The ring tone I use on my cell phone at present is one that never fails to attract attention. Some don’t recognize it, and from those people I generally get […]

[The regular reader will recognize much of this material from two pieces written six and seven years ago. I’ve joined them and added a bit of new material, not because […]

[Adapted from a note posted to Facebook.] The Batesville Store, formerly Page’s store, is closing. This saddens me more deeply than I can express. To its new owners, and to […]

On weekday mornings, I generally start my day by watching HLN’s Morning Express with Whoever Happens To Be Filling In For Robin Meade This Week. While the program airs a […]

It really was just curiosity that made me do this. I’m seeing QR codes (the name for that ugly binary object you see above) everywhere now. One of my employer’s […]

I sent the following to the President of Virginia Tech today. If your thinking is in phase with mine, I would urge you to do likewise. They’re making a mistake, […]

I seem to be having a spate of nightmares. I’m not sure what’s caused it, but it is making the idea of oversleeping manifestly unattractive. I’m fascinated with the mind’s […]

25 years ago yesterday, America lost seven brave people in what can only be described as the worst tragedy in the history of America’s manned space program, the Challenger disaster. […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately ruminating about truth. Truth used to be everything. “Honesty is the best policy.” “A man is only as good as his word.” […]

This blog will probably surprise pretty much everyone. I have, to my knowledge, never written anything of this sort before. Religion and I have had what can only be described […]

Remember Mike McGowan? He’s the smug school system spokesman I’d never heard of until the last Cherokee County school board election, when he put himself on my radar with a […]

2011 has arrived. The year that was seems to have flown by so quickly for me that I’m still feeling a little jetlagged! It’s been a year of tremendous change. […]

There have been a lot of changes in my life since I last wrote in this blog. The extensive “microblogging” I tend to do on Facebook has occupied far too […]

I read a fairly well-presented blog (http://daryllang.com/blog/4421) in support of the NYC Mosque last week. Its author opined that the only reasons left to oppose the project are bigotry and […]

Dr. Laura Schlesinger, who is probably the most annoying, judgemental, self-absorbed person who ever sat behind a radio microphone, seems to have opened Pandora’s box yesterday when she had the […]

Popcorn is everywhere. Most of us have grown up eating this ubiquitous snack. Movie theaters universally have popcorn stands, and by prohibiting outside food, they manage to convince millions of […]