CONFESSIONS OF A STARBUCKS PASTOR

With the Bruce Jenner appearance change and being heralded as courageous for his new name and attitude - not to mention prominent cover shoot on a big deal magazine - we now have NAACP leader Rachel Dolezel pretending to be black. Talking heads are lumping them both in the same bucket. If that is what they feel , we must then understand and support. Apparently both parties have felt they identified more as a female/black since childhood. Both have altered their appearances to reflect their true inner selves. The fake black lady's parents are shaking their heads while new-woman Bruce's family is applauding. No matter how many surgeries or self-tannings, each of these people still have the same DNA they were born with. And in Rachel's case - the same birth parents even though she shows a photo of a black dad. Both of these people have to undergo extra effort in order to appear as the person they claim is their authentic self. Since it is on-trend to identify with what ...

Love that 90's movie with Sandra Bullock. While You Were Sleeping . Not only the story, but how we got to see it in the theaters with a bambino in a stroller. The kidlet who needed constant motion. We sat in the unoccupied handicapped section and pushed his ride to and fro in order to see the movie with the same name. As a more grown up person with some antenae, every time I see a major media source focus on just one story (for ratings?), I always wonder what else is going on in the world that we aren't hearing about. What are we missing? Fast forward to NOW. ISIS (I refuse to accomodate their continual name changes) is ravaging northern Africa and pummeling the Middle East. It also has a vast presence in Indonesia we rarely hear about. When was ISIS born? Why didn't we hear more about this Pac Man Terrorist organization before it took so much power and rage on? Inklings of an ISIS in some form has existed far back into Osama Bin Laden's reign. Recent documents p...