How Many Fantasy Teams Are Too Many?

by Kevin Burton    If having one fantasy football team is great fun (which it is), wouldn’t having more than one team be even more fun?    That is the question I asked last year, in my second year as a fantasy manager. I answered it in the affirmative. Yes indeed, great big ridiculous fun! …

Coast To Coast: California Dreamin’

by Kevin Burton    Texas has its outsized pretentions, but California for most of a century was considered the American promised land. This was reflected throughout popular culture, including in music.    So there is no shortage of songs we could use to represent the Golden State in our summer rock and roll road trip …

K-State’s Deuce Vaughn Wows Cowboys Fans

by Kevin Burton    It was just one pre-season game, so let’s not get crazy with this yet. But Deuce Vaughn may be about to silence his critics.    I sure hope so.    Vaughn was a consensus All-American running back at Kansas State in 2021 and a unanimous All-American last year, according to Wikipedia. …

Always Keep That Fire Of Prayer Burning

by Kevin Burton    From the book of Leviticus and the story of Old Testament sacrifices, comes a never-outdated concept of ongoing prayer to God.    This is in follow up to messages by Dane Massey the last two Sundays on Page 7 on the importance and difficulty of prayer. This week we hear from …

ADA Enforcement Is Tough Sledding

by Kevin Burton    I let the 33rd anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act pass July 26 without writing anything about it. Why?    It was partly because I ran out of time, as I was preparing to travel to the Beep Baseball World Seies in Oklahoma.    But it was mostly because I …

Ten Brilliant Facts About Braille

by Kelli Finger (from Mental Floss website)    Braille is a tactile system that blind people use to learn to read and write, invented in 1824 by a blind French educator named Louis Braille.     He revolutionized an existing writing and reading system that allowed blind people to enjoy books  and communication. I certainly don’t know …

Volvo’s Unselfish Act Saved Millions Of Lives

by Douglas Bell Forbes Magazine    Volvo proudly proclaims that: “few people have saved as many lives as Nils Bohlin.” And they are right.     Nils Bohlin  is the little-known Volvo engineer who invented the V-type three-point safety belt in 1959, and saw his innovation through to universal adoption across the motor industry. His new …

Five-Dollar Words At A Deep Discount

by Kevin Burton    Some lamps that my mother has and loves, I don’t like. I think they’re ugly.    For years my insult of choice was to call them “obtuse.”  But I was using that word incorrectly.    My good buddies at Merriam-Webster say obtuse means: “not pointed or acute” or “ of an …

Prevailing Prayer Is Free, But It Will Cost You

by Dane Massey      (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.)      Matthew Henry said, “When God intends great mercy for His people, He sets them a-praying.”     Indeed, when God wants anything accomplished in His kingdom, He moves men to pray. God is …

Noisy Cauliflower, A Growing Concern?

by Kevin Burton    Certain food just calls out my name. Pizza comes to mind. Know what I mean?    And it doesn’t have to shout either. I am listening for its call on Friday nights, really most nights.    I haven’t heard too much from cauliflower though. But last week I learned I should …