John David Powell
Digital Journalist based in Houston, TX, United States.
Joined on Apr 16, 2009
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Some of the regulars down at Sparky’s Diner took me to task this week for not adding my wooden two-cents to what is easily the sleaziest story to come out of academia this century.
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Magicians, that other group of professionals who make their living by fooling the public with sleight of hand and smoke and mirrors, have as their unofficial motto: mundus vult decipi, decipi decipiatur (the world wants to be deceived, so deceive it).
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It is that time, the day we knew was coming, the date we did not need to mark on our calendars. What happened on that terrible Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, was a tragedy that profoundly affected us all.
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Individuals wiser than I tell us the balance of nature allows for both good and bad, although not always in equal measure. Most of the time, we must search hard for the good in a situation so our personal scales will balance.
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In a few days, exactly one week as I write this, our family will look once more into the eyes of evil and hope that our long journey for justice will be ended.
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The move of the Casey Anthony murder trial from the legal confines of a Florida court to the unrestrictive court of public opinion is an opportunity to look at how many media colleagues cashed in on the tragic death of a 2-year-old girl.
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A few weeks ago, at the start of Great Lent, I told my wife I really should sit down and chart the negative news about Christians and Christianity that always seem to increase during the Lenten and Christmas seasons.
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Cuba is an example of an international subject with a Texas tie-in, and particularly the Houston/Galveston area, which includes ShadeyHill Ranch, where we have a sizeable Cuban population. In fact, the guy who makes my hand-rolled cigars is Cuban.
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Capt. James T. Kirk showed a generation how to go boldly where no man had not gone before. Splitting the infinitive ("to boldly go") may not have been the best example to set for those of us who obsess compulsively over grammar.
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The phone call interrupted the quiet routine into which I have settled over the past 16 months of unemployment. Each evening rolls into the next with little to distinguish one from the other except for the prime-time television lineup.
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When my wife was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy in 2005, the word “epilepsy” was all she heard. “My ears began to buzz and I felt as if I was going to black out,” she says. “It was as if someone had just told me that I was possessed."
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Writing a personal opinion column sometimes requires revisiting unpleasant experiences and looking at them in the context of current events.
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The regulars down at Sparky’s Diner were at a loss for words, and to be frank, so was I. This past week marked the one-year anniversary of being let go from my place of employment for the past ten years.
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Two political blunders this month, one by an overly seasoned professional and the other by an arrogant rookie, show the low levels occupied by today’s political rhetoric.
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Two recent incidents of inappropriately embellishing a personal history raise troubling concerns on many levels, particularly for those of us trying to land work in a faltering economy.
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May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, and a prime opportunity to take a hard look at the stark truth behind the dirty, little secret of our nation’s failed immigration policies.
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A series of events continuing to unfold in a rural Texas county underscore the fact that the national healthcare reform debate has little to do with health care and even less to do with reform.
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All of the politics, posturing, and punditry in Washington surrounding sweeping healthcare reform fails to consider one sad, yet important, fact: you can’t legislate common sense and customer service.
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The Obama Administration plan to put new generic drugs on the street faster is another example of how Washington healthcare reformers just don’t get it.
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White House honchos and others use the term “communication failure” to explain the inability of Congress to pass healthcare legislation and other key parts of President Obama’s agenda.
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