* Attend church irregularly.
* Spend more time doing good. Get rid of racial and gay jokes. Accept diversity. Practice tolerance. Give up the notion that your way is the only way.
* Rather than collecting possessions, collect friends.
* Give 10% of your income to those less fortunate.
* Don't believe everything you hear, even if the messenger is wearing a collar, robe, or designer suit. Be particularly skeptical if the messenger has a TV program. It may not be your soul that they are interested in.
* If you think your God is bigger and better than mine, how about walking on a bed of red-hot coals, kind of as a sign?
* If you're practicing right-wing, Christian, Republicanism, I'd advise you to get out. It's not nice trying to fool God into thinking there are only white people prone towards stupidity.

We are each fashioned after the divine. We each have a spark of the beginning in us. We should treat one another accordingly. There's nothing fancy about it.

I don't mind people making mistakes. Hell, I've made a few over the years myself. What I don't like are people who make mistakes and won't admit it, or try to gloss over it, or cover them up. I don't like people who can't live up to what they do. They don't seem genuine to me. Being human means making mistakes. It's part of the territory, part of our DNA makeup. In fact, it's quite possible we evolved as a mistake. I'm guessing God would have preferred all baboon's, or gorilla's. So mistakes are part of our nature, that dark, lonely, painful, bit of a reminder that God goofed and maybe made us by mistake.

"THINK OCCASIONALLY OF THE SUFFERING OF WHICH YOU SPARE YOURSELF THE SIGHT." Albert Schweitzer

-U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 3840
-U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq: Official military count: 28,176
Estimated by reports: 100,000
-U.S. soldiers treated for mental problems: 12,000
-U.S. soldier suicides: 148
-Iraqi civilians killed since invasion: Estimated at over one million. (Lancet Report).

"Animals have two functions in today's society: To be delicious and to fit well." Greg Proops

Speaking of animals: We have always thought we were "king of the forest." The rest of creation should bow down before us. We're smart, imaginative, can use tools, and we don't operate out of sheer instinct. Yet man has created wars, religious intolerance, revenge, pollution, political talk shows. We have invented guns, bombs, weapons of mass destruction, Ann Coulter. Ask a dolphin who it thinks is smarter.

President Bush is looking to remain relevant as a lame-duck president. I got some bad news for him. He wasn't relevant when he was involved with the Texas Rangers, (he was the managing partner after putting up only 1% of the cost, thanks to daddy), or when he was in oil, (Arbusto and Spectrum 7 Energy Corp.,both bought by some of daddy's friends before they went bust), or when he was Governor of Texas, (he presided over 143 executions, the most ever for a governor, drove the educational system into the ground, and elevated Texas to the most polluted state in the union), or when he landed on that aircraft carrier masquerading as a soldier. So I ain't quite sure how he intends on becoming relevant now? He has taken us down mediocrity lane, which pretty much sums up his life journey. HAIL TO THE CHUMP!