Category Archives: Blogging Evangel

Some Thoughts On The Recently Concluded BlogCon In Charlotte (From Someone Who Wasn’t There)

Sometime back in the ’70s, I read an issue of Guitar Player magazine with Carlos Santana as the cover story. This was back in his Devadip Carlos Santana days when he followed guru Sri Chinmoy, his picture always next to … Continue reading

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Bit Of A Pet Peeve

First, a quick reminder of the four tenets of the blogging evangel: The ability to broadcast ones opinion neither elevates nor validates said opinion. Blog from and for the heart, not the bank account. Answer your e-mail every time all … Continue reading

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Gettin’ Riehl

Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. One of the great myths perpetrated by blogging aficionados is the notion of our avocation being a … Continue reading

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Who Says Who’s On First?

We have many running jokes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of them involve most of our professional sports teams… well, teams consisting of people who get paid. Calling them professional is a bit of a stretch. But I … Continue reading

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Who Cares If This Will Play In Peoria

Still running short of material, alas. Thus, for your dining and dancing pleasure here is yesterday’s column from the Examiner. This one took a long time to write. I felt the need to constantly examine (no pun intended) the whys … Continue reading

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Only 526,775 Places Behind (And Proud Of It, Sort Of)

As I write this, God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We) is the five hundred and twenty-sixth thousandth, seven hundred and seventy-sixth best selling book on Amazon. Culture Of Corruption by Michelle Malkin is first, joining the most recent tomes … Continue reading

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Be The Better

Yesterday, I briefly ruminated about why the now-infamous Playboy article from earlier this week discussing assorted conservative women in decidedly less than genteel terms wasn’t that big of a deal to me.  Apparently I am alone in feeling this way. … Continue reading

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The Speech I Won’t Be Giving This Weekend (Part Four Of Four)

Finishing what I started in the first three posts: Before getting to the fourth, final, and to me most important tenet of the blogging evangel, indulge me for a minute while I remind you of something I said at the … Continue reading

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The Speech I Won’t Be Giving This Weekend (Part Three Of Four)

Resuming from yesterday: The third tenet of the blogging evangel is quite simple, really: Answer your e-mail every time all the time. No, I am not referring to the missives we all get from some grieving relative or financial expert … Continue reading

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The Speech I Won’t Be Giving This Weekend (Part Two Of Four)

Picking up where I left off the other day: The second tenet of the blogging evangel is this: Blog from and for the heart, not the bank account. This should be quite self-explanatory.  And yet so many among us miss … Continue reading

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