Perhaps we can tell a great deal about how folks have lived out their lives from their epitaphs. What about our epitaphs? At the end, what assessment will we make of it all? How will your epitaph read? What will my epitaph say? Will it read with comic cynicism like the epitaph of W.C. Fields? Read More
A few folks have taken issue with a bumper sticker on my car that reads: “science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.” Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for the saying. But Victor Stenger, a physicist and secular author, can. Some think it is incorrect and should read “extremism flies you into Read More
I remember him only vaguely. He was an insurance man with an office just a few doors down from my father’s pharmacy in Arlington, Ky. I can’t see the man in my mind’s eye, but I remember the respect that my father had for him. Murray State student Berry Craig IV could ask his grandmother Read More
The government shutdown, which has plagued the headlines for more than two weeks, has finally ended, and with it, the search for answers begins. Who won? Who lost? How did something like this happen? Will it happen again? It’s pretty clear who won and who lost this fight, if you ask me. The “winners” were Read More
Growing up in rural western Kentucky, I never thought much about Columbus Day. It just wasn’t a big deal for me, nor was it for a lot of my classmates; we never got the day off anyhow. I remember the stories of course: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” and all that jazz. We Read More
“New discovery will completely revise … ” “Scientists have to rewrite …” “Science wrong again.” Those headlines may grab the eye, but they are incorrect and grossly overstated. New or better data don’t often make existing data and description of phenomena wrong. I’d wager that more than 90 percent of the theory and details which Read More
One of my life-long dreams was fulfilled last Thursday evening when I was sworn in as a member of Murray’s Architectural Review Board. Now, that might not mean much to most of you, but to me, it meant that I was able to actually participate in a duty – a rite – that Kentucky’s 1891 Read More
It has been a little more than a week since the Republicans shut down the federal government in an attempt to delay Obamacare, and they show no signs of letting up, as of this writing. Why should they? The Republican leadership, unlike the president, knows its history. Nothing makes this more obvious than President Barack Read More