apathy is a stain on society! there’s never been a more important time to be opinionated!
After a long and extremely pleasant Christmas and New Year (my energy renewed) I thought I’d write another less-than-succint ramble about the state of the nation, of aspiring 2008 candidates (of which there are now many), and dreary standard mixed feelings. I just don’t think 2008 should start like that!
Having just read two (1,2) extremely [...]
I know this is hardly a fresh fodder topic for grevious dissemination and elevated sarcasm but it’s been three days since the chairman of the Federal Election Commission predicated a $1 billion presidential price tag and I’m still trying to wrap my head around the news. To be frank; it makes me sad, angry and [...]
Sometimes it’s fun to be the contrarian. Especially when pitching an opposing view from my previous rambles about the U.S. and its obligation and determination to fix what is wrong with the world. So, what if the United States, the dominant and perhaps, to some, the menacing military and economic ‘hyper power’, decided enough was [...]
Perhaps an over-zealous hunt for inspiration, mixed with a particularly spicy dinner cooked by the Wife brought it on but my search for deep and reflective content for this assignment inspired the following dream:
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JC Watts exudes a quite intoxicating calm. True, my meeting with the man was only thirty minutes long but if you tried, quite unfairly, to give him one label; one stark quality; ‘calm’ would be mine.
Oscar Wilde suggested, more than once I believe, that ‘nothing is so aggravating as calmness!’ I’d extend that quote one [...]