Found this tattooed horse in downtown Louisville a few years ago. It was around Kentucky Derby time.   Continue reading Tattooed Horse

What could be more creative than a shadow box of eggs.  I found this on at the Des Moines History Museum a few years ago. Continue reading Eggs…

Cord-cutting headaches for pay TV have now progressed beyond just a dull, throbbing pain. Cable, satellite and telco TV companies suffered their worst-ever quarterly subscriber declines for the three months ended June 30, collectively shedding more than half a million accounts — an accelerating erosion that’s put new pressure on operators and media companies exposed in the pay-TV biz. Source: Cord-Cutting Gets Ugly: U.S. Pay-TV Sector Drops 566,000 Customers in Q2. Later in this article one of the TV execs say that the customer should be the focus of this trend and not the corporate plan or such. Maybe they would like my opinion but I kind … Continue reading Cord-Cutting Gets Ugly: U.S. Pay-TV Sector Drops 566,000 Customers in Q2

(CENTENNIAL, Colo.)—Colorado theater shooter James Holmes will be sentenced to life in prison without parole after a jury failed to agree Friday on whether he should get the death penalty for his murderous attack on a packed movie premiere. Source: Jury Sentences Aurora Movie Theater Shooter to Life in Prison | TIME. The Colorado theatre incident seems like a long ago memory now that so many others have happened. But it is nice to see that James Holmes finally was held accountable for his deeds. I know there are probably a lot of you who say he should have been killed … Continue reading Cruel and Unusual….

One of the things I complain about the most is having no help in choosing a career/direction for my life.  I went to a very small rural school and even though I was assigned the agriculture teacher as my counselor he was actually anything but.  I think every one of those he “guided” was told to be a farmer. He simply didn’t take that responsibility seriously. I don’t know if it was any different for the other students who had different teachers? Probably not… But looking back on my life there were several clues that, if I weren’t a hormones driven … Continue reading Ode to the Farm House..

Some customers, consumer advocates and the telephone-workers union accuse the phone companies of not repairing copper networks that they want to shut down. The new rules would prohibit companies from retiring a copper network through neglect. If it wants to abandon copper, it would need to tell customers. SOURCE: You still use a landline? FCC voting on new phone rules – Yahoo News. This was a new one on me. I didn’t know that the phone companies could retire copper lines through neglect.  I guess when that happens they just leave it up to you to try to figure a way to … Continue reading You still use a landline? FCC voting on new phone rules

First off I hope you are enjoying the new and expanded view from RJ’s Corner. Its kind of more a neighborhood now than just a corner but that’s the way it is.  Its fun to be able to put all my posts in one place. Let me know how you like the new format and anything that would make it better. I have been doing some serious maintenance on the site for the last week or so and that is why recent postings have dropped.  I hope to finish that up this weekend and will then start posting on a … Continue reading My Take On The World

Creativity is by no means a new thing.  When I came across this windmill in Colby Kansas I knew I was looking at 19th century version of is.   It sure does get windy in the northern plains States so they need a way to keep it from tearing off their fans.  What a neat way to do it… Continue reading Windy Creativity…

Road Trips, History, Photography, Blogging Some of my major passions revolves around road trips, American History, photography, and blogging. They have all come together to form the heart of the InSearchOfAmerica category of this blog. Do you want to visit places you have never been? Do you want some ideas on where to visit for your next vacation? Do you want to learn about our country by visiting our past? This blog will do those things for you. Over the past 25 years  I have taken many road trips with history in mind. I have actually traveled to all fifty States with my … Continue reading About “In Search Of America”

If you know me you know that I am one who embraces change and hate boredom. With both of those things itching at me I have spent the last week re-formatting my five blogs into one new one. It has been a tedious task but one I think is well worth the time. If you like it let me know please.. Continue reading New and Improved RJ’s Corner…

From FaceBook.   For some reason I never learned that “Toddy” later went on to become secretary of war . Continue reading The Lincoln Legacy..

If we want to see police killings drop, no matter the victim, if we want to see an end to mass shootings (and Australia has proven that it’s possible to actually end them), we have no choice but to dismantle not only the laws but also the norms that make the protection of gun ownership a greater priority than the protection of human lives. A society that continues to flatly refuse to do so will continue to mourn tens of thousands of preventable deaths, every year. We will continue to carry the weight of tens of thousands of shattered families. … Continue reading What do mass shootings and police killings have in common? America’s sick gun culture.

If tattoos are so beautiful how come no one except convicted murderers, put them on their face?? Question everything…   Continue reading If Tattoos Are So Beautiful…

This is an exerpt Continue reading Play of Colors…