On Survival:
For the longest time growing up I strongly suspected that I wasn’t going to survive past my 30th birthday. In fact sometimes I still think to myself that I’m running on borrowed time. Lord knows I’ve tried enough times in my little passive-aggressive way. (Wrecked 6 motorcycles, totally destroying 4 of them, walked away from [...]
Regulate me!
I had a great discussion with a colleague today. He can somehow look me in the face and claim that there is too much regulation in banking, healthcare, etc. I asked him if he’d bothered picking up a newspaper. Everything I’ve read shows that this whole fiasco happened because the Republican strategy of letting the [...]
Tolerance
Tolerance is a null term. Tolerance –noun A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one’s own; freedom from bigotry. Tolerate as in permit. Put up with. Ignore the flaws in. Tolerance. To tolerate something implies that it’s something you wouldn’t normally…well…tolerate. We can’t stop at [...]
Phil Gramm – Economic Terrorist
If the McCain people want to rummage through presidential candidates’ associations, real or imagined, to turn up figures who threaten to pull down this proud republic, they should begin in-house. Chief among those to whom responsibility attaches for the financial crisis that is plunging the nation into recession is former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain’s [...]
Death of a loved one…
No worries, this is something that happened about 10 years ago. On September 17th, 1998 my mother passed away. In the realization that I didn’t notice the 10 year anniversarry come and go my wife reminded of the greatest story ever. In 1998 I was working in the IT department of a pretty big accounting [...]
The hidden Horrors of Military Service
In Response to: How captivity shaped McCain To Mr. Dobbs and to whom it may concern: I really am sick to death of hearing about Mr. McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam. The notion that 5 ½ years in the Hanoi Hilton made him a potential Commander in Chief is utter nonsense. My own father was a [...]
39 is such a non-age….
I’m going to turn 39 in a few days. 39 is the most non-age that I have yet experienced! Think about it…you’re no longer in your mid-thirties, in fact you’re at the very end of your thirty-something. You haven’t yet reached the “BIG 40” – that blessed and cursed point at which you can legitimately [...]
A warm welcome…
To NettKitten – also known as Mrs. Shredderfeeder. Who has agreed to throw some of her unique insights at the site. Since she’s the only real writer in the family I suspect she’ll bring a few things to the blog that I could never bring. A few of those being: Sophistication Dignity Wit Imagination So [...]
*ALL* Fundimentalism is BAD.
Yes, *ALL* fundimentalism. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Scientologists, etc. They’re all dangerous. Someone asked me once why I didn’t follow any religion, preferring a more ‘silent spirituality’ instead. Bottom line is – more people have died in the name of someone’s god over the course of history than for any other reason. I give you [...]
VeeP Debate..
Ok – went through the VP debate twice tonight – and I think that I’m ready to call it for Biden. Full disclosure – my mind is made up who I’m going to vote for. Being a Virginia resident I even might make a difference this year. (Being a virginia resident, it will be the [...]
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