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Time for a change in the USA I am age 63 and I perceive change I do not like. Right now I think I can still vote, and have it count, like pu...

What a privilege in life The subject is on demand public electricity. The obvious example is that when I turn the switch to get light in my...

A change we can believe in Things may be more simple than we thought. While the details can drive about any one crazy, the principles are p...

What goes up must come down And vice versa, too. Many things seem inevitable, in a good sort of way. We humans do vote with our feet, and ...

The light bulb finally goes on This is just a report from where I live in east Tennessee and on the Cumberland Plateau. I know a fellow (a...

The value of the sports experience There are things we learn in school, and also out of school. Sports is such an example of out of school ...

Why do humans keep loaning us money? Us is the USA. Obviously, to me, it is because they can make money, and have trust and faith in the U...

Great change is underway I always wondered what it was like to live and think during the time of the American Revolution. Now I think I get...

On the nature of change I think most Americans want change, mostly in those elected, vice a change in the system of government we use. This...

She's a slut and he's a dumb ass It has always bothered me that if a guy has an affair while he is married, then he is guilty of so...

Have you ever been cold and hungry? Well, I have. Here's a post from a local newspaper a couple of months ago. Op Walker Talks Oatmeal...

Human foibles For me, the subject means human flaws, like design defects in the way we are made. The classic ways I was taught were things...

Short changing our children To me it is a sacred responsibility to provide our kids an education that will give them every advantage in lif...

On the nature of atrocities during war Now we have another example, that to me, shows why war is so terrible, to include revolt, revolution...

The silliness of it all It doesn't have to happen this way, but it is. What do I mean by "silly"? To me it means where I li...

Descending into anarchy The Occupy "movement" reminds me of this idea of the patients are in control of the asylum. I myself don...

The inevitability of it all Even the basic tea leaf reader could see it coming. When fellow humans quit loaning the new world USA money, ...

The pace of change Change is constant, which is normal. Like our children will simply not think like we do, like it or not. But in the sa...

This is a good time to be a political propagandist After all, you can say about anything, even lie; and more often than not, apparently laz...

Scourges of humanity Disease and famine are scourges of humanity. Now many scourges are caused by mother nature, but we humans have done o...