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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
The other day on the news there was an item about a man who managed to collect over $600,000 in welfare benefits before he was caught. Of course, the comments made much of the fact that he was Muslim and an immigrant. But that is really missing the point. What I would like to know, is how did...
Sometimes I wonder if all the attention autism is getting nowadays is a good thing, or whether it will end up backfiring on us. It's really hard to explain to someone what exactly autism is, and how it makes you (the autistic person) different from non-autistic persons, or to use the current...
Well, now I have been told that I am belligerent for no reason. Yeah, right, whatever.
Actually my accuser has it all wrong. I am belligerent FOR a reason. My goal in life is to make as many people miserable as I possibly can. I just get a big kick out of it because that is the kind of...
In my last blog I discussed Catholicism in some detail. Now I am going to look at other religions that I have observed that pose particular problems when one of the couple does not belong to that faith. Please keep in mind that I do not know these religions from the inside out and I may be...
Sometimes I wonder if the reason people find themselves in dysfunctional or stressful relationships is because they don't do their homework. Think about it, the average person probably does more research when it comes to buying consumer goods like electronic equipment, cars, appliances, and...
WARNING. I am going to step on some people's toes here and if they are easily offended, they should not read this post.
Ayn Rand said once that she thought women in general were not as smart as men. Once I would have bristled to read something like that, but the older I get and the more I...
Why is it that certain parts of the body are considered unmentionable while others are not? Is it because they are prone to discharges and other gross stuff? Yet mouths and noses are prone to the same, but nobody says that you can't mention them (except maybe the Tuareg of North Africa who do...
This play I am doing has really got me thinking. It really makes me wonder about memories and choices and even though my character says to her son that it really isn't about the women that his father slept with back in his college days, it's about something, a story or an event that makes you...
There is a rat that lives in my brain. He's a big albino Sprague-Dawley rat with beady red eyes. He lives in a wire mesh cage with an exercise wheel. No one can see this rat. He doesn't show up on tests. But I know he is there. Most of the time he is sleeping and that is the way I like it...
Well, I guess the ice cube/backward pajamas magic worked, because we are getting snow and quite a bit of it. They say the mess that shut down Washington State is headed our way. I can hardly wait! Kids--you can stop flushing your damn ice cubes down the toilet now, and go put your pajamas on...
Last Sunday one of the elders said something that has stuck in my mind. He said "the Enemy does not like what we are doing here at this church. The Enemy does not like what we are doing in this town. We need to pray for the leadership of this church so that they will be protected from the...
Recently I heard about a new superstition going around among some of the kids here. If you want to make it snow, flush ice cubes down the toilet and/or wear your pajamas inside out. I don't know how this got started but it has something to do with the fact that it's been an exceptionally mild...
Last Sunday's message was on the concluding verses of Matthew 10, the famous "I came not to bring peace but a sword" passage. It's pretty chilling. Jesus demands utmost loyalty from his followers, that they love him more than parents, children, husband, wife. This doesn't mean you don't love...
I'm in a new play and this time I have a major role, so I have a lot of lines to learn. It's just a short one-act play about a couple and their adult son. I play the mother. The father has some kind of dementia, possibly Alzheimer's, and the son wants his mother to put him (the father) in...
Just got back from listening to a speaker talk about marketing yourself and the image you project. She asked us to write down a list of words we use to describe ourselves. It was all about image and goals. And I thought, What if you have no goals?
What if it takes so much to get through...
There's been a lot of debate lately about stem cell research, and also a lot of misinformation on both sides, but mainly--I hate to say it--from the pro-stem-cell research side. By lumping in all stem cells with human embryonic stem cells, they make it sound like those who are opposed to...
There's an interesting scene in Matthew, Chapter 17, right after Jesus goes up on the mountain with Peter, James, and John and gets transfigured right before their eyes. While all this is going on apparently the rest of the disciples, who, if you remember had been given power to heal and cast...
There is a scene in the first "Smokey and the Bandit" movie where Burt Reynolds (Bandit) and Sally Fields (Frog) are strolling in a woods having a conversation while taking a break from evading Sheriff Justice. She is from New York City and is a wanna-be chorus line dancer. He, of course, is a...
Ok, I have to admit it, I was seduced by a radio ad. I should have known better. The ad was for the movie "Seven Days in Utopia" and it made it sound so interesting that I went out and bought the movie. Somebody is laughing all the way to the bank and it isn't me.
It isn't all bad. It...
I was at Wal-Mart the other day looking through the discount DVD bin when I came across an old favorite of mine, "Smokey and the Bandit." Actually, it was all seven "Smokey and the Bandit" movies. So of course I had to get it because I had only heard of the first two.
I have to admit, they...