Rick on January 5th, 2009

You can safely say that I don’t get out much. Local cultural events here on the prairie - whether they be live concerts or cow-tipping - don’t manage too often to shift me from the schedule I need to keep for work. Movies, no matter the hype, are rarely going to get me to go [...]

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Rick on January 4th, 2009

When you play in a praise team band, you have to have the ability to change everything on very short notice. Therefore, I propose this as the new praise team mascot and motto for all denominations that have more than a piano player/organist on the platform on Sunday mornings.

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Rick on December 31st, 2008

He’s at it again. Michael Newdow, American atheism’s poster child, now wants to remove references to God from the upcoming Presidential Inauguration. You have to admire the chutzpah of the guy - he also plans to attend so long as one of California’s senators will provide him with a ticket.

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Rick on December 20th, 2008

OK, I’d like a show of hands - how many of you folks have ever heard of the Milgram Experiment? Freshman year, Psych 101? Anybody?
For those who don’t have a clue what I’m talking about,  Stanley Milgram was a Yale psychologist back in the 1960’s who was interested in how the  phenomenon of group evil [...]

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Rick on December 18th, 2008

Before anyone calls me a Grinch (which designation I’d happily accept, given the outcome of the tale), I’m going on record as not having been fond of a lot of what we now call holidays - holy days - since I started reading and researching them. If you are caught up in the cultural thing, [...]

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