“He who is quick to borrow is slow to pay.” – German proverb The odds say if you are reading this then you owe money to someone or something. An October 2023 report from the Federal Reserve stated 77 percent of American families have some form of debt, most commonly from home mortgages, credit cards,… Read more

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” – Albert Camus Have you seen Dos Equis, the Mexican beer brand, recently brought back their fictional advertising star, the Most Interesting Man in the World? Commercial snippets of the suave character’s adventures do a good job… Read more

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” – John Kenneth Galbraith It is not often we get a brand new policy topic upon which to ponder. When we do it can be fun to sit back and watch how groups and coalitions form around the issue, especially before Democrats… Read more

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once and of their shadows deep.” – William Butler Yeats In Alabama no person can be elected or appointed as a full-time state or… Read more

“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” – John 1:5 from the King James Bible I have never been a wake-up-and-seize-the-day kind of person. Wish I could be. Yet, most mornings I do manage to force myself to get up and walk our two high-energy, black Labrador retrievers through the… Read more

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how, but what is extraordinarily important is this – who will count the votes, and how.” – attributed to Joseph Stalin from the memoirs of Stalin’s former secretary Boris Bazhanov If you caught President Donald Trump’s primetime address last Thursday on the American… Read more

“… a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European, socialist sport.” – former American Football League quarterback and U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp, R-New York My Sunday School teacher brought up this Jack Kemp quote as the World Cup got underway a few weeks ago. She noted the cost… Read more

“More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn’t read.” – Algernon Moncrieff in the play “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde They always dissolve the senate. Napoleon, Mussolini, Pinochet, even Darth Vader’s boss, Emperor Palpatine, dissolved the Galactic Senate to take full control of the evil empire in the “Star… Read more

“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” – spoken by Benjamin Franklin before signing the Declaration of Independence, though likely not originated by him My family has had quite a month. On the first day of June, my wife, daughter and I departed on our biggest family journey so far… Read more

“Mrs. Hogwallop up an’ R-U-N-N-O-F-T.” – Wash Hogwallop, a character played by Frank Collison in the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” The field is finally set for this year’s general election in November. Well … it is set unless you are reading this from Alabama’s 1st, 2nd, 6th or 7th congressional districts, but that… Read more