Southern Miss Football

 As everyone in the country gears up for Southern Miss football this weekend, many publications are predicting Southern Miss football to break into the BCS bowl series championship.  I’ve been predicting it every year since the BCS inseption that way whenever it happens I’ll be looked on with glory as a prophet.  Lorrie and I [...]

Mighty Big

Excerpt from the BBC about the dark-matter universe just across the way:
“It’s hard even for astronomers to picture how big these things are,” conceded Minnesota’s Professor Lawrence Rudnick.
“If you were to travel at the speed of light, it would take you several years to get to the nearest stars in our own Milky [...]

Moving back Mississippi

Why are we going back to Mississippi? Thanks for asking. This cannot all together be answered but I will attempt what I know.
1. We want to be closer to family. With two young children, it has become increasingly difficult to resist the sappy pleas of grandparents and aunts for our return. [...]

Girls don’t matter

Girls don’t matter in many place in the world. Many times babies will be exposed or aborted simply because they are females. Nothing short of an all out war upon the hearts of men and women with the gospel of Jesus will transform this perverted view of humanity. Girls matter. [...]

Berty-bert and Poko

We are looking for a caring home for our two boys. They are well trained in the art of pooping and peeing in a litter box as well as scratching a post and not furniture. They have been indoor cats all four years of their lives. They have never bitten [...]

the War in Iraq

I don’t write much or comment much on the war.  War is more complex than our idealogies.  War is difficult to understand.  I have a hard time imagining a man murdering or molesting much less a whole army doing such.(I am not comparing murder to death in war nor suggesting  anyone’s army is molesting anyone [...]

Disciples, sometimes, are impoverished fishermen

It seems Peter wasn’t the only disciple who had a difficult time fishing (Luke 5):
“…because they intended, like Smith, to amass wealth from fishing. In 1630, the Reverend Francis Higgenson wrote in New England Plantation, “There is probabilitie that the Countrey is of an excellent temper for the making of salt.” But the Pilgrims had [...]

Mass in the Salt, origin of ketchup, and salt from urine

More from Salt: A World History
*parenthes are mine
“In 1689, the mines began offering miners daily Catholic services at their underground place-of-work. The miners of Wieliczka began carving religious figures out of rock salt. Three hundred feet below the surface, miners carved a chapel out of rock salt with statues and bas-relief scenes along [...]

Fermenting women and naked salt workers

From Salt: A World History
*parenthesis are mine
“The Basques, who have always had a reputation for physical strength, made their harpooners legendary–large men of great power who could plunge a spear deep into the back of a sleeping giant (whale).”
“In a 1961 speech, Charles De Gaulle, explained the ungovernable character of the French nation, said, “Nobody [...]

My trash weighed 8 pounds

I weighed my trash last night as I was putting it out to the curb. It was 8lbs.  That’s 416lbs a year.  416lbs x 100million households in the U.S. (a conservative estimate) = 41,600,000,000 (that’s billion folks) pounds of trash.  We are all white trash I guess.  What if we could cut that in half?  [...]