Tolkien is spinning like a top in his grave...

That tracks. The white kids will be waiting tables and dropping balls at better spots on the golf course.

The kids look thrilled. I guess it's time for their shift at the meat packing plant.

Well, I'm hopeful, too...but he's certainly become the pied piper of anyone who wants follow a disrespectful, dishonest, indecent, angry, resentful, and hateful tune into oblivion. I am still reeling from the knowledge of just how many people that is.

Lord love you for sticking with it over there and doing whatever good you could.

And how bad must that something be if it’s worse than what we already know?

Also works for "aggressively ignorant."

I will accept this comparison to a Komodo dragon as a compliment and, at my age, is most apt.

None at all. No ill effects whatsoever (other than excess calories).

Well, I can attest to living through salmon croquettes made from a can that expired six years earlier.

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I’d like to invite you to consider your own virtuous strengths – and those you hope to see in our leaders - by taking the Values In Action (VIA) strengths assessment you’ll find here:

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...especially in the crucial time when we are deciding, once again, whether we mean liberty and justice for all…or only for some. 6/?

As our government transitions from being a nation of laws, we’re going to be on our own to govern ourselves and support those who are willing to serve – virtuously – in local leadership roles,...5/?

Transcendence (spiritual strengths such as gratitude and hope) 4/?