You Know You’re Broke When…

1. A good part of your daily agenda is to seek out the closest person to borrow money from. 2. You make your dates pay. 3. Your idea of a date is a dollar movie, dollar menu, but she pays and has to pick you up. 4. You look forward to ramen for dinner. 5. Your wife has to get a second …

The Joplin Tornado Hits Home

A few days ago, I received a text from a very good friend that told me that the house that she was in got hit by a tornado. I was appalled. She said that it leveled the whole town–the house that she was in had no roof or walls when they came out of the basement.  In the 35 minute long …

Apocalypse Not

Hello?  Hello? Anybody out there? As I stare at this computer screen, I glance to the corner and I see the time: 10:59 pm MST.  It appears that I survived the rapture.  However, it has yet to be seen if I was just one of the people that was left behind, or if I am dreaming. Twitter is still lively: …

All About the Rapture

So this #Rapture hastag is trending here on twitter and facebook.  I want to to ask the question to all of you out there who are reading my blogs (all 2 of you):  What is are your plans for the end of the world this coming saturday, May 11, 2011?  Praying? Repentance? Bible-studying? Partying? Looting? Pranking? Have you drank the …

The New Colossus

The famous poem engraved in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; …

New blog

Hi Everyone! I’m Diego Lucero, and this is my new blogpage. Feel free to contribute your thoughts and ideas liberally. No successful republic can function without the clash of ideas and ideals to find the solutions on the higher planes than our originals. I’m pretty excited to get started with this.. I’ve never had a formal blog before. I think …