Time for us to be builders, not just consumers
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 20:54:48 -0700 | your-story
There is a wonderful bridge that I have never seen in person, with a wonderful sentiment. "Trenton makes, the world takes." It's a relic of a time when American working men and women made things, a time when people were...
Left or right? Let's dump both and give the grownups a chance
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 20:56:33 -0700 | political-news
I think the political junkies among us might be surprised at how tolerant a lot of Americans are toward opposing views. The other day, shortly before dawn, I was having a conversation with an old cowboy, semi-retired from rodeoing and...
Don't forget most important of the wedding vows
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 20:57:09 -0700 | your-story
I was out hiking this morning, the beginning of my final week here in Texas, and I found myself thinking about something someone said during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal in the late 1990s. "If his wife can't trust him, how can...
James shows why he'll never be the man
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-11-02 07:37:51 -0700 | sports-news
It is beginning to look as though Lyndon Johnson's reputation is safe. Whether you like Johnson or not, it is fairly apparent that the cowardly route LeBron James took to the rest of his basketball career means that the former...
Time for America to stop eating its seed corn
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:17:56 -0700 | political-news
Farmers have known for a long time that you should never eat your seed corn. When the food starts to run out, when hunger pangs get stronger, there is a temptation to reach back into the pantry and start eating...
Bageant has the message -- society is broken
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:19:44 -0700 | your-story
When I grow up, I want to be Joe Bageant. I've written about the author of "Deer Hunting With Jesus" before, and I know I have mentioned that he is a person I truly admire. He lives the life many...
Parents should always sustain children's dreams
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:19:45 -0700 | your-story
When I was 10 or 11 years old, I used to visit my grandparents for two or three weeks in the summertime. They lived about 120 miles from where we did in Ohio, and they lived in a small town...
You are the center of your world, and you can change it
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:20:27 -0700 | your-story
When I was a kid, one expression I heard quite often from my parents was, "The world doesn't revolve around you." It made sense, I suppose. It was all about taming a runaway ego, but the one thing I don't...
Not in the Oath, but it makes good sense
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:21:10 -0700 | your-story
I am stunned. I have been quoting what I thought was the Hippocratic Oath as a good rule for dealing with other people in everyday life. "First, do no harm." But when I looked for the actual wording, I found...
Step outside of two evils and work for good
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:21:42 -0700 | your-story
Have you ever in your life cast a vote that was for something other than the lesser of two evils? I'm pretty sure I haven't. And with politics getting worse and worse in this country, I have come to the...
SELF-ishness is the bane of our existence
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:22:08 -0700 | your-story
How many people do you know who are really happy? How many people do you know who have enough money, enough possessions, enough power or enough fame? Most of us have heard the expression that self-interest makes the world go...
Stop arguing about stuff that doesn't matter at all
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:22:40 -0700 | your-story
I have a friend on Facebook -- actually my oldest and dearest friend in the world -- who seems obsessed with telling people "truths" they don't want to hear. He's either exposing the "hoax" of global warming, espousing some bizarre...
Bible's message is about love, not money
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:23:58 -0700 | political-news
The more I learn, the less I know. And the more I learn about what other people are saying, the more I realize that there are some seriously wacky people out there. I was following some links through the Web...
Comfort zone? Who needs a comfort zone?
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:24:28 -0700 | your-story
If there's one thing too many of us do, it's live our lives entirely within our personal comfort zones. Even when we do things good for us -- such as exercising -- as often as not, we set a routine...
Rioting when your team wins is just stupid
Posted by: Michael Rappaport
Bandera :: TX :: USA | updated 2012-07-28 04:25:04 -0700 | sports-news
I'm a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers, at least to the point that I actually found myself feeling a little bit anxious after the Boston Celtics took a 3-2 lead in the NBA Finals. I didn't care enough to...
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