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But I Can Still Read What You're Thinking

Posted on August 22, 2010
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. ---T.S. Eliot I may be mad I may be blind I may be viciously unkind But I can still read what you're thinking ---Annie Lennox So, Chris...

Wake Up: Time To Die

Posted on August 21, 2010
Everyone must have days or nights when they've had it. At least, I assume everyone must. Had it with all the Sara Palin haters and their effete condescension to the point that I'd like to cock the hammer of a .44 S&W, shove it in their mouths, and pull the...

Maybe Tomorrow

Posted on August 16, 2010
In one sense, succumbing to depression is an act of laziness. It's easier to wallow, wrapped in the warm fog of comfort that some take in their unhappiness, than it is to exercise the act of will it often takes to become happy. All you need do is turn on...

Till I Shall Save Myself

Posted on August 14, 2010
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. ---Acts 9:18 The Sword of Suprise by G.K. Chesterton Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees;...

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I Want Love

Posted on August 12, 2010
Lord, my God, You who are holy, look and see my affliction! Have pity on the child whom You have engendered in sorrow and do not consider my sins, lest you forget Your power over them. What father will not liberate his son? And what son has not been chastised...

Dust To Dust

Posted on August 09, 2010
A negative reaction to the strong (albeit redacted) language in my most recent post left me feeling about some of the more brittlely and overtly pious Christians I run across the same way that former editorial writer for The National Review and the Dallas Morning News, Rod Dreher, felt about...

Pressure

Posted on August 07, 2010
A "friend of mine," also a lawyer, has a niece who just finished her first year of law school. She called him last week, stressed out over the "pressure" she was facing. Law school appeared to her to be much harder than undergraduate school, and she didn't know how she...

Belief in One God: "The Single Worst Idea In History"

Posted on August 06, 2010
Cultures fight wars with one another. They must do so because values can only be asserted or posited by overcoming others, not by reasoning with them. Cultures have different perceptions, which determine what the world is. They cannot come to terms. There is no communication about the highest things...

Almost Cut My Hair. Happened Just The Other Day.

Posted on July 24, 2010
Here a year or two ago me and Loretta went to a conference in Corpus Christi and got set next to this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I aint even sure what...

And I?m finding my rhythm, As I twist in the snow

Posted on July 17, 2010
Sweet Dancer by William Butler Yeats The girl goes dancing there On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth Grass plot of the garden; Escaped from bitter youth, Escaped out of her crowd, Or out of her black cloud. Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer! If strange men come from the house To lead...

You Had To Be There

Posted on July 08, 2010
I was in my office in Longview early that Saturday morning in 1976 when I received a phone call from Panola County Sheriff Johnnie Spradley. He got straight to the point. "Glenn, we've got a body in the Sabine River on Highway 43 between Tatum and Marshall...

Everybody's Talking At Me

Posted on July 03, 2010
Everybody's talking at me. I don't hear a word they're saying, Only the echoes of my mind. People stopping staring, I can't see their faces, Only the shadows of their eyes. --Harry Nilsson Too many Catholics have unconsciously come to see the church through the lens of American secular politics;...

Who's Going To Take Away His License To Kill?

Posted on June 29, 2010
A License To Kill --- Abdi-Noor Haji Mohamed In the barren lands of the East They are fighting a dirty war But in the shadows of despair Their children are dying out Are they leaders of a nation? Or are they killers of a nation Is politics a shield to...

Others Only Dream Of

Posted on June 26, 2010
After Work The shack and a few trees float in the blowing fog I pull out your blouse, warm my cold hands on your breasts. you laugh and shudder peeling garlic by the hot iron stove. bring in the axe, the rake, the wood we'll lean on the wall against....

Lawyers, Guns & Money

Posted on June 21, 2010
If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me." ---Jack Handy This has been one of those days....

Nightmare or Sweet Dream?

Posted on June 14, 2010
My wife fixed her famous vegetarian burritos the other night, so we'll blame this on her. The night before last, I dreamed that Jennifer Lopez and I are naked, lying on a couch. This is odd, because in real life, we not only don't know one another, but even her...

The Warrior Elite

Posted on June 12, 2010
I made the mistake recently of visiting a blog that I try to avoid. It's populated by bloggers and commenters who are people that I generally despise. Reading the biographies of those writers for the blog who personally identify themselves or whose identities I've discovered with a few mouse clicks,...

The Black Dog Held At Bay, For One More Day

Posted on June 06, 2010
We Christians, like all other children of planet earth, are born into a reality that will necessarily incorporate grief and lamentation. We accept this actuality and reject any explanation that says our sorrowing is a waste or based on illusion. To unlock the meaning of our ordeals, we climb a...

I Am Ready For The Storm

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Storm by Theodore Roethke 1 Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping, While the wind whines overhead, Coming down from the mountain, Whistling between the arbors, the winding terraces; A thin whine of wires, a rattling and flapping of leaves, And the small street-lamp swinging and slamming against...

"The Horror! The Horror!"

Posted on June 02, 2010
"It is hard to see what sequence of events might prevent a horror beyond the worst imaginings of the Western public."

How Do I Love Me? Let Me Count The Ways!

Posted on May 25, 2010
A few days ago, I had a long talk with a former executive assistant I hadn't spoken with in several years. She was my right hand for many years and basically ran my professional life for me when I left Big Law behind 18 years ago and set out to...

Excuse Me: Are You A Jacktard?

Posted on May 20, 2010
Reading my most recent posts, someone asked me if I was feeling especially cranky these days. No more so than usual, although perhaps for me, "usual" means something different than it does for the average saint lost in contemplation of the divine. The last post was not meant to be...

Bad Santa Meet Bad Christian

Posted on May 15, 2010
Not a day goes by without a friend, client, colleague, family member, casual "acquaintance," or perfect stranger asking me: "How can a jackass like you claim to be a Christian"? I always utter a wry chuckle, hook my thumbs through my suspenders, lean back, glance up briefly at the sky,...

Atomizing Ourselves

Posted on May 09, 2010
One the frustrating experiences of my daily existence is reading some of the pronouncements (some even by extended family members and friends) on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media that blithely denigrate conservative principles and traditional values with declarative sentences that are neither empirically nor logically sound...

Some Days, The Cross Grows Heavy

Posted on May 08, 2010
Growing Old ---Matthew Arnold What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for beauty to forego her wreath? Yes, but not for this alone. Is it to feel our strength? Not our bloom only, but our...

And All That Jazz

Posted on May 05, 2010
CHET BAKER'S FACE By, Fred Moramarco Chet Baker's face is a montage of slides in my mind, a kaleidoscope of his life and our shared time on earth. It's the same face you see on the "Let's Get Lost" album, that you see in Carole Reiff's famous 1955 photo of...

Start Spreading The News

Posted on May 03, 2010
I'm back.

A Generation Gap The Width of the Grand Canyon

Posted on May 03, 2010
Likely, I was officially an old fogy the day I was born. At least, one of my brothers-in-law insists that I have always had the tolerance level for fools of a black rhino bull with a thorn its hoof, situated on the wrong side of a fence from the females...

My Comment Policy

Posted on May 02, 2010
Comments on this site are a privilege, not a right. This is not a forum for public debate, it's a personal web log, my personal web log. If you wish to comment, please make it respectful. I reserve the right, in my sole and absolute discretion, to prohibit all comments,...

Legal Disclaimers

Posted on May 02, 2010
Disclaimer I am providing the content on this blog solely for the reader's general information and/or amusement. Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed on this blog are mine alone, and not the views of any law firm with which I may be associated or any other member of such firm...

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