Priorities

Featured Image by freestocks.org. Follow the link for more images. The new year has come and gone, and we now have a new administration that says it is focused on “shutting down the virus.” They won their election on the assumption that Trump didn’t have a plan, and promised “100 million vaccines in 100 days.” […]

Why religion Matters

Featured image by Uttam Sheth. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I’m not an evangelical. I don’t personally believe in going out and spreading the Gospel. I would much rather live a good life and pray that God uses me. Living a good life, treating others with respect, and working on myself […]

Tools

Watch closely friends, the party is just getting started.

Unplugging

Featured image by frankieleon. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I think it’s time to unplug, to get off the constant input of insanity that is pumped into our digital world through the windows of the computer and the fun-house mirrors of social media. Technology is a funny thing, helping to make […]

Why Free Speech Matters

Featured image by Michelle Grewe. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I have said before that we must be responsible with our rights. We have the freedoms to speech, assembly, the press, petition, and religion. These freedoms, enshrined in our Constitution, are… or were… meant to be absolute. Congress could not abridge […]

Inauguration Day

It is inauguration day in this country.

The Shielding Approach

Featured image by Gary Todd. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I generally am skeptical of conspiracy theories. When someone tells me about this thing being connected to some larger group of people that are given near god-like powers, I tend to disbelieve. Real-life tends to be much more boring than the […]

The Illusion of Economic Freedom

Featured image from Business Insider. Follow the link for more info. I love the concept of laissez-faire market capitalism. An individual creates a product or service that they voluntarily exchange with another producer of a product or service for mutual benefit. This benefit creates both wealth and specialization, which allows for larger community groups to […]

Not so different after all

Featured image from Wikipedia. Follow the link for more info. I’ve been listening to the audio books for Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game saga over the last few months as I try and keep what sanity remains from the craziness that was 2020, the elections, pandemic, and all of the general anxiety and discord being […]

The Social Media Black Hole

Featured image by Daniel Steelman. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Real life is an amazing thing. Of course, right now with all the COVID restrictions in my state, life is a bit challenging at the moment. And depending on how the vaccine rolls out, it may never really be the same […]