The big topic du jour right now is health care reform. And what follows are a few of my thoughts and observations on the health care reform debate overall. I will try to avoid any pointlessly political overtones, since it's too easy, just generates anger and shock value and usually goes nowhere but to distract from real and meaningful dialogue ( Read more... )

The text of Obama's speech to schoolchildren tomorrow (today)Really? All you hardcore uber-neo-conservatives who receive your marching orders from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are making such a big stink about this? A message encouraging children to work hard and do well in school so that they may do well in life is really that subversive and evil ( Read more... )

...so in consideration of the title, here is a needlessly cruel and pointless rant ( Read more... )

In my last entry, I received a request from one the_glass_jc to bequeath onto the Great World Out There my views on the Obama presidency up to this point. A valid request to be sure; I have been pretty mum politically for the past few months now. And considering how vocal I sometimes am about things that don't matter all that much to regular people like me, I ( Read more... )

Barack Obama is now president-elect of the United States of America, as I am sure everyone knows now. I voted for him, and if you'd like to know why, I will tell you on request. The focus of this entry, however, is to cover some of the specific Arizona elections and the impact they had.

( Kinda long and dry, but I felt like typing it... )

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2243279We have been told not to blame the oil companies for the price of gas. However, that is a load of bull-honky. It's simple...if the price of oil is really increasing so much due to external factors, like increasing world demand and decreasing supply, ask yourself why all of these oil companies are ( Read more... )