Rich's Blog

  I just came across this post by my business partner Danny Thornton and really believe in what he is saying here. With the issues facing some homeowners today, a remodification may be the way to go to try to give them some breathing room. Although the FHA Secure program had the best of intention...

On July 26th my business partner, Danny Thornton and I launched the Athletic Alley website. In the six weeks since then, there has been a lot of tweaking of the site's features. Some of the tweaking has been for aesthetic reasons and some for operational reasons. We have seen the addition of an ...

On May 15, 2008 I joined with tens of thousands of bloggers from all over the world in giving voice to those who did not have a voice. In that post, I wrote about Chinese journalist, writer, and poet Shi Tao and the betrayal of his expectation of privacy by the internet giant Yahoo. If you misse...

Who could be more iconic of the late 70's to mid 80's excesses than Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong? With there big screen debut in 1978's Up In Smoke, the duo not only struck gold but were about to become the pioneering faces of a new genre, the stoner flick. Now do not get me wrong, I am not endor...

As everyone knows, Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate chose Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate this past Friday (08-29-2008). I did an brief bio post on Governor Palin because I didn't know who she was and thought that perhaps ma...

It has just been announced on Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's website that he has selected Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate. Palin is in her second year as a first term governor and former mayor. She typically garners approval ratings in the 80% t...

*VOTE* Are You Registered? You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. -Maya Angelou (excerpt from Still I Rise) I first registered to vote in Corinth, Mississippi in 1988 when I turned 18...go ahead, do the ma...

As many of you may know there is an enormous blogosphere that exists in cyberspace. The influence exerted by the blogosphere plays an integral part in the shaping of both the cyber world and the real world. Separation because of distance and time is continuously contracting thanks to the immediat...

Thursday, August 28th marks the opening day for NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I-A schools. The SEC has two games scheduled both of which is are interconference games, Vanderbilt (SEC) at Miami of Ohio (MAC), and North Carolina State (ACC) at South Carolina (SEC). The A...

Earlier today, I did another post on my garden. That post featured the pollinators who make the garden's bounty possible. As you can probably tell from my posts, I really love to take photos of my garden. Photos provide a visual record of the changes that have taken place. From the humble beginni...