Author name: ryan

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

I was a day behind the ‘cultural’ curve in regards to what happened during the opening events of this year’s olympics.  I had to hear about it in Sunday school.  You know…………….when drag queens produced a photo of a spoof of the Lord’s Supper.  Personally, I found it putrid.  Not only because it presented a

During an interview on Fox News with Tucker Carlson in 2022, then Senatorial candidate JD Vance, claimed that America is being ruined by ‘childless cat women.’ During the interview his stated thesis: was people who did not have biological offspring did not have a stake in society as much as those who do. And because

Reader by the time you are seeing this……………..I’m about to close out my 2024 political obligations: phone banking, post carding and donating to PACS and candidates and watch parties.  Oh the watch parties!  Close nit friends or strangers who are sure to become friends (Calhoun County Democrats). This year an event where you realize that

Up until the end of last week, my post apocalyptic debate view point was akin to any July Alabama day. There would be clouds, then sunshine, rain and thunder. Then the sun would come back out. A metaphor of my vascillating between feeling Biden could pull out a win in four months vs. hoping the

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