I'm a mid-life dreamer. I'm a kid in a candy store of realities, ideas, and hopes. I write like a blue collar. I speak like a non-scholar. Occasionally, I live like Richard Halliburton... on bed rest.
“It looks old!” Dee said staring at the length of fungus mottled, half rotted rope. “It is old. It will hold your scrawny frame, Dee.” Joe, her father, retorted. I was a little younger than Dee and could separate my eyes from her just long enough to notice the long claw marks in the soil […]
Youtube, the new rule maker for public discourse, has begun over the last few weeks to place qualifiers at the bottom of videos it deems to be “misleading”. One of those qualifiers is a statement that reads “The AP has called the Presidential race for Joe Biden. See more on Google.” This is posed as […]
For several months now we have been in various stages of lockdown (that’s Latin for: Arbitrary mass house arrest) throughout this great nation. We have seen businesses meekly shutter their doors and windows. We have seen people refuse to emerge from their homes without masks, gloves, and “social distancing.” The U.S. has been on a […]
The strongest tool for survival is mindset. When things look really bad, the survivor is focused on the things that he can change and the elements that will help him change them. Once doubt and second-guessing penetrate the core of his being, a victim of circumstance is simply waiting for help or death. By the […]
Years ago I dated a lady that was so far left that I suspected she could defy gravity. She was not just a leftist, she was an antagonistic superficial spiritualist who spouted Howard Zinn like a firehose sprinkler. She got angry at me one afternoon because we disagreed about the merits of business ownership and […]
Is a blatant misuse of the Commerce Clause worth shutting down? Should a law passed with a misuse of budgetary votes be upheld by weak…I mean… Justices of the Supreme Court? Shouldn’t the individual mandate evacuation be the nail in the coffin? Where did the idea that millions of people would go without healthcare if […]
As a kid I had a passing interest in Batman. He was not a “super hero”. Batman was simply a trained, dedicated man that believed enough to overcome corruption and graft in his city. There were no eyes that shot lasers. He had no supernatural powers of flight. His strength came from sweat and determination. […]
From the beginning, the people of this nation understood that there was a tenuous balance between A functional government and a lasting individual liberty. Too little government would mean a weak defense of the rights of every American. Too much government would snuff the light of freedom, entirely. How could such a remarkable balance, such […]
Above the smoldering ruin of the nation, the last of the republicans could be heard shouting “Quick, somebody do something polite and ineffective!”
“A campaign is a series of adjustments made to what you thought was your plan. A platform is an engineered structure that had better be adjusted long before your campaign.” So spoke my State and Local Politics professor ages ago. I read it again last year and scratched my head. Isn’t your platform your campaign […]
Tonight I went out to be among members of my own species (insert humor here). I thought a walk through the mall might be refreshing. Since I am not usually subject to fits of this degree of insanity I did not chastise myself too badly for the notion. Once in a while it is good […]
“Let’s not make waves.” “This will pass.” “We don’t want to look like radicals!” Isn’t it interesting how “reasonable” Conservatives never want to speak out against the left? Is it not a study in the flimsy armor of pseudo-conservatism that, regardless the actions of radical leftists, these perpetually nervous people are always worried about the […]
Tonight I walked with my neighbor (We’ll call her Hope) as I have many nights before. I took up the habit because she has had multiple operations on her feet and cannot run from danger with any great speed. Most nights I point out satellites crossing the sky or identify foxes and coyotes traversing the […]
On a particularly tense October day a small group of armed, white Americans gathered together in common cause. They were going to kill. They were resolved to subjugate foreigners. They would take these culturally different people into custody or kill them outright. So, armed and ready, they walked toward their intended targets, guns in hand. […]
A functional force continuum is not designed to address previous criminal actions. It is written to address immediate threats to officers operating in a society that values justice as well as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What happened to Floyd George (criminal history and all) was an inexcusable leap beyond the letter and […]