Hate Personified….
The one glimmer of hope I found in the GOP convention just ended was the number of empty seats in the Cleveland arena. It seems that HATE is not a big selling point for many. But that is… Read More
Risk Taking…
There is a big portion of our population who are just risk averse. They shutter at the very idea of risk or almost any other change for that matter. Risk to them is to be avoided at all… Read More
Now That I Notice It…
I don’t know when it first caught my attention but since then I have seen it again and again. It seems that whenever you get a conservative and a progressive across the table from each other with a… Read More
Paul or Plato – Part II…
This is a continuation of the post about two distinctive worldveiws so prevalent in our society today. Let me say up front that even with violating my self imposed 500 word limit on posts this will only very… Read More
About Conservatives…..
I am have been thinking about the word “conservative” lately and how I thought it defines me as far as fiscal things go and how it seems to define many of my friends as a general philosophy…. Read More
With Teeth & Compassion….
“Can we make legislation with enough teeth in them for conservatives and compassion for liberals?” I heard the above phrase, or at least something close to it, from a news commentator recently. I wish I could cite the… Read More
The Slippery Slope…..
I am totally sick of the “slippery slope” that my conservative friends so often cling to!! If I hear another person give me a slippery slope story I just might punch them. The idea of the slippery… Read More
Being Broad Minded….
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity – Will Rogers I can certainly understand this quote from Will. The adversity in my life, although coming more frequently than I would like, has certainly made me more broad-minded. Coming… Read More
My Conservative Friend….
I just visited the blog of one of my Conservative friends. Like so many others he claims he is an independent but everything on his blog has a VERY right leaning slant. My friend is currently ranting about… Read More
About Fox News….
sen·sa·tion·al·ism [sen-sey-shuh-nl-iz-uhm] –noun 1. subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste. 2. the use of or interest in this subject matter, language, or style: The cheap tabloids relied on sensationalism to increase their circulation. When I ran across this definition the absolutely first thing I thought of was Fox News. I also admit that after thinking of it a bit MSNBC also came to… Read More
Paying Taxes….
This post is going to start a new category for me entitled “My Conservative Friend”. It will be about some conversations I have had with some of my conservative friends. It will also be about some of the… Read More
