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Meanwhile in 2022
Good grief! Every time I think I am going to do a new entry here, life happens.
Okay, so I am still in Southwest Oklahoma, having moved a couple of times within Comanche County. A few life changes, but otherwise all is well. Once I get my workplace stuff sorted, I will commit to writing a much longer post.
In the meanwhile, I hope that you guys are ( Read more... ) -
An Open Question....
Would the Zimmerman murder trial matter nationally in the media if the victim was any race other than black, and the accused was any race other than "white Hispanic ( Read more... ) -
And now a word about INFINITY
Forever.
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Interestingly enough...
This has been quite the year for yours truly. I had hoped to have written more on this side of the social network, but Facebook was the primary recipient of my muses ( Read more... ) -
Meanwhile....
Yup, 2012 is a political year. Everyone is out there trying to make the case for this candidate and that cause ( Read more... ) -
Musings on the PPACA (aka Obamacare) Debate
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA, aka Obamacare) is perhaps one of the most deceptively labeled, deceptively marketed, and deceptively authored pieces of legislation ever to be created by a US Congress in the history of the Republic.
Signed into law on March 23, 2010, Vice President Biden couldn’t have spoken truer words ( Read more... ) -
Food for thought..
The veneer of Western Civilization is far more vulnerable than we can possibly imagine.
When you look at the waves of uncivil discussion and over-the-top hyperbole and discourse (online and elsewhere), one has to wonder how is it that we all manage to keep it all together?
The answer is actually very simple: continuity of the actively enforced rule ( Read more... ) -
About my Dad
Eugene Martin Wicks is my father. He was born on Tuesday, June 11th, 1935 in the city of Philadelphia, PA. That was 28,015 days ago and approximately 342 miles southeast from where he is today, in the city of Rochester, New York, the place where he will shortly leave this celestial plane.
The world was a very different place, still gripped in ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
Taking ownership of one's own life begins with knowing (and accepting) the current landscape for what it is.
What does that REALLY mean, anyway?
It means, for starts, that YOU are literally not the center of the universe. Unless you are a minor child living with legally responsible adults, NOBODY owes you anything. If you sit in a classroom and elect ( Read more... ) -
Yes, I am still alive...
I am actually in the middle of a strategic move in more ways than one. The geographic one is going to take a month to complete, but the less obvious ones will take even more time to complete ( Read more... )