For convenience I have copied my numerous facebook posts on the Committee of Diversity and inclusion’s decision to petition changing the Catholic Central High School mascot into one place. I will add for reference, I was raised a Roman Catholic is a fairly liberal diocese, rejected that faith as a teenager and looked into the… Read More Diversity is inclusive
Buses are almost an afterthought if not outright inconvenience to our Car obsessed community, and the down town core is the prime example of misguided planning.… Read More The Making of a Skid Row
The mean man’s Grandfather had yelled at Jimmy’s Grandfather, The mean man’s Father had yelled at Jimmy’s Father, and now this mean man was yelling at Jimmy.… Read More Rocket Man and the Barking Dog-A modern Parable
I have battled sages And debated warriors I am the Mammoth Man I have stood at the world’s peak And thrived in its darkest depths I am the Mammoth Man I have left footprints in the sand Washed away by a summer storm I am the Mammoth Man I have done it all And accomplished….Nothing.… Read More I am the Mammoth Man
(author’s note: this is from the heart, no re-write, no forced poetry, it is my thoughts and heart from mind to paper. Don’t expect it to rhyme or have a set rhythm except the one in my heart today.) With painful effort you pushed me out Then clutched me to your breast. That beating heart… Read More Ode to My Mother
Once upon a time two tribes moved from the plains to the forest. In the forest were two giant trees. Trees so large an entire tribe could live in its follage. Since the tribes could not agree on how to govern together, they each took a tree for their own. Both tribes moved into their… Read More The Forest of ideals
While it has been several days since the incident, it still haunts me. A car bomb suicide bomber targeting refugees fleeing the war in Syria. And not just the refugees, but specifically targeting the children. Terrorism is dispicable, but most terrorists have a goal, a message, some sort of agenda that while he or she… Read More Senseless violence.
Stop defending your oppression! I can not stand the phrase “if you’ve got nothing to hide” it’s the braying of sheep in the field beside a slaughter house. It is the song of a canary singing, in a cage of hardened steel. It’s the clacking claw of a lobster, in a restaurant window. “If you… Read More Bleeding freedom away
I will not be visiting the U.S. Any time soon, nor will a lot of other people. This is not a boycott, it is just out and out fear. Between Trump’s Muslim ban, cleverly disguised as a safety measure, where anyone holding citizenship in one of seven countries is banned from the U.S., the rumors… Read More American chill: Tourism
We are experiencing a paradigm shift in geopolitics. A shift as monumental as the political borders of the first world war, where empires collapsed and the lines on the maps were redrawn to suit a new world order. On January 20th 2017 we will see a complete shift in the national interests of a super… Read More NATO must be disbanded
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