The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog

I don't drink the Kool-Aid. For Anyone.

10 Days Left…and 30 Posts to Go…

August 30, 2010

And I will make it, I promise, though it will mean that I have a lot of writing to do over the next week and a half before the final vestiges of my youth wither away like a fallen leaf in autumn.  Let’s start, as I reminisce over my life (and it’s my life, so…

Disingenuity from Liberals Frosts Me

August 19, 2010

Does it you? Before I quit this blogging thing—or a la Brett Favre, say I’m going to quit, and then not quit, but maybe quit, decide to continue but then really quit, except if and when I keep on blogging—one of the things that I’ve been meaning to write about is two particularly galling examples…

Buffoonery in the Name of Jesus…

August 19, 2010

Is still buffoonery. It is one thing—one appropriate thing, of course—to stand for Christ and His truth.  It’s quite another to do what these people are proposing, which constitutes, not a stand for Jesus, but a needlessly offensive, counterproductive affront to people of another faith.  Never mind the fact that that other faith is, as…

50 Years of Life, a Retrospective: Part II B.1

August 14, 2010

Oops…it dawned on me that there was one other sports moment that had to make the list: Phil Mickelson winning the 2004 Masters.  If you could watch that event unfold and say that golf on TV is always boring, well, I got nothing for ya. Phil Finally Wins a Major Honorable Mention in my little…

50 Years of Life, a Retrospective, Part IIB

August 14, 2010

Continuing the ten coolest sporting moments I’ve witnessed live: Kerri Strug’s Gold Medal Vault, 1996 Atlanta Weird that three of my top ten involve Olympics, which I’m not a huge fan of, but they all were feats of tremendous courage and fortitude. The Epic in Miami – This was possibly the greatest football game I’ve…

50 Years of Life, A Retrospective: Part II

August 14, 2010

The Top Ten Sporting Events I Have Seen Live (no, not in person, but on TV…silly).  They are listed in no particular order, and they are my list, meaning that some of them may have no meaning to others.  Deal with it.  Since I’m adding video for all of these I can, this is the…