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Sunday, September 16, 2012

RANTING: Road Rage

(reprised and a little re-edited, from my earliest Blogit days) Is it really necessary to blind every on-coming vehicle? Is it a macho thing? Should we be assuming, the brighter the lights, the more ineffectual the wee-wee? Okay, I can do that. And for you who think that everyone has those little flippy rear-view mirrors, so you can come up behind them with your brights on, even if you were right, which you aren't, side-view mirrors have no such feature, and you are blinding people from both... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Anything to win...

Is it any wonder that we can't believe anything anyone says about anything? Anything to bring down an enemy... anything to win an election... anything to get someone's money, vote, agreement... It's human nature, this greed that informs human society: greed for power, for control, for wealth, for adulation, for winning... We are so hungry, so many of us, for these things! In little personal ways, in lives that are small, relatively close worlds, as much as on the national and international... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Where have all the heroes gone...long time passing...?

Since the passing of Neil Armstrong, people have been mourning not only his death, but the loss of an American hero. I’ve heard people asking, “Who are our heroes today?” It’s gotten me thinking, that question. What makes a hero? What makes one like Neil Armstrong? Where are we looking for new heroes? My heroes are the people who put their personal stuff aside for the sake of a greater need, or a greater purpose than their own. Heroes are people who set aside even their interest in their own... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Why I will not vote for Romney/Ryan

It is hard to comprehend why anyone lies in their job interview, especially telling lies that are easy to check out, and so be exposed. Romney and Ryan have been caught out in so many blatant lies, large manipulative ones, and small pointless ones, that it has become an issue in itself, exposed and ridiculed for the ludicrous absurdity of it! Do they seriously expect that a strategy of lies will win them the White House? Who are they talking to? Who do they expect to be taken in by all these... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Headline: We're Not Going to Let Our Campaign Be Dictated by Fact-Checkers

Damn right! We don't want to know the truth, we don't want to know who lies to us, who plays fast and loose with the truth! Right? Heavens forbid, we should check facts ourselves, or face the fact that in a campaign season, everyone lies, and we believe who we want to believe. So, disdain the journalist who does his/her job, sneer at the 'fact-checker' who questions your campaign's 'narrative,' its convenient and expedient versions of Truth. It's not as if it's relevant, or anything.... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Change in the weather, changes in the world...

We need some new stuff. It is human nature to cling to things--tools, systems, ideas that have proven in the past to successfully solve problems that needed solving. If a thing works, huzzah! Keep it handy, keep it forever--Now we have it, we never have to rethink or retool again! We love what solves our problems. We sing about it, we obsess about it, we enshrine it and treat it as though it's a gift from Providence! We feel strong and clever, when something we've come up with solves another of... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 27, 2012

headlines...

Controversy Over Rape, Abortion Hurts GOP. Huh... nothing compared to how it hurts women. I suppose it's all in your priorities. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Art of Saying No

It came up here, recently--how to say "no" when someone says, "Be my Friend." For that to be easy, only takes considering the context of the request, and whether 'friend' means anything, really, in that context. Facebook has trivialized the very concept of 'friend.' Yet, still, some of us go through paroxysms of guilty self-justification before we decide to decline, refuse, reject. Or we don't say 'no' and allow another near-stranger into the circle of folk who will be keeping tabs on us. And... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Privacy is passe'

Apparently, being a ceo of a huge thing makes your opinion meaningful, even if you haven't quite reached 30, yet, and made your fortune with more luck than wisdom. Mr. Zuckerberg recently put out that declaration which sounds to me like a sneer at people who still regard privacy as something we should be able to expect in our lives. Minimizing a problem surely is easier than solving it. Someone might answer, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, why should you be afraid of constant scrutiny?" But... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Further thoughts on women's choices and declining birth-rates

A great focus of our society, since the advent of reliable birth-control in the 1960s, has been a woman's right to choose. Biology and men previously defined women's choices. The Sexual Revolution, and Feminism assaulted the institutionalized gender-roles, and raised questions that finally had powers beyond persuasion, to demand satsifactory answers. Some of those issues are still in hot debate, such as the right to choose abortion to end unwanted pregnancy. Also in debate are the adjoining... Sign in to see full entry.

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