Monthly Archive: March 2009

The firefighter’s tangled web

After all the confusion regarding the story of the allegedly kidnapped Greenville County firefighter earlier this week, this news just broke. Michael Polston, the man who said he was kidnapped at knife point, has...

Bad idea Friday

This is all I have time for today. If there is a Top Ten catch phrase in my family, it’s “bad idea jeans.” My brother just found this older SNL video on Hulu and...

Desperation nation

When I get kidnapped, the first thing I think is, “Man, I could go for a taco.” We’ll get back to that in a minute. A few weeks back, Bruce Lee Windsor (seen in...

The party at the end of the world

Punta del Este, Uruguay–The cabbie drove a straight path through s-shaped curves at 120 kilometers per hour. When the olive-skinned Uruguayan was a child, there no doubt his crayons ran outside the lines. The...

Backward in Uruguay

Punta del Este, Uruguay–I’ve been on the ground in Uruguay for around 36 hours and I’m still not walking in sync with the people. In Chile, no one wanted American dollars. When I got...

Helping where you can

What you see on the left is about 1/3 of what it takes to make a meal for 20 people. One of our neighbors is going through a really horrible thing right now. I...

Camouflage and podcasts

My son is fascinated with the military. A few weeks back, we pulled into Aunt Sue’s, a country meat and three in Pickens County. A convoy of soldiers pulled in behind us. They ate...

Hope and Change hiccup

I like me some Kool-Aid. I like it better when it’s mixed with things that make me even more happy. You mix Hope with Change and I’ll pound them like an Irish Car Bomb...