2010/01/15 - Curmudgeon Alley

Disappointing.

I am not sure who the intended audience for this book was. I not sure the authors knew who the intended audience was, either.

I bowled some as a young teenager. I’m in my 50s now and I have started to bowl some again. What I wanted and needed was a book of basic instruction on the proper techniques and strategy of bowling. Having read some of the reviews that is what I thought I was getting.

If I had been able to pick this book Continue reading “Bowling: How to Master the Game”

2010/01/152010/01/15

Dollars are essentially votes

Folks who know me realize that I like to get good value for my dollar. Some folks have called me cheap. I don’t think that is really the case. I just remember a concept I learned back in high school economics. Whenever you make a purchase, you are effectively casting a dollar vote for that product. More to the point you are voting on the pricing of that product. I just like to be careful with my voting.

I was in Walgreens to buy a bag ice. Yes it is a little high in there, but the combined cost of gas to the grocery store and Continue reading “Dollars are essentially votes”

2010/01/152010/01/15

Pat Robertson believes in Voodoo

Quote from The Washington Post article about Pat Robertson’s comments on Haiti:

“Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson says Haiti has been “cursed” because of what he called a “pact with the devil” in its history. His spokesman said the Wednesday comments were based on Voodoo rituals carried out before a slave rebellion against French colonists in 1791.”

Ol’ Pat seems to be in a permanent state of psychosis when it comes to all things religious. He obviously believes in God and more importantly a Devil. I’ve always wondered if Christianity and Islam could exist without the concept of a devil. If there is not a devil running around causing all the evil in the world then that leaves it up to the omnipotent, Abrahamic god. To my way of thinking there is a lot not nice things that go on in this world. Of course, that brings us full circle back to Epicurus’ old questions

I begun ruminating on his comments, and I decided that he must believe in Voodoo also. Why else would he think that a ritual performed 219 years ago had the power to eject the colonial power out of Haiti? Makes you wonder about what else Ol’ Pat believes.