http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/These are the random musings of an American who loves his country but is terrified of what it is slowly becoming. It's not always going to be political (i.e. "how America stinks" or whatnot) but about things in general from a viewpoint not often at all in the press. It's of someone who is going to leave his country for another as soon as he can afford it, for good, and he's not exactly thrilled to tickles about it.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/274850I know. It's a radical idea, but here it is anyway. Lots of people I speak with, normally people who make way more money than I, are of the position that everyone should have to pay a lot of taxes. They figure that if not everyone pays a lot of taxes, then lots of poor people can't get free stuff...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/274148I'm not going to name names, but I (and anyone else who surfs the net from my local telephone compnay ISP) have been sitebanned from a rather prominent environmentalist organisation's website. Why? Because I asked "Why?" and because I wouldn't stop asking other questions, such as "What about...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/273529Congressional Democrats are, in the words of one of New York's congressfolk Chuck Schumer, "ready for war" over the replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Conner on the United States Supreme Court. Really? This so soon after swearing an oath of moderation and civil discourse on, of all things,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/272417I know poverty and the ills that stem from it are in much need for discussion and action in society, but when groups of millionaire artists and billionaire entertainment industrialists get together at $4 million receptions, driving $280,000 Hummer limousines and so on it rather seems to me to be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/269873It seems that the U.S. Supreme Court has set modern political labelling on its ear. How'd they do it? Easy. The five liberals/progressives on the Court (Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter and Kennedy) sided with the government-corporate money lobbyists to make it so that local governments -- and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/268773A friend of mine in California had a tough Father's Day. Her dad is doing very badly in hospital -- has been for a while, and it's tearing her up. A lot of her immediate family are being all "stiff upper lip" about it, and it's dring her a little batty. A lot of people don't know how to handle...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/267721After my nice home-cooked meal I sat down to wander around the internet for news. That took about twenty minutes. Then I started checking out what people thought about the news. That took until just a few minutes ago. During that time it hit me. It seems as if it is the good-intending and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/267686I'm bored out of my mind. I figure 7 out of every 10 writers who read this will be nodding their heads and smiling about now at the realisation that they aren't the only ones for whom boredom can be a muse. It's rather like a strange zen state, boredom. It's as if your body and mind are looking...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/zenresistance/266989If memory serves me right, I began watching Doctor Who when I was around the age of seven. It may have been a little earlier, but I really don't have a good enough memory for that far back to be able to nail it down with certainty. Circa 1977 will have to do. I was with my parents and my sister...