Author name: ryan

Just this morning I opened an email from the president of the Calhoun County Democrats here in Alabama. It included a link to a YouTube interview she provided the world. Like so many sensible, unselfish, decent and sane citizens, she was still deflated as to what took place two weeks ago; yet resolute concerning what […]

I stay off of social media except for answering messages or locating group activity announcements to place onto my calendar.  For good reason, the things people express on social media are mostly trash!  And as we all know when it comes to culture war issues, that’s the only thing people talk about.  What so and

As we wind down another general election cycle, the gravitas of every politico, researcher and sectors of society who care about such things is sucked into the vacuum that is news of what is transpiring in ‘swing states.’  That’s primarily because Republican led states will not give, what they perceive as an electoral disadvantage by

Reader, there are good things about older and traditional conservatism.  Not many, yet some.  For example, the world view of honest work and reaping those deserved benefits only after that chore is completed and finished in competency. Yet, as we have gotten past a new century, conservatism has taken a darker, more selfish and more

If you are like me, a college football game is usually a great escape from all of the sociopolitical turmoil we experience most everyday now. In my case it was certainly a fantastic celebration of my past and present. Being that I graduated from UA, taught in their adult learning program just last September and

Another hurricane has devastated parts of the South.  At face value, a hurricane in September is not unusual.  It’s not an event alone that would indicate man- made issues are affecting our weather.   200 years ago, before industrialization, this same type of occurrence was taking place in our part of the world.  It always has

Reader, not many are coming out and saying it directly.  Even the most altruistic voters can’t place their fingers on it.  The only types are sociologists and journalists.  There is movement in our society and even around the world of what I dub “cruelty is cool” culture.  I can’t forget that bumper sticker we’d all

Late last week U.S. District 9 Judge, Philip Gutierrez, made a final decision against plaintiffs in their 14 billion dollar Sunday Ticket Lawsuit. If you are like me, you’ve never really paid for the Sunday ticket to watch your out of market sports teams. Mine are the San Francisco 49’rs, who I adopted when I

I’d make a great gardener. I’m always seeking the root of socio-political problems in our modern times. Knowing it’s usually never the politicians themselves. For they have bosses who buy them and control them or hire them and control them. In a healthy society it’s where we hire them and control them. In a malignant

If you remember from a post months ago, I told you the story about the eavesdropping hotel owner in my hometown named Nanda. How I knew nothing about her until she sent me a ‘friend’ request on Facebook in order to monitor my private/public life on behalf of a family who stalked me in the