The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog

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

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

May 31, 2010

That day would be today. No, that’s not news, I grant, but today is a day unlike any I’ve had in my life.  Yesterday, I completed my time as pastor at Red Oak, an Evangelical Free Church.  Today, I am opening shift manager at the Macland Crossing Chick-fil-A in Marietta, GA. I’ve not been in…

Pants on the Ground, Y'all…

May 29, 2010

My old friend Kerri Linto Smith with her cornfed interpretation of a new American classic…

Neville Obama?

May 23, 2010

Charles Krauthammer makes the case that this presidency is disastrous with regard to foreign policy.

Crash and Burn, Pennsylvania-Style

May 19, 2010

I lived for over 13 years in NW PA, arriving there just a few months removed from a highly-contested U.S. Senate election in which Arlen Specter narrowly beat a Democrat lady who was still incensed about his rough treatment of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings (one of his few shining moments in…

Scrabble, Episode 3

May 18, 2010

OK, so on the first show, I won big, and then in the second show, I should have lost in the first round, then had a cakewalk in the second, and got impatient and blew a decent shot at the 5 grand in the Jackpot round.  That show was the last taping of the day,…

Scrabble, Episode 2, Part 2

May 18, 2010

In which I make a dumb mistake and maybe blow 5 grand.  Of course, if you think it’s easy, you try it…