Author name: ryan

As the age of oil winds down, a variety of interlinked forces are in play. Dave outlines a framework spanning roughly the last 100 years that helps put oil, gold, cryptocurrency, disinformation, radicalization, and the pandemic in perspective, and offers ideas about how we might overcome the looming climate emergency. He also addresses questions posed […]

The reality of living in Alabama is that when my federal representatives come up in news feeds the first ‘flinch’ is to delete the trending mechanism on my ‘search’. Who wants news of some banal celebrity gossip that adds up to nothing?  For one, they are a nuisance anywhere you live.  Two, it’s going to

I may have have said it before.  I really don’t get mad at politicians like most people.  I get mad at voters or special interests groups………………the root of the issue. The forces who put politicians into leadership. That’s always been my personality, that being in always getting at the source of the problem. Realistically, politicians

I’m no different than anyone out there in that opening up my mailbox can be stressful. There are those times you love it, when you purchased something you’ve really wanted and it comes.  Then there are those when you are waiting on something you’ve wanted only to find:  that particular package still hasn’t arrived and

For a hot minute, I thought I may be wrong about all of the hard work I put into Will Boyd’s Senatorial campaign in the fall of 2022 as a participant in donating, contacting radio stations and setting out yard signs. I even got into an online tiff with a prominent political pundit from a

I reword this essay seconds after I just saw the tag line from a health guru I follow, discussing the link between face to face interaction and longevity. The science community has recently tagged news addiction more appropriately as headline stress disorder. It took me getting aggrevated at my old google email account to really want

This past summer I took a course from the University of Tennessee’s Center For Professional Education and Lifelong Learning, Achieving Success With Difficult People. It was a course concerning more about office dynamics and the different personalities you may encounter at work. Yet, it can be translated to life in general. There was a section

Good morning everyone. Usually in ths space is an opinion piece concerning how, myself as founder of Heart of Dixie Obligation PAC views modern policy and politics.  Today will be different.  I’d like to introduce you to two newsources which are not only non partisan (although they may not seem that way to conspiracy minded

The evening of January 31st of this year was my 7th or so time on set.  The second for a movie and same number for a Netflix production. Minor talent as I like to call myself so I can differentiate myself from a tree, car or grass-which are also background set pieces in productions; like