Politics: Not Everybody Does It, but Everybody Should

Religion, fear, money and critical thinking

I followed a rabbit hole today into a series of videos from a local televangelist. In his, well produced, videos he espoused the hierarchy of the man over the woman as head of the household reflecting Christ over the followers as head of the church. “It isn’t about discrimination”, he said. “It’s about following the [...]

The Stock Market – Like Roulette without the Wheel

So I have a couple of bucks in the stock market. I could have taken it out when everything went in the crapper but I listened to the experts. “You have to be in it for the long haul”. “It’s not like the depression. It will come back”. Obama is in…Bush is out. Things have [...]

I damn near cried

I was listening to Obama speaking in Arizona about the mortgage crisis and his plans and people spontaneously began cheering. What a sound! American people cheering the president. It was overwhelming. I hadn’t heard this sound in such a long time it almost didn’t compute that they were cheering IN FAVOR of what he was [...]

So Long and Thanks For All The Fish

So Barack Obama is the new President Elect and, frankly, we could not be happier. I think that’s fairly unanimous considering the polls. But ….. Florida, Florida, Florida.

We watched in amazement as Florida went blue, even if it was by a small margin, and we rejoiced. We live in a blue state again!! How great!. [...]

I Hope To Still Be Able To Hope

It is still too early in the day to tell anything. I am forcing myself to avoid CNN. I watched Anderson Cooper till near midnight last night and made myself go to bed. He is an odd fellow that Anderson. He may be an alien from the planet Really, Really Tidy. His hair is perfect [...]

Florida: Living in a Red Neck Paradise

We own two houses in the town we live in. We own businesses and pay taxes. My lawn is mowed. There is no crap on my lawn nor is there anything up on blocks sitting in plain view. I cannot say this about my neighbors. The town in which we live, Dunedin Florida, was just [...]

I Will Wear My Powdered Wig When I Vote

It is the year 2008. At least that’s what my calendar says. So can anyone tell me why, with the age of technology, computors, blogging, You Tube, viral marketing, faxing, video phones and a host of other inventions I am too stupid to even contemplate, why God, why is there still an electoral college?

As Culver [...]

We’re not Barack Yet

I need to talk about politics. It’s genetic. My father made it so. He never shut up about politics unless he was talking about sports or science. He was very left. Left of Al Franken. This one topic is the thing that kept my father and I from murdering each other. It was the one [...]

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