November 14, 2009 | Posted by Steve What a wonderful week it was for the NoMoreGreed eagle-eyed reporting team! From bimbos to bozos, it was a week full of chuckles, jaw-droppers, and head-scratchers. Let’s get right to the mayhem…
Bimbos, Busts, and Boneheads
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October 1, 2009 | Posted by Steve I’m a pretty simple guy. Once I find something that works for me I rarely deviate from the plan. Take our cars, for example. It took me years to realize that all the Fords, Chevys, and Dodges we were buying may have been cheap, but they sure didn’t hold up too well over the long haul. So once I bought my first Toyota, I realized it was game over. Hard as it is to admit for this grandson of a “made in the USA” union welder, but I’m probably not going to be buying much other than Toyotas unless Toyota completely goes off the rails and starts turning out crap.
(LOVE that 50mpg I get with the Prius, by they way!)
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve The following postings are a compilation of a five-part series I did considering Brian McLaren’s decision to observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and one person’s reaction to my concern over McLaren’s choice. It’s called, “Who am I to judge…?” and it captures the essence of the tension in today’s post-modern Christian world between being being “judgmental” and “discerning.”
“Who am I to judge…?” Part I : Christianity Goes Ramadan
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve Okay, we have finally finished our trip through the spooky McLaren forest and are dusting ourselves off now that we have reached the other side. Now it’s time to talk turkey.
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve If you have been following along at home, I said way back in Part II of this series that the, “Who am I to judge…?” question dropped a barge-load of heavy duty questions at my spiritual dock.
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve The problem with a line like, “Who am I to judge…?” is that it springs up like a relativistic cobra from the dense underbrush of legitimate theological debate. It is intended to do one thing; stop you dead in your tracks. It makes you consciously pause, wondering whether the snake bite about to gitcha on the leg is worth the all the trouble of contorting into a human pretzel, planting your mouth on the wound to take a good suck on the venom.
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve The essence of the obviously rhetorical, “Who am I to judge…?” question is simple.
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September 15, 2009 | Posted by Steve I have been thinking a lot lately about the spiritual tension between the words “judgment” and “discernment. “ This trip through the wonderland of religious semantics all started when Brian McLaren, noted Christ Follower (aka: “Christian”) and de-facto global head of what is known as “The Emergent Church,” publicly announced his intent to observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. My first reaction to this news was, as you might imagine…
“Bald-headed, bearded guy say what?!”
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September 10, 2009 | Posted by Steve My family and I sat down tonight to a civics lesson in why Barack Obama is the Prez and George Bush is a fast-fading memory. The man can just plain speak and when he does speak he speaks very plainly. He knows how to articulate tough issues in simple terms and hits all the emotional touch points along the way. Of course as old Joe Wilson (R – South Carolina) reminded us, some folks just don’t trust the Prez. (C’mon, Joe. Take a chill pill, will ya?)
Maybe that’s because Obama knows how to slide one by every now and then. The Republican response missed the chance to bring Obama’s curve ball to light. More about that in a moment…
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June 22, 2009 | Posted by Steve As promised, I skipped Jon and Kate Plus 8 tonight. Instead, I hopped on the treadmill, fired up the Playstation 2, and played a riveting game of “Burnout Revenge.” (Hey, we all have our vices. Mine is ramming computer-controlled cars off bridges. Who needs “road rage?”) By comparison, Burnout Revenge turned out to be a relatively mild game of bumper cars compared to what was going on over at TLC. The news reports afterward made the story abundantly clear.
The Gosselins have filed for divorce.
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