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I think I shall never see A politician as erudite as a tree. A tree says nothing. A politician says everything. The debatable debates are behind us as the campaign gets into high gear. Who won? No one. Whey don’t they just come right out and say it, “My opponent is a worthy man and I don’t want to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tomorrow I leave the state of Texas and head back to the Pacific NW. It has been most pleasant here in Austin. I am rusty at keeping up my blogs and sure I've suffered rating wise, but hey, time off is time off so it was great not to have to worry about blogs. Of course I missed my blog family, but... Sign in to see full entry.

Is it really like a foreign country y’all? I should blend right in with my whiter shade of pale redhead complexion. I was in Texas once before, but I was in the Air Force and that isn’t quite the same. It will be great to see my brother and his family and their pet scorpions, roaches, tarantulas,... Sign in to see full entry.

Politics is supposed to be about what the people want. Ideally, a politician would poll his electorate and vote according to their will even if it were something (watch for impending political correctness) it or it’s party were against. That would be representative government in it’s purest form.... Sign in to see full entry.

Scientists know lots of things. Not only that, they discover lots of things. Strangely, there are some common things they know very little about. Consider gravity. We all feel gravity, it keeps our feet planted firmly on the ground. It keeps the air we breath wrapped snugly about the planet. These... Sign in to see full entry.

There they were, Bush and Kerry as toe-to-toe as the complicated rules would let them get. The opinion the Kerry won has even been reported by FOX news. What this means is anybody’s guess. Ok, that’s a misleading sentence but I’m not going to fix it since it allows me to say, by that I don’t mean... Sign in to see full entry.

Some contend the collective intellect of the citizens of the good old U.S.A. is declining. I don’t know about the rank and file, but the criminal element certainly seems to be “dumbing down”. An article in the Spokane Washington Spokesman Review (page B3) recounts this tale that belongs in the... Sign in to see full entry.

History comes alive. Letters that I wrote to my family nearly 40 years ago were in a bundle my mother gave me tonight. These letters cover the years I spent in the Air Force and prove to me how fleeting a thing memory really is. Things and people I talked about seem like something a stranger is... Sign in to see full entry.

In the urgency to post, post, post, we at Blogit let readers further into our minds than probably even our closest friends or family. The anonymity of this medium allows us a certain freedom that I’m sure many of us would curtail at all but the wildest parties. This thought occurred to me as I... Sign in to see full entry.

My mother will be 78 September 27 th. Two weeks ago she announced that she wasn’t going to drive anymore. She had just had a close call. Not just any close call, she had her foot on the gas and thought she was applying the brake. The first time this happened, she bounced over a sidewalk and crunched... Sign in to see full entry.