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Toyota and Truth

by Bob Setzer, Jr.

Why has the Toyota recall garnered so much frenzied press coverage? Some pundits say it is because the baby boomers who pushed Toyotas into car sales stardom, are angry their heartfelt trust was betrayed.

I can’t speak for the press, but as for this baby boomer, I’d agree with that assessment.

Since I started driving at 16, there’s always been a Toyota in our family. The first was a ‘66 four-door with a straight drive on the column. My dad dubbed that little car the “Blue Bullet.” The name stuck out of humor, rather than accuracy. A “bullet” it was not. More like a golf cart on steroids. Read More

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‘Tis So Tweet to Trust…

by Bob Setzer, Jr.

A “Twitter Bible,” anyone?

For the uninitiated, “Twitter” is a web-based service that allows users to send messages of up to 140 characters to whoever is “following” the sender via a computer or cell phone. A lot of folks love Twitter, and there have been times, such as the recent disaster in Haiti, when this technology proved invaluable. But as a rule, there’s no one I find sufficiently interesting–myself included!–that I wish to know whatever free-floating association passes through their mind every hour or two.

But what if one could receive “tweets” (messages via Twitter) throughout the day . . . from God?! That’s the idea behind the Twitter Bible. Read More

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What’s to Love About Macon?

by Bob Setzer, Jr.

Let me tell you a dirty little secret about Macon, Georgia.

No, let’s start over. Let me tell you some of the reasons I love Macon, Georgia. I love Macon because its people are warm and friendly, its southern cooking second-to-none, and its weather–the current winter a notable exception–is temperate year round. I love Macon because Sherman spared our fair city on his infamous “March to the Sea,” for reasons the historians continue to debate. At any rate, because Macon was spared, it is home to some of the most beautiful antebellum homes in Georgia. I love Macon because of its rich heritage of music, from Gospel to soul to southern rock. I love Macon because of the great stories locals tell about ghosts in the Hay House, Clark Gable learning to speak “southern” in Macon during the filming of “Gone with the Wind,” and such strange and tortured souls as Anjette Lyles who liked to add a dash of arsenic poison to buttermilk. Read More

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