Recovery From Drug Addiction: A Personal Account

Time is our total capital, and the minutes of our lives are painfully few.

No one recovers entirely in a vacuum, yet there are many legitimate paths to recovery. One well-documented route is natural recovery, also known as spontaneous remission, in which individuals resolve their addiction without formal treatment or participation in support groups. Research suggests that a substantial portion of people — often estimated between 40% and 60% — achieve recovery without professional intervention or mutual-help organizations. Environmental changes, personal motivation, and life circumstances frequently play decisive roles in both the development and resolution of addiction.

The Truth of God for a Lie

Even if it grants you great wealth,  puts food on your family's table, or just another car payment due, it is a grave mistake to be wicked. People think they are invulnerable, that they will never get held responsible for their evil deeds. All criminals in jail believe they are innocent, and all of them thought they'd never get caught. It often involves breaking Man's law, and also God's law at the same time. Evil despises God, because He exists and is good. All men know this. Over 2000 years ago, Paul the Apostle wrote: (Romans 1, verses 18-25, NIV)

May 10, 2026

 My room mate spent nearly half a day "fellowshipping". Half a day? I wondered what the hell he did for all that time-at least four hours-I mean, what can anyone possibly talk about for four hours in one place? This was after an AA meeting, so I suppose they traded stories of their lives before and after alcohol. I can't imagine how any of that could be fun for four hours, or even thirty minutes, to be honest. Yet my roommate and others I've met speak very highly of fellowshipping, as if it were the height of wholesome entertainment. For me, it's the height of boredom, no matter where it takes place. After any meeting, really. Most of the people I've met in fellowship circles are almost all uniformly bland, incurious, and predictable. Yet even so, I am one those types of people who do not crave the company of others-I prefer dogs and cats-and even if I were "fellowshipping" with a group of geniuses, I'd still prefer to be alone. 

For My Grandchildren: Advice Concerning Work

 The only relevant things in the job market are competency, and the ability to get along with co-workers and customers. 

Can you do the job? Perform the task efficiently and competently? Can you overlook your co-worker's obnoxious attitude and carry on with your job? Can you respect the customer's humanity, desire sincerely to help him, and ignore their body odor? Do you refrain from being obnoxious and irritating yourself? Are you kind when people approach you with their concerns? In other words, if you can do the job well, and are not a lizard person, then you'll be successful in the job market, and in the other areas of your life. Why? Because in the job market, competency and tolerance of others are paramount.

This is Why I Hate You, Leftist Bastards

How exquisitely progressive. A beautiful young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska—23 years old, fleeing the horrors of war only to have her throat slashed in a savage, unprovoked stabbing on an American train by a repeat offender with a rap sheet stretching back years—now has her memory whitewashed from a public mural memorializing her in Providence, Rhode Island. Not because the artwork was ugly or offensive in any aesthetic sense, but because, according to the city's enlightened mayor and his cohort of virtue-signaling officials, it simply doesn't represent "our values." Whose values? What values? The ones that prioritize feelings over facts? 

Elementary Music Theory

You experience some sounds as interesting, beautiful, pleasing — or even annoying and disturbing — because music is organized sound (and silence) over time.
"Organized" means there are differences in pitch (how high or low a sound is), and the sounds are arranged with rhythm (when they happen and how long they last). To review:

1. Music — organized sound and silence over time.
2. Rhythm — when and how long sounds (or notes) are played.
3. Interval — the distance in pitch between two notes.
4. Melody — a sequence of notes of different pitches (with rhythm) played over time.
5. Pitch — how high or low a sound is (not how loud — loudness is a separate quality called dynamics or volume).
6. Note — a single musical sound (with pitch and duration).

Why Football in America is Great

 The following is a rewrite from the original, in 2010

Football has been more than just a sport to me; it's been a classroom of life where I've learned the essence of teamwork, the resilience needed after defeat, and the discipline required for success. Each game, each season, has been a lesson in leadership, strategic thinking, and maintaining composure under pressure. But perhaps most importantly, football has taught me about community - how a shared passion can unite people, creating bonds that last well beyond the game. Whether it's learning to accept failure or celebrating success, the field has been my teacher, showing me how to navigate life's plays with grace and determination.