Bad Karma and America Bashing
it would have been bad karma to bash the american media about patriotism yesterday so i held off until today. on my shift wednesday night i was glancing through a Time and Newsweek and marveled at the...
View ArticleUnamerican
i suppose i’m un-American. i don’t want war with Iraq. I see no motivation for it apart from a familial grudge held by the man currently recognized as our the American president. i think the days of...
View ArticleTerrorist Attack Trading Cards
I was at Jamie’s Flea Market Saturday and I found something that hit the market when I was 6 years old. Something that shows me what 17 years of bickering, global reorganization and bloodshed has...
View ArticleCaveat Emptor
There are endless things we can and have learned from nature that have daily, practical application in our lives. Velcro was invented by a guy who took a close look at the burrs that stuck to his dog’s...
View ArticleLet Him Die
I’m up a bit earlier than usual because I’m training Abraham to wake himself up when he needs to pee during the night. So, of course, I decide to cogitate upon the recent CNN/Tea Party debate, and in...
View ArticleStop, Collaborate and Listen: EfficientGovNetwork Regional Collaboration...
On Thursday 13 October 2011, I used a vacation day to attend the EfficientGovNetwork Regional Collaboration Conference on behalf of the Cleveland Coalition/Transparency Action Plan Summit. I met up...
View ArticleQuotes from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes...
View ArticleRay Rice is just a symptom
I’m not normally one to beat upon a string of ideological adjectives when making a point, but lately it seems necessary. Racist patriarchal capitalist society trains us to think that the limit of...
View ArticleEmpathy is Not Always a Virtue
I’ve written a few times about the qualities of empathy and our society’s general need for more of it in the last year or so. However, empathy is not always a virtue. When you empathize with someone so...
View ArticleBad Karma and America Bashing
it would have been bad karma to bash the american media about patriotism yesterday so i held off until today. on my shift wednesday night i was glancing through a Time and Newsweek and marveled at the...
View ArticleUnamerican
i suppose i’m un-American. i don’t want war with Iraq. I see no motivation for it apart from a familial grudge held by the man currently recognized as our the American president. i think the days of...
View ArticleTerrorist Attack Trading Cards
I was at Jamie’s Flea Market Saturday and I found something that hit the market when I was 6 years old. Something that shows me what 17 years of bickering, global reorganization and bloodshed has...
View Article7 Years of Political Silence
I stopped writing about & voicing my political opinions back in 2008 or 2009 after J. Kevin Kelley & Kevin Payne got busted by the FBI for their corruption. At the time I tweeted something...
View ArticleMy General Political Philosophy
Ethics In general I support candidates, legislation, and civil behaviors that most closely meet my ethical and moral standards. The discernment process becomes progressively more refined as necessary,...
View ArticleSincerity
In the apotheosis of postmodernity that we are currently subjected to sincerity is hard to find. The alt-fact (propaganda) & alt-right (white supremacist) are unscrupulously disingenuous at...
View ArticleState Capture
I keep reading articles & news posts about how the Trump Administration is doing a bad job of communicating its policies & governance. This presupposes two things: That the Trump Administration...
View ArticleExcuses
My grandpa used to say to me: “You have more excuses than Wrigley has chewing gum”. He grew up during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, supported 4 kids and a wife running a postal route,...
View ArticleThe Juvenility of Men Behaving Badly
My kid is at the stage in life where fart jokes and mooning someone are just about the most hilarious things he can think of. I’ve frequently found myself surprised by a scrawny 10 year old backside...
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