Bruce's Thoughts

• THINKING ABOUT TIM RUSSERT…AND ME

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  Like many, I was shocked and saddened by the recent death of Tim Russert of NBC News. I liked Mr. Russert. Because of my ministry responsibilities, I don’t get to watch “Meet The Press” on Sunday mornings. I knew him from his commentator/expert analyst role [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2008, 7:55pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• REMEMBERING THE ALAMO

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  I am writing this on the morning of March 6. For most of you this date has little special significance. For me it’s almost like a religious holiday. On this date in 1836 a band of less than 200 defenders—which included the famous Davy Crockett— [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2008, 11:43am EST
  by Bruce Revel

• CONFLICT OF INTEREST??

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  [To those faithful few regular visitors to this blog: my apologies for having not posted anything recently. Thanks for still checking in.]
  I have always been interested in politics and current events. I was the news junky [before there [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2008, 3:29pm EST
  by Bruce Revel

• Imagine It Is Your Birthday

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  Your birthday is special; it’s a time you look forward to celebrating with friends and family. But imagine if this is what your birthday was like.
  
  Imagine it is your birthday. At first just your family and a few friends celebrate it with you. [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2007, 5:16pm EST
  by Bruce Revel

• Second-Hand Profanity

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  Recently, my wife and I were having dinner in a restaurant that is near the campus of Salisbury University. It was an early Saturday evening so, not surprisingly, the crowded restaurant had many patrons in their 20’s.
  The restaurant was noisy, which was to [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2007, 4:15pm EST
  by Bruce Revel

• Taxes…The ...

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  Taxes…The Beatles were right again!
  What do the Beatles and Maryland’s current special legislative session have in common?
  As a Beatles’ fan for more than 40 years, it never ceased to amaze me how much insight into life these young men from Liverpool [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2007, 1:37pm EST
  by Bruce Revel

• Is That It?

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  Could there be a less fulfilling World Series than the one just concluded by Boston and Colorado? There have been Delmarva Shorebirds-Hickory Crawdads series with more excitement. [These are Single A minor league affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburg Pirates respectively.]
  
  Is it [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2007, 3:29pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• THE SHELL GAME

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  Some things never go out of style. Take the shell game for example. You may have seen this game—or a variation of it such as “3 Card Monte”—on the midway of a fly-by-night carnival. The concept is very simple: the slyly smiling con artist running [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2007, 3:31pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• WHEN WOULD YOU GO?

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  I find the idea of time travel fascinating. It was a key element of storytelling in one of my all-time favorite television series The Twilight Zone, the original created by Rod Serling not the lame imitation of a few years ago. Classic time travel stories [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2007, 7:52pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• LEST WE FORGET

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  My local newspaper, The Daily Times [Salisbury, Maryland], ran a front page story today that was hardly a scoop. It tells the sad story of the rapidly fading corporate remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001.
  
  In the years immediately following 2001, September [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2007, 4:10pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• What You Will Not See In The Washington Post

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  What You Will Not See In the Washington Post
  There are fewer things I find more offensive than biased attempts at political correctness. A recent example of by a virtuoso purveyor of biased political correctness, the Washington Post, is a prime example.
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  Posted: September 02, 2007, 8:13pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• Michael Vick and a Wake-Up Call about Dog Fighting

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  Even if you’re not a sports fan, you know about the legal troubles of Atlanta Falcons’ quarterback Michael Vick. Mr. Vick is known in the NFL as an escape artist who manages to elude the opponents’ biggest, toughest defensive linemen. However, he found that not [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2007, 4:04pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• WHAT A GREAT GIFT!

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  This is a picture of a miracle in a box. Recently my wife gave me a Garmins® global positioning device, commonly known as a GPS, for me to use when I travel by automobile. I confess I am not a tech person and therefore [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2007, 4:32pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• Where has he been?

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  Did his computer die?
  Did he die?
  Did he get mad and quit?
  Did he run out of things to say already?
  Who’s he anyway?
  These may be things anyone who has visited this blog before has been wondering, if they bothered to think about [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2007, 4:40pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• The Miracle of Our Freedom

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  On the Fourth of July it is usual for people to wax eloquently about freedom. We symbolically break out powdered wigs, quill pens, and flintlock muskets to celebrate another observance of that radical revolutionary defiance of the most powerful nation in the world at the [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2007, 10:26am EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Go to Heaven

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  Sometimes we can get so caught up in the hectic day-to-day flurry of activity that we can lose sight of some important things of this life. Few are guiltier of this than me.
  I came across an article from christianitytoday.com that caught my interest; it is entitled “10 Things You [...]

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  Posted: June 24, 2007, 1:23pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• Wisdom from Dad

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  On this Father’s Day, like many I have been thinking about the wisdom which I got from my Dad. My father is Clifford Revel, know to everyone as Cliff. He died in 1998 after an 18 month bout with a particularly nasty form of cancer. I speak of him in [...]
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  Posted: June 16, 2007, 1:47pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• Having a Bad Day?

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  So, you think you are having a bad day? What is your definition of a bad day?
  • Did you turn off the alarm clock, overslept, and were late for work?
  • Has everything you have done today seemed wrong?
  • Did you forget your [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2007, 7:24pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• Sgt Pepper's 40th Anniversary

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  Saturday, June 2, marked the 40th anniversary of the release of one of the greatest albums of all time Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. Can it really have been 40 years ago?
  Sgt. Pepper was released at the beginning of the summer [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2007, 8:44pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel

• Centenniel of a Legend

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  Saturday, May 26, marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. That name may not ring a bell. After Marion’s family moved to southern California, he got a summer job working in the movies. They changed Marion’s name to John Wayne, know affectionately as [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2007, 7:07pm EDT
  by Bruce Revel