NaNoWriMo
Someone give me a powerful and elaborate reason why I should sign up for NaNo this year (being the first time I will have done it). And I don’t mean a rampaging “NaNo is awezum, you muz do itz cuz it roxors” stuff. A good, valid, convincing reason for me to do it despite all […]
McCain = Hypocrit
This will be short, but I should also mention that I will be talking about politics on occasion here. The reason being that this is my blog and, well, I want to talk about politics a little. You’re free to ignore the posts on politics, or argue with me if you feel the need to. […]
What Happened to America?
Maybe I’m just naive. Maybe I grew up not having to worry about things like racism, bigotry, discrimination (with school bullying aside), and other such horrors that so many people apparently deal with on a day to day basis. Maybe the reason I find myself so reactive to discriminatory/bigoted politics is precisely because my mother […]
The Financial Market Put to Rest (For Now)
I will let the wonderful L. E. Modesitt, Jr. say what I’d love to say. This is exactly why the Bush Doctrine is an utter failure, along with many of the political designs the preceded it. That is all. (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)
Broaching the Education/Science Problem (one stop at a time)
The other day I had a rather unusual experience while walking downtown on my way to the bus stop and ultimately home up in the lovely forested mountains. It started in front of Borders. There was a crowd and some really big things sitting in the middle of the sidewalk. It occurred to me, after […]
This Is Not the Great Depression x 2
Take this into account before we all start tossing our cookies and thinking the world is crumbling into another Great Depression and the U.S. is going to fall apart, or that life is ever so hard right now: 1930sPopulation: Roughly 123,000,000 (census was taken in 1930, so there will have been growth)Unemployment Rates: In 1930 […]