MY HISTORY OF READING

As long as I can remember, I have been an inveterate reader. As a boy, I especially enjoyed reading sports stories. Gradually my tastes evolved to fiction, especially science fiction. My favorite writer was Poul Anderson. As an adult, I turned more & more to history & biographies. I especially enjoy reading about the Civil War & WW II. And lately, I've been reading travel adventures. I always read after I go to bed at night, sometimes reading until very late at night. It's always been that way for me.

SUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS *    

* Compliments of the Babylon Bee

 Dad's Top 10 (and Totally Safe) Summer Activities for Kids

* Hold a knife safety seminar:  "Cut away from yourself. Do NOT practice knife throws on your brother."

* Offer them $1 to run around the tree in the backyard till they get tired:  It's important to ensure your kids stay fit. They'll love it!

* Institute Cheez-Its-for-lunch Thursdays:  Kids love Cheez-Its! Just put them in a bowl & you're done. Easy recipe!

* Host a competitive survival competition in your own backyard:  Let them see who can survive the longest locked outside the house. Anyone who calls mom is disqualified.

* Play the quiet game:  Always a classic.

* Build a flamethrower without mom finding out:  Work in shifts so you always have a lookout."

TRENDING

"Wife tragically dies as tower of Starbucks cups in car topples." Babylon Bee

"British Parliament forms July 4 Commission to investigate colonial insurrection." Babylon Bee

"Family has 27 mobile devices but somehow only 1 charger." Babylon Bee

"Study finds connection between foyer coffee & sound church theology." Babylon Bee

SCIENTISTS

"A caller to my radio show yesterday, a physician, took strong issue with me regarding COVID-19 therapeutics. He accused me of not believing in science. His last words before we had to go to a commercial break were, "I'm a scientist." Given that I am not a scientist, he assumed that comment would persuade me -- or at least persuade many listeners -- that I was not qualified to disagree with him. If that was his assumption, he was wrong. "I don't care," I responded. "It's irrelevant. Scientists have given science a bad name." Dennis Prager, Townhall

PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN

"I am proud to be an American. Yes, I know that our system of government is not perfect, but I firmly believe that it is the best in the world. We are an exceptional country, not because our people are exceptional, but because we have a different, & exceptional, structure of government. I am grateful to be an American . . . 

"While our imperfect system of government might cause some not to feel proud of our country, I take pride in the fact that our structure of government allows each of us to participate in the governing of our country--we just have to step up & make sure our voices are heard. Today, when many are seeking to silence those who disagree with them, we should instead find a way to more clearly articulate why arguments are valuable, why freedom of speech is at the core of who we are as a country, & how, together, we can learn to disagree, but still work together.

"This hand-to-hand combat is not done through systems but through imperfect people--one on one. To be successful we must focus our eyes on the prize. Just as our founding fathers fought for our freedom over 200 years ago, we must continue to fight to ensure that our government remains our & our freedoms remain intact." Jackie Cushman, column in Norfolk Daily News, 7/8

PRO-LIFE, PRO-ADOPTION

"During the half-century of abortion on demand that Roe made possible in 1973, an estimate 63 million future Americans were snuffed out. Disproportionately Black & brown lives, no one knows how much good they could have done for themselves, their families & the rest of us if they had been given a chance to live. Again, I'm proudly pro-life. But I'm also really, really pro-aDoption. In post-Roe American, it's going to be incumbent on those of us who are pro-life to support adoption in every way possible." Michael Reagan, column in NDN, 7/7