The Enemy Before Us
We see them every day. We interact with them daily, hourly, sometimes minute by minute and yet we have no idea how subversive of a foe they are. We have no idea how their subversiveness allows them to...
View ArticleOhh They Create Jobs Alright
Just not for youWith all the talk from Mittens regarding Obama's reckless endangerment of the economy by creating “the most anti-investment, anti-business, anti-jobs series of policies in modern...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Getting Cozy With Money
This afternoon Kos posted one up called How we could stop the Adelsons and their millionsIt is an interesting take and definitely a rosy idea. Try to get our wealthy progressives and democrats to pony...
View ArticleFun At The Movies - Pulp Fiction
An attempt at a series where we examine various films and their cultural and political impact.Last time we viewed and analyzed the film Ides of March, this time around I'd like to take us farther back...
View ArticleFun At the Movies - Norma Rae
An on going series I'd like to keep up on where we look at various movies and their social and political impact.Last go around we hit a titular pivot in cultural history with Pulp Fiction. This time...
View ArticleThey Play The Fiddle While A City Burns
Last night on the Ed Show I was introduced to a story about a city in our nation that is in crisis. The city is Detroit and apparently for the last year Detroit has become literally a warzone. There...
View ArticleInto the mind of a conservative today
So this momentous day has come and having now been partially passed, I felt compelled to share something. Especially so having had a conversation with my faux news watching mother. After having this...
View ArticleShe got another hour at least
I'm writing this diary nearing the end of what has been a tiring week. To be fair to the parties involved I am not even directly involved in the events to cause the weariness, I am but a side causality...
View ArticleIt's Such a Dirty Word
So there I found myself, maybe thirty minutes ago....Okay maybe not exactly thirty minutes ago.I had to write and then edit this diary immediately as I got home, and that included requisite break time,...
View ArticleGet Ready For A Wild Ride
Its no secret anymore to most folks, we're in the midst of record breaking temperatures and drought conditions. The county I live in right now in Indiana just had a state of emergency declared, along...
View ArticleSo I Finally Mustered the Willpower
...to sit through church.I did so at my wife's request and honestly, I'll be frank here, it really didn't take that much will power. My father in law had request that everyone be there for Sunday lunch...
View ArticleFun At The Movies : American History X
As it seems I've been lax on this diary series and let it go just a wee bit to far. So many movies with so many points of view its difficult to point them all out. Just so many great movies with so...
View ArticleLets Get Something Straight
I am slow sometimes, I often miss stories or overlook them. I blame those nagging things like, I don't know, work family and responsibilities that keep my attention away from what goes on in the world...
View ArticleOn The Road to See Death
For those that might follow me, or those that might have read my previous diary regarding my parents its pretty obvious which line my parents have fallen.I don't hold them to task for it, I think...
View ArticleHow One Humbles Themself
I recently shared a story with my parents, one I kept close to my chest. I kept this close to my chest mostly because up until recently I really never felt necessary to tell them. I hadn't even shared...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Lie
I'm a huge fan of the series called Lie To Me.The basic premise is a man who can read ones body language and then read their true actions or intentions based on said language. I honestly was hooked...
View ArticleThe Digital Cold War
I preface this diary stating that I myself am a systems administrator. What that means for your lay folk not intrenched into the details of the IT world is that I am the keeper of the rainbow bridge...
View ArticleWhy I Vote Democratic - It's a Girl!
Well not yet anyway, those that follow me know I'm having a baby soon. We thought perhaps yesterday but alas...false alarm. Darn you mother nature!...anyway I've seen a lot of diaries about why folks...
View ArticleIts Personal Now
I've had a moment of an epiphany recently. Such things come with great upheaval in ones life. They come when moments of reality come bearing down on you like a freight train. Now this freight train is...
View ArticleKill The Root Before it Takes
It was a typical day, well semi typical in that my wife had still yet to come home with our brand new daughter. Both are doing well in case anyone is curious, little one is sleeping and eating well and...
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