“For all the talk about inalienable human rights and guaranteed freedoms, the only true freedom is the freedom of thought. The moment you are able to read an entire universe of wonder and possibility opens up to you. No longer will you be confined to the dark, subjugated to...
I’m sometimes amused by the path that my chaotic and random thoughts take in reaching a particular destination; that journey of intellectual clarity and discovery that so often results from seemingly innocent origins which eventually leads to some profound personal endpoint. I was trolling the internet today, neither looking...
I couldn’t sleep well last night, so I was laying in bed with a thousand different things running through my head. As a result of that, here’s a little Monday morning thought for those who hide behind a twisted interpretation of their manuals of religious dogma and wave them...
I’m getting really annoyed with the idiots who constantly write ‘2morrow’ instead of ‘tomorrow’- or any of the various bad grammar forms that plague the internet in blog posts, message boards, and other digital media- like it’s perfectly normal and acceptable English. It’s not; and you’re a moron for thinking it...
Whether you love it or hate it, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does a damn good job at pointing out the idiocy spewed from all points along the political spectrum. It’s not the fault of the writers of the show that the vast majority of that idiocy comes...
So another year draws to a close. So many faces, places, memories, triumphs, and fails. All in all it’s been a pretty good year. Here’s a few links to the most memorable moments of 2012- 2012- A Year in Review Tennessee 2012 – Part 1 Tennessee 2012 – Part...
Alright, people, we get it. Geez! People are making so many apocalypse jokes, it’s as if there’s no tomorrow. So, this is what the apocalypse looks like? To me it looks like just another typical, boring day at work. (O.o)? Oh, shit! That’s it! We’ve all died and gone...
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, is an autobiographical memoir of Walls’ and her siblings’ unconventional and poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of deeply dysfunctional parents. The book, published in 2005, pulls on the heartstrings of readers with its resonating and poignant topics; but the parents of a student...
There has been debate over some communities displaying “Holiday Trees” instead of “Christmas Trees.” This debate is silly. It is wasteful of your time, spirit, and energy. The name is unimportant, just as in Shakespeare’s famous line of “a rose by any other name…” Call it what you will, but the...
I recenty uploaded 12 images from my Autumn Day in Dodge Park. They are now available as prints on my deviantArt site- http://t.co/mDt2FXZR