In my entire adult life I have beaten the drum to vote. If you don’t vote you don’t have a say – I honestly believe that. Casting your vote is one of the single most important things you can do as a United States citizen. The fact that someone wouldn’t exercise that right seems mind boggling. Yet, I find myself really weighing whether or not I want to be a party anymore to the political discourse this country seems to be grinding out.
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Unions – it would seem you either love them or hate them, well that is unless your me. I can’t figure out if Union’s are good or bad. One thing is for sure, they’ve been in the news a bunch lately. From Wisconsin to the NFL, it would seem that Unions are the talk of the town. (more…)
Question – how hard is it to keep your vehicle between the lines? I’m asking because it seems more and more folks are ignoring parking lines. Well, I’m here to tell you they are not optional! So here’s your lesson – when you pull into a parking space, make sure that you are centered between the two lines. Do you think you can remember that? It’s pretty simple, yet I inevitably see 10 – 15 violations of this simple common courtesy every week. (more…)
I never really understood the draw to these long grueling events that are designed to break you. I’m not a runner, never have been. Even when I played sports I always hated the long distance “get it shape run”. I was never opposed to wind sprints, but the 5 miles runs you could keep. So what exactly drew me to the Tough Mudder well lets examine that. (more…)
I’m a football fan, no bones about it I love me some football. I have routed for the Giants my whole life. I can remember as a kid growing up in Queens New York telling everyone I liked the Giants even though everyone around me were Jets fans. Now it wasn’t that I didn’t like the Jets, I was an underdog guy and at the time the Giants were the underdogs. So hence I’m a big blue guy, who blows veins out of the front of his forehead when they play poorly. (more…)
It’s pretty simple, the way I see it. If Ralph Nader never threw his hat into the political ring in 2000 Al Gore would have won the election and the world would have been a different place. John McCain might have run again sooner, meaning he would not have been senile and probably would have made a rational choice for VP and lost again to Gore! (more…)
It’s been eight days! Why isn’t the economy fixed, why isn’t everyone back to work? I hear that the new Republican led house is going to let 11 year olds with cancer not be insured so they expire so they be more social security for the children that didn’t get sick! I here that they are going to create panels around it, death panels if you will! (more…)
When I was younger we studied in school how Christopher Columbus came to the Americas and discovered this great land. We knew the names of the ships – The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria. We knew that in fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. We were led to believe that this Italian dude hired by the Spaniards (fresh off the inquisition) under the rule of the Catholic Church was a hero. Well there’s a funny thing about being a kid – you grow up, you stop playing with legos and you start to build actual houses. Having a National Holiday named after Christopher Columbus is no different then giving the likes of Hitler his own national holiday. (more…)
Before last week’s primaries, anyone that was listening to talking point right wing gas bags took utter pride in telling us how the Democrats are in trouble. They would say that Obama and his band of merry politicians would be out in 2012 and this country would usher back in backbone and reason. This country would once again rise from the ashes and shine proudly again. To which I would say, I don’t think the Dems are in as much trouble as Rush Limbaugh would lead you to believe — however, if enough of these tea baggers get through, it’s not the Dems that are in trouble, it’s the Guardians of Privilege that will be in a world of hurt. (more…)
Those that know me know I’m a huge fan of blues music. Every Sunday night between 6 and 10 p.m. I do a program called the Blue Cadillac on 92.7FM which is dedicated to hip American Music better known as The Blues. Well this past weekend, right in our own back yard, we had the second Annual Vermont Blues Festival, or as I like to call it — Mecca. I don’t often write about my love for this type of music, but I felt like I needed to this time. (more…)
