Author name: ryan

One of the things I feared as a child was a peculiar phobia of vomit. I can stand needles and blood. I’m an avid blood donor for truth’s sake. I loved all of those campy horror movies back in the 1980’s. But even as an adult I cannot stand seeing where someone has gotten sick […]

Reader, I kept dreading it each time news feeds wanting my addiction, as promised to it’s advertisers; tried to get me to read an article about former President Jimmy Carter through ‘trending’ prompts. I did not want to see news that had announced his homecoming. Comfortingly, when I’d fall for their ploy I’d see that

During one of his final public and only independent based media interviews with Meidas Touch’s, Ben Meiselas; President, Joe Biden, was asked why he would not take the low road approach and skip the Inauguration on January 20th, as his predecessor did four years ago.  He summarized that, that is not what the Constitution allows citizens to do. 

It’s funny what an election will do. I’ve noticed a lot less grievance from the fanatical Trumpian culture here around my Northeastern Alabama community. As if they were crying infants in the night finally given their blanket. Not seen as much are the ridiculous flags flown from trucks. All of the yard signs and snarky

Another election cycle has come and gone.  In spite of the fact most average voters would want the security of adequate healthcare coverage, all political parties in the U.S. never endorse a candidate who would move America toward access to free health care.   Candidates such as Bernie Sanders for instance.  Candidates who are seen as

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