Maybe our kids would get a better education if professors got paid more than coaches. “But the coaches make so much money for us!” they reply. So. If making a profit is what the university is all about, than it has already failed as an institution of education.

    It's strange that, if you told people that the Mexican drug cartels were hiring hit men, few would apply for the jobs, yet many are suggesting we get rid of environmental laws and industrial safety laws to make it easier to get jobs even though it will mean death by accidents and pollution for many. What these people don't seem to get is that it is that very lack of consideration for others that has put us in this mess.

    My concern with the President's plan to give a tax break to companies that hire veterans that have been out of work for six months or more is that it will discourage them from hire vets who have been out of work for less than six months.

    Conservatives claim to have all the solutions to our economic problems, so how do they explain that in Alabama, a very conservative state, the largest county has filed for bankruptcy?

“You will never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars; and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one the whole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.” ~Thomas Traherne

“I am a channel for God's creativity and God's plan for the world, and my work comes to good because of it.”

A former British soldier tried to auction off a chuck of metal which he claimed was a piece of the statue of Saddam Hussein that was toppled by U. S. Marines in2003, specifically that it was part of his butt.

Officials of the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport hired marketing consultants to come up with a creative and modern new name for the airport. The winning name: “Chattanooga Airport”.

A young woman playing paintball in England got hit with one in the chest causing her silicone breast implant to pop.

Now that elephant tusks and bearskin rugs are frowned upon as home decorations, one of the popular fads among those with too much money to spend it sensibly is to have some real dinosaur bones on the mantle or coffee table.