JUST FOR FUN (published 6-29-2019)

On this “it’s hot; it’s dang hot” late Saturday afternoon, you have found a just-for-fun article! Ain’t it great!

Today, I did the usual stuff: hauled off trash, got a haircut (a week early), got a good truck washing, shopped at Tractor Supply, got gas, etc. It was the usual mundane whatever.

In that mundane context, there were three points of humor. First, Mrs. Appalachian Irishman and I had the dubious “joy” of providing PRN doggy daycare for her sister's daughter. She has a “dogcat” named Pepper. Pepper, a female, is a small dog that acts more like a cat. That “dogcat” isn’t sleeping here overnight again! The only time she did was on March 22-23 this year. It was far too traumatic for Molly, our fine, good, and regular dog, and us!

Second, a good friend in Arkansas finally figured out that he should reply to my response to his last email. My response was barely over a year ago. He figured out the details. I won’t wait a year until I reply to him. It’s just funny! A year, as in a life, is just a blink of an eye anyway. No worries, my good friend!

Third, I sent an online message to a local radio show host, whom I do respect as a fellow Christian, regarding the name of his Sunday TV show. The name is “Anything is Possible.” For fun, I quibbled with him that the show should be named “Anything that is Possible is Possible,” since the logically impossible is not possible!

Oh, just do some research into the classic moral argument for the existence of the God of the Bible or into the atheist’s argument from the so-called problem of evil. The atheist's argument can be turned around on him and into an argument for the existence of the God of the Bible.

I would go into more theological and logical detail, but it’s about 5 PM. I’m hungry, and my sister-in-law just now arrived to pick up “dogcat!”