have been cracking the whip not only on the [...]
Dr. Schivel and jockey Flavien Prat win the Grade [...]
Geoffrey JonesDays Gone By Give and take is an old expression that you hear less of these days. The implication is quite simple and direct. It means that in an argument or disagreement a settling of the matter by both sides giving in a bit, or trying to understand the other, usually resolves it. I really suspect the self help book craze and the attendant social network slogans and sayings associated with that, combined with the related agenda of big business in conditioning folks to be more useful production robots by cutting back on the human factors of respect, love and caring, are all part of the picture. [...]
Geoffrey JonesDays Gone By (This column was first published in 2013) The other morning I awoke really early and since it was too early to walk to the diner I perused the news on my computer for awhile. Somehow I must have grown weary as I turned from article to article and wound up dozing off again into a half sleep. [...]
To understand and believe all that God has said is [...]
Geoffrey JonesDays Gone By Recently I noticed there have been, for obvious reasons, a number of articles appearing about the Diary of Anne Frank and her experiences during the second world war period. With the renewed interest in that time I also noticed that the debunked debunk theory claiming that a novelist wrote the diary has been dragged out of mothballs to attempt to use baseless misinformation to [...]
Scripture Text: John 12:36b-41 Title: Belief and Healing Question of the Day: [...]
by Geoffrey Jones Every so often I get a royal surprise in film watching. Over the holiday I had a chance to watch a film that did just that. It's title is "Idiocracy." It starts out in the same sort of way as one of those "National Lampoon Animal House" kind of movies . I was prepared for a total gross out with no redeeming merits. I was wrong. Ray Bradbury never used this sort of format for his stories, but I must say he would have liked the messages contained in this movie. The basic premise is sort of like time travel. A young army librarian, Joe Bauers and a young woman of questionable virtue “Rita” are chosen for their average intelligence level for an experiment in hibernation, they are put in sealed plastic compartments [...]
Geoffrey JonesDays Gone By I dedicate this article, [...]
by Danny Brewer The importance of special teams [...]
