Author name: ryan

You’d think people would complain about Cracker Barrel because they try to hold them hostage with their gift shop (which they do me with all of their ‘sweet tooth’ offerings). Or by subjecting them to highly sugared and processed foods that cause all sorts of health problems. Or with their delicious yet fattening foods which […]

I’ll never forget the strange encounter I had on Easter Sunday in 2015.  Looking back it would seem I did not behave in any way to incur strife from other patrons that evening when I went to watch soccer at a local Applebee’s.  Save for the fact I chose to eat at Applebee’s!  Another chain

It’s nothing new that conservative Christians are being hoodwinked into voting against their interests from a moral perspective.  It’s a dynamic that started in the late seventies and early eighties in the Reagan years, having a genesis with political activists like Paul Weyrich; with the world view of protecting school segregation under the cloak of the

I received an email just this morning via another political fundraising network trying to raise money on behalf of the Alabama Democratic Party.  I sent some money to them last week.  I now regret doing so.  Just like last week’s message, this one was about trying to stop Alabama Senator, Tommy Tuberville, from being able

Just yesterday I got livid with another divisive auto window decal. And of all things I was on my way to a date set up with a woman I’d been speaking to for a couple of weeks by phone.  It was to be one of the better Sunday’s of the year.   My time on my

Former Congressional Representative Cori Bush of Missouri once lived out of her car.  Up until twenty years ago it would’ve been unheard of for anyone like that ever being able to have an opportunity to run for federal office.  According to Forbes $15.9 billion was spent last year across all federal races.  The Harris campaign accrued $1.6 billion while Trump’s

Installed in 1961 by John F. Kennedy, the U.S. Agency for International Development has more than just displayed mercy to suffering under developed nations.  It has brought good will as perception from those countries needing help toward American citizens. Even conservative administrations like George W. Bush’s saw merit in it’s outcomes. In 2019 I traveled to Tanzania

I am halfway through a feature of Jon Favreau’s Offline podcast. Today he is hosting Dr. Gloria Mark author of her book Attention Span. Listening to the podcast up until this point feels as if they are speaking to me. It is evident we need to unplug to mitigate mental exhaustion. Exhaustion from unsolicited robo

Tom Hanks and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez ran off to South America and months later Cortez birthed a half- human half -frog baby. The tragic plane crash over the Potomac River just last week had zero fatalities. You see, all passengers were taken underwater and into a tunnel under the river, under Washing and back

After yesterday’s news that President Dingleshit pardoned the insurrectionists from the January 6th 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection, letting them out of prisons all over the country; Republican legislators found comfortable hiding places away from news outlets like elevators or stairwells. The most peculiar development concerning the day though was the announcement from one of the