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So, I am driving home yesterday the back way from work. The route reminds me of the old ditty "over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go." It is a scenic drive and minus the deer and occasional tailgating driver, it is quite tranquil. There was a big old log on the road. As I was motoring, there was one of those scenarios where two tractors were coming the other way and taking up much more than half the road. This log/branch pincered the other end, so that I had no choice but to send up the automotive white flag, surrender, and stop. The log would have definitely messed up my car. After the tractors rumbled by, I pulled around the log, and started to drive. But then my conscience bothered me. "What if someone else hits that log out in the road?" and "If it is dark, someone is going going to collide with that thing." I kept driving. Although the picture above is exaggerated in terms of log size, the road and woods look muc

Would Jesus kill an ant? It is a serious question. We know Spring is around the corner when ants begin to appear en masse in the Bierker household. No prognosticator shadow seeing groundhog needed. Now, groundhogs in the garden, I have no problem exterminating. But ants? Those little hard working creatures? It is not like they are fire ants attacking me or my wife. Or a wasp. Or even a fly buzzing around my head...all of which I can justify taking out. These ants are just trying to get by, and are feeding off of stuff that we have left behind. Yesterday, no fooling, Lina left a plate on our kitchen elevated table for two that was coated with grease, sprinkled with bagel crumbs and eggs, and flecks of cheese. Could feed a Patton-sized Army of Ants. We headed off in a hurry to church. I was out in the car getting my GPS working so I saw not her egregious error. Nary an ant when we returned several hours later. Me, in making the bagel egg and cheese sandwich, dropped a small p

Sandra Fluke testified before Congress on the costs of bearing the payment for birth control because Georgetown University does not cover it in its student insurance plan. As a Catholic university long gone Liberal, this policy emanates from the Roman Catholic Church which still has authority on some institutional  issues. While a percentage of women need birth control for other reasons than to prevent contraception (15%), the remaining 85% are using it to prevent pregnancy. And, many of these women, are unmarried. Rush Limbaugh, married four times, felt morally compelled to register his outrage to this subsidized fornication subsidy by choosing harsh words...slut, prostitute. No Rush, the women are not being paid to have sex, that is technically what prostitution is. As far as the slut comment, your serial marriages makes you less than a stalwart defender of traditional values. So, shut yer trap.     In Fluke's testimony, most of her communication centered on the 15%. It is