Finding Christ on the Shop Floor September 15, 2025 — 16:45 We live in a world overflowing with anger, confusion, and distraction. But one thing has become clear — churches are filling again. People are tired of the noise. They are disgusted with the emptiness that social media, endless distraction, and the so-called “woke” philosophy … Read more
Selfish Ambition and the Root of Evil I’m not going to blame the problems of today on video games. That’s too easy, and honestly, it misses the point. What we’re seeing in our country and in our communities is much deeper than pixels on a screen. The real problem lies in policies and priorities that … Read more
Free Speech, Violence, and the Line We Just Crossed September 10, 2025 — 14:55 Charlie Kirk, political commentator and activist. I just got a message from one of my instructors saying Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. I had to ask who he was, because I don’t keep a scoreboard of famous names. But … Read more
Back in My Lane Chaos Theory • September 9, 2025 One man’s opinion, and that’s all this is. I’m done compiling FBI spreadsheets. Not because the facts don’t matter—they do—but because almost nobody cares enough to dig for them. I could spend hours adding twelve months for every category, cross-checking every cell, and it won’t … Read more
One Man’s Opinion Chaos Theory • September 9, 2025 One man’s opinion—nothing more, nothing less. I’m sick and tired of hearing the media drone on about crime rates, spinning numbers to fit whatever story they want to tell. I don’t care about the spin. I care about the facts—the numbers—what the data actually shows. By … Read more
Enough Chaos for Today September 9, 2025 After accusing the media and politicians of bending numbers to fit their narrative, I was challenged: show your work, show your data. That sent me deeper into the weeds of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports than I ever intended to go. I know the spin is real. It’s … Read more
The Dilemma September 9, 2025 I’ve been pouring over the FBI’s crime data, trying to make sense of it and do the math correctly. The sheer volume of information is overwhelming. For each category—homicide, aggravated assault, you name it—the FBI breaks things down not just by state, but by month, and even by jurisdiction. It’s … Read more
Lazy Numbers, Lazy Narratives Draft for private review • September 9, 2025 I recently sat down with what I thought was a simple goal: pull crime statistics from the FBI’s website and put them into a form the average person could understand. It didn’t take long before I realized this wasn’t simple at all. The … Read more
Why I Write — Reflections on History, Family, and the Pressure Relief Valve By qball45 • September 5, 2025 Today I’ve been pouring out words again. Thank God for my audio recorder and transcriber—without them, none of this would get out of my head and onto a page. Writing is so much easier now than … Read more
Narrator’s Voice Since I’ve discovered the best technique for me to convey my mental words into written form, I’ve also discovered something unexpected: my narrator’s voice. It hit me during something as simple as reading a bedtime story to my granddaughter. Instead of fumbling and stumbling over the words, I’ve found myself slipping into that … Read more