Definitely a major line in the sand was permanently crossed. Leagues beyond 9/11 or the Financial Crisis or anything prior, excepting maybe the world wars or major historical wars. The last of our innocence was destroyed. Permanent traumatization now. For anyone who was alive during this period. And frankly, no, I’m not sure what it…
Current Events
Taking Up The Cross
Lent has officially begun for those who celebrate it. For non-Christians, look at it as a very long red carpet that takes 40 days to walk down and eventually leads to and ends at the death and alleged Reserection of the Jewish rebel Jesus of Nazareth, what in the commercial world is known as Easter.Mardi…
There Will Be No Impeachment, But There Should Be
Well there it is. Trump defense attorneys were well prepared and just made incredibly valid points supporting their claim that he should not be impeached by the senate for the capital siege. They are in the process of presenting countless examples of extremist calls for violence and uprisings by people on the left as a…
Death Man, Death. Death Is In, Death Is In
2 weeks ago we were down in Florida due to our dad passing away from the virus. Got home Monday and the next day we learned that our eldest cousin, my uncle’s firstborn, passed away suddenly. A few days later my buddy Stretch called me crying because he just learned his 30 year old nephew…
It’s Not Cancel Culture. It’s Course Correction. And It’s Been a Long Time Coming
There are a lot of legends and myths being promoted at the moment in America. For a variety of different reasons. All of them selfish and none of them helpful to the greater good. We have to be careful about what we hear and how we allow it to affect us. Often times the most…
It’s Not Cancel Culture, It’s Course Correction
On July 4th 2020, on the 244th birthday celebration of the United States of America, Ed Hale delivered a speech entitled Its Not Cancel Culture, It’s Course Correction, wherein he explains that many of the recent societal shifts we are seeing in modern times are not part of a “cancel culture” mentality or conspiracy, but…
Challenging Times
I don’t know about you. But lately I’ve been starting to break, physically beginning to feel the mental and emotional strain caused by an unshakable intuitive feeling of fear that we’re deliberately being f*^ked with by some higher power or unstoppable force from beyond. Can’t say for sure what specific event it was in the…
The Divided States of America — The Two State Solution
Find the original essay “Ultimately the only hopeful future I see for the United States is the end of the union. The East and West coasts should split off from the Midwest and the South and let them slide back into fascism on their own before they drag the rest of the continent down with…
Ability — Talented Versus Gifted
I wasn’t aware of this necessarily; but after seeing your post and contemplating it, what felt the most real and solid for me is that we (humans, not sure if it extends to all forms of consciousness) are born with a proclivity for heightened ability in some areas of being and doing, a “natural ability”;…
Facebook Versus Twitter In An Existential Ethical Battle
If life were fair, we’d all be using Twitter instead of Facebook. But life is only fair in our imagination and the stories we tell ourselves through our movies and religions. Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse in the ethically challenged world of Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg just returned from a speaking…