What is gained?

Featured image by Pom’. Follow for more of this artist’s work. What is gained by rioting? What is accomplished in using force to occupy a space or cause destruction? Seriously? What positive effect results from the Pro-Trump rally turned protest turned riot. Several years ago, there was a group that prevented Ben Shapiro from speaking […]

An American Reichstag Fire

Many people believe that these types of things could never happen to this country, that somehow our existence and history transcends the patterns and desires of human nature.

So it begins.

If the American People wish to have any semblance of a country left, they must tell the people who think that it is acceptable to storm the capital loudly and collectively “NO.”

A Wednesday Rant

And all the while we treat each other like crabs in a pot…

And we’re supposed to be grateful.

Featured image by Alabama Extension. Follow the link for more… We’re getting another payment… yippee… I hope you can recognize the sarcasm in my writing. After months of back and forth “negotiations,” Congress has finally passed a second economic stimulus, promising payments of $600 for each adult making up to $75,000 (or $150,000 for married […]

Third Law

It is almost as if we’re beginning to see the repercussions of the various actions performed by disparate and unaligned groups against the governed population.

Why standards matter

Featured image from Know Your Meme. Follow the link for more info. I was poking around on social media as I do seemingly more and more as an observer rather than a poster. Many more of my posts either deal with other, innocuous things, or they link to my blog here. I’ve grown more and […]

Take a breath.

Featured image by John Young. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I think that we can all take a collective breath. The Electoral College voted, Biden is now President-Elect. The lawsuits were thrown out, and the legal challenge clock has hit triple zeroes. The results were unsurprising to me, and I am […]

Saturation

Featured image by TheInvertedFan. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I am unsure whether to write this post as a simple observation of where we are in our society, or as a grim warning for those who think that we can be pushed too far, or as a a miasmatic voice in […]

Savages

Human beings are complicated creatures, capable of both great good and great evil.