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Two Photos Tell the Story 30 Jul 2012 | 07:30 am
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post, “Walmart Greeter Buys 6-Pack of Beer & Is Condemned”, that touched (pinched) a few nerves. It is becoming, it seems, more and more acceptable to flog the poor fo...
Hate Mail Isn’t Always What it Seems: An Open Response to “Greta” 28 Jul 2012 | 05:47 am
Those who regularly read my blog or follow me on Facebook probably know that something’s been brewing in me for the past few days. Sometimes, what appears to be a string of unrelated sparks stems from...
Six Unpopular Truths 27 Jul 2012 | 03:50 am
1. No one escapes social conditioning. It doesn’t matter how smart, rebellious, thoughtful, analytical, spiritual, or self-aware we are. The wires of our beings were plugged into society on the day we...
Mop Needed in Aisle One…Or Somewhere 26 Jul 2012 | 06:58 pm
(A Sort Of, Kind Of Tongue-in-Cheek Post) Nearly all my life I’ve been told that I’m a glass half-full person. I don’t see it that way. The glass is as full or empty as it is, but if there’s a hole i...
Walmart Greeter Buys 6-Pack of Beer & Is Condemned 19 Jul 2012 | 08:30 pm
“They shouldn’t enjoy the same privileges that other people do, even in paltry amounts.” “They shouldn’t have TV’s, cable, computers, cell phones or any other unnecessary thing.” “There should be mo...
Rambling at 4 a.m. after 17 hours of writing… 13 Jul 2012 | 06:51 pm
My online friend Charlie O’Hay had this to say about writing the other day: “I view writing the way prisoners view tunnels. It is a way out, or more properly, a way through. It is the chipping away o...
On Birds & A Second Chance at Life 4 Jul 2012 | 04:00 am
I’m not a different person than I was when I set off on my road trip three years ago, but I am a much changed one. The changes didn’t happen all at once and each of them came in their own time, in the...
A Truly Bipartisan & Freedom-Based Solution to Health Care & Other Political Problems 2 Jul 2012 | 04:20 am
Back when the bank bailouts were being proposed, the majority of Americans, both Republican and Democrat, were against them. Politicians from both parties plowed ahead and approved the relief. When Pr...
The Outside is the New In. Five Observations. 30 Jun 2012 | 04:17 am
I’ve always been obsessed with the cultural sphere, which the internet and television taps into on a second-by-second basis. I often wonder: Why are so many D-list celebrities reincarnated on reality...
JC Penney Makes Me Buy A Dress 2 Jun 2012 | 01:12 am
A few days ago, along with millions of others, I read the news that JC Penney was refusing to capitulate to the discriminatory pseudo-religious group “One Million Moms”, which seems to have formed sim...
