Well, he’s certainly gotten people talking. This past week actor Angus T. Jones made headlines after his video condemnation of the television show that has made him a very wealthy teen-ager. Depending on your perspective he was either taking a courageous stand for his faith or he was joining in former co-star Charlie Sheen in…
QRC Disappointments
That time of the year is coming again, you know when we can sit around our television sets and watch people’s hopes, dreams and aspirations crushed and ground into the dust. It was advertising guru Roy Williams who wrote “Every dream of the future is a seed. But until your dream falls into the ground…
They don’t have a prayer
So, Kim Kardashian had to apologize for comments that she made on Twitter. And you might be thinking, “ and this is worthy of a Penn?” Well yeah, because of what she had tweeted. It appears that Kardashian had the audacity to post “Praying for everyone in Israel,” and she followed that with, “Praying for…
QRC Forgiveness
He just kept right on smiling. It didn’t matter what they did or what they said he just kept right on smiling. They were American army officers and he was their Korean house boy, and for whatever reason they gave him a hard time about everything, he wasn’t fast enough, he wasn’t polite enough, he…
Caught! He got caught. The fact that a high ranking government official was caught cheating on his wife really shouldn’t be a newsworthy item. We’ve seen it happen with mayors, senators, governors and Presidents. That doesn’t make it right, it just makes it common. But this guy was supposed to be able to keep secrets. …
QRC. Failure
The year was 1863 and the US Civil War was in its second year. Historians tell us that at that point if you were keeping score the Confederate Army was ahead. The War had shifted its focus from the Southern States and General Robert E Lee was embarking on his second Invasion of the North…
What is in a name?
She was proud of the name she carried and tried to her best to add to the legacy of that name. Most of us heard the tragic news of the sinking of the HMS Bounty this past week. What you may not know is that the crewmember whose body was recovered was Claudene Christian. Does…
QRC Temptation
QRC: Temptation We’ve all been there, at one time or another. Standing on the very cusp of doing what we know is wrong. And we have to decide; will we do what we know we shouldn’t do or do we make the right decision. And each of us is tempted by something different in our…
The Price of Leadership
The Bounty has been lost. . . again. I first heard about the problems the Bounty was having early Monday morning as the initial reports came out and I followed the progress of her loss and the rescue of most of her crew with rapt fascination. It’s an interesting quirk of human nature that I…
QRC- Intro
QRC Intro They are everywhere. You can find them in magazines, in newspapers, on bill boards, stores and restaurants. You know what I’m talking about those funky little square bar codes that are showing up everywhere. They are called Quick Response Codes and they were first developed by a subsidiary of Toyota in 1994 for…