Oh how America loves a great fall. I’ve held back on the recent Tiger Woods watch, not because there was nothing to talk about but more so there was so much to talk about and astoundingly not about Woods himself.
What was there to talk about? How about, booty calls, ambien, the institution of marriage, how women feel about infidelity versus how men feel about it. There’s the difference between getting a little something something on the side when you’re rich vs. when you’re poor and have to pick your date up in a Ford Focus instead of a yacht called ‘Privacy’. Be honest, if Tiger’s name was Lamont, drove a Corolla and was the manager at Jack In The Box, there would be no scandal. There’s the guys who say how stupid Tiger was that with all that money he should have never gotten caught and women say how Elin should get half of that money after only five years of marriage.
There’s the tabloid, and digital media like US and OK and People Magazine (Yeah, I said their names and People Magazine, yes you are a tabloid.) whom have clearly taken sides with their female base. Online publications one would think would be above the fray like the Huffington Post, CNN, and others, eventually strayed from reporting and gave in to the sensationalism of it all and started their own girlfriend count and embraced anything that TMZ had to say, confirmed or not. Read more...(1061 words, 21 images, estimated 4:15 mins reading time)
I originally wrote this piece in early August of 2009 in hopes that it would stir thought with regard to the need to be as vigilant after the election as it was to be during the election process. Those who wanted change have, for whatever reasons, allowed the status quo to muddy the waters of a greater goal with the minutia of “no”. So much so that the seat of one of the greatest champions for change has gone to someone who is the antithesis of what he believed in. Of course, I’m speaking about the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts being won by Republican Scott Brown. But… he should have won. His competitor did something that not even after decades in the Senate, Ted Kennedy never did, she took the support of her constituents for granted and assumed she would merely grandfathered in. I hope this is a lesson and lesson learned.
As a ‘Left To Center’ writer, it pains me to acknowledge this, however, now that Obama is successfully in office it appears that the grass roots machine that was most responsible for getting him there are off sipping merlot. They have disappeared, allowing the Conservative Right to pick up the gauntlet and have their way with Tea Parties, Birther Movements, disseminating confusing and false information about health care reform and sitting back while even the most immediate successful programs of this administration (Cash For Clunkers) are maligned. Where did the heart go? Forget heart, can the new President at least get an ole simple Face Book page dedicated to the efforts so many voted for? There used to be tons.Read more...(1161 words, 21 images, estimated 4:39 mins reading time)
It didn’t hit me after the attack on the USS Cole when stationed in Yemen. I didn’t ask it after the first World Trade Center attack nor 9/11. I didn’t ask this pertinent question after the 2004 Madrid train bombing or the 1993 killing of US soldiers in Somalia, the 1996 truck bombing at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the shoe bomber, the 2002 bombings in a synagogue in Tunisia, night club bombings in Bali, suicide attack on a hotel in Mombasa Kenya, truck bombs in London, car bombs in Istanbul or when nearly 100 people died when two women suicide bombers, who are believed to be mentally impaired, attack crowded pet markets in eastern Baghdad.
None of this prompted me to examine this question until some kid was willing to strap on a pair of exploding underwear and attempt to bring down a plane on it’s way to Detroit Michigan (As if Detroit has not been hit enough by the economic bomb.). What the heck does Al Qaeda want? Does anyone really know? In all this madness of color coded terror alerts or cavity searches in order to get on an airplane ride at a street fair, does the everyday person even know what they want? I mean, our lives are constantly on the line, we should know something, right? Read more...(705 words, 21 images, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)
The Swine Flu. It’s been classified as a pandemic. The government has been accused of not doing enough to get the controversial H1N1 vaccine to where it’s needed most. So… why are there reports like this:
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