Another new leaf for this blog
Feb 24The very few people who out there who still read this blog know that I frequently make a resolution to change the direction of what I’m blogging about (see 1, 2, & 3)… well I guess I’m going to do it again. My wife started writing a blog around a few months back called , which has made me long for the time when I blogged regularly. But I also am beginning to embark on some...
Very big changes are coming for this blog
Jul 26I won’t say anything else for now, but I can tell regular readers that JMBzine.com is going to be taking on some new levels of awesomeness as we near the 20th anniversary of this website (ok, it has had other names, but the roots of this website go back to 1995).
Cycling updates
Jun 27Life continues to evolve and stay interesting. For the coming days, I’ll mostly be posting some updates about my cycling via Strava.com (an app that tracks my cycling with the gps on my phone).
Religion… (Part 3): A little bit about what I do believe (and don’t believe) about God
Apr 03Updated April 3, 2012: Fixed some grammar typos. This is part of multi-part series of blog posts on the nature of faith and religion. (you can read the previous installments by following these links: Part 1 (June 2010) and Part 2 (October 2010)). I have long intended to continue my previous discussion on what it is that I believe about God and about faith itself, but life got in the way of...
Opinion: Who is really on trial, Bradley Manning or America itself?
Feb 22This is cross-posted from the website of The Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild By James M. Branum Chair of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild February 22, 2012 Growing up in small-town Oklahoma, one of my greatest influences was the Boy Scouts. I learned some of my first lessons in civics through the Boy Scout Handbook. The Handbook told me that...
A confession… I am a philatelist
Feb 21Few of my regular readers know this, but one of my hobbies/obsessions is philately (aka stamp collecting). I’ve collected off and on since childhood (mostly thanks to my paternal grandpa, who got me hooked by giving me duplicate stamps from his collection). My collecting interests are pretty varied, but I do focus on used stamps. I collect used partly because they are free/cheap to obtain,...
Revived once again
Feb 13I’ve decided to revive this blog yet again. More details coming soon, but I will likely be focusing on longer-length op-ed style pieces.
A retrospective — Looking at my 9-11 posts at JMBzine.com from 10 years ago (Part 1)
Sep 12The 10th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks happened yesterday. It was a day with a lot of sad thoughts and memories. I decided to go back and look at what I said on my blog from that era. It was rather interesting to say the least. I decided to link to some of the more interesting posts from that day and the days that followed… September 11, 2001, 10:10 a.m. — Initial thoughts, posted...