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Advantages and disadvantages of being older        For the record I am age 64 and a male.             First the advantages.      ...

Just a personal story about where I live             Where I live is the Cumberland Plateau in east Tennessee.             And I dri...

The die has been cast        What a shame this has had to happen, like the probable collapse of life as we enjoy it.   The good news is ...

It is our government One should not make a post when emotional about a subject, so this post is an exception. In other words, it is not ...

Just my lens I think our present USA federal President is not too smart. I offer as evidence his many statements to date. I also think, th...

The cupboard is getting bare Let's start restocking it. Of course this is an analogy to present day USA, at least in my mind. After ...

A special time in our American history Much like waves washing ashore, or the tide ebbing and flowing, we Americans may be approaching a ...

It is funny about fads The subject is the various kinds of cars to purchase in 2012. To me, a Ga Tech geek I guess, I would summarize the ...

Connecting the dots This post is somewhere between worse casing things, and psycho babble stuff. Yet I post it, anyway...even at the expens...

We all have alternatives In most of our cases our choices are most simple, like a choice of a spouse, a choice of a job, or etc. etc. This...

We pesky humans Logic suggests to me we should always do the things that will benefit us. Unfortunately, this logic avoids the human elem...

The New World USA is special in human history Why do I think so? Mostly it is because I have lived elsewhere, and have seen the difference...

Marriage and middle America When our elected leaders vote laws that break up marriages for welfare reasons, then we get what is happening n...

Good on TVA Now there is much to be said about our poorly performing governments. I would agree with most criticisms these days. But in t...

Changing the system The beauty of what the system is in the new world USA is that we can still vote, and have it count. Now that is a big ...

Enough already Forget politics...how about my quality of life and expectations. Having lived around the world, I know we have a good deal ...

Double standard Does it seem to you that the idea of a double standard seems to be getting worse recently, like in the last 20 years or les...

One path to our future We the people are gonna decide. Now the path may be convoluted. This obviously includes the idea of our culture ev...

This is a food story It is kinda neat, to me, when we humans from different cultures meet each other. Often there is friction, which is kin...

Story time We New World USA Americans are not too shabby! And we still like stories to be told to us at all ages I think. And I know we l...