Jim Scott

In Oklahoma last night we were unable to kill someone – effectively.  Apparently a man named Clayton Lockett was slated to die from a lethal injection.  This man was convicted of the murder of Stephanie Nieman, 19. Lockett, with two other men, was involved in a botched raid on a house belonging to Bobby Bornt, when Miss Neiman and another 19-year-old woman walked in.  Reports from the time said that Mr Bornt owed Lockett money and...

Guns – who needs them?  No one!  If you dismiss the recreational value of firing guns, as in target shooting, re-enactments, and other such activities, then there is really no need for them to exist.  You no longer need to hunt for your food, so why do it?  All the money spent on fancy guns, scopes, special clothing and boots, various accessories, fuel costs, and what-not probably far exceeds what you would spend for meat at the local...

I have been told that I am not a man of great patience.  Now my friend told me this with of every intention of being helpful in some way.  Seems odd that we think the best way to help a person is to insult them. So tonight I am doing a little experiment in patience. You see I know this guy who knows a guy who needs a favor.  The guy who needs this favor is the suit and tie type guy who works U.S. Customs.  Interestingly enough in one...

Do you know how I know that Western Civilization is heading right into the toilet?  I’ll tell you – shopping carts.  Yep, you heard me.  I was just putting my groceries in my car and as I did I watched a grown-ass man take a few steps toward the shopping car corral and then shove in that direction.  The cart made to just outside the corral and then sat there as he placed his Swiss-Cake-Eating, oversized ass in his car.  As I took my...