I remember writing about the evolution of the human soul a few months ago and waxing philosophical on what a fascinating phenomenon it is to witness. It is the ability of men and women to evolve after reaching a point of enlightenment regarding basic characteristics of their own being that gives me a lot of…
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Preserving our humanity
Inner peace is the most precious intangible any soul can find, achieve or arrive at as a destination. Each individual must seek to find that often ethereal and elusive sense of well-being that provides that reassurance from a still small voice emanating from deep within that tells them all is right with their World. This…
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Is it my imagination or is there really a growing number of people seeking to better the World and their own lot in it? That query may perhaps be purely rhetorical but from my vantage point I can validate that it is not my imagination. I may not be able to speak for the entire…
Continue ReadingBill Maher: HBO live at the Brady Theater
Tulsa’s Brady Theater played host to another of those life-enhancing events for the liberal and progressive minded folks who reside along this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Few celebrity comedians validate progressive values and touch all the right nerves of liberals immersed in life in Red State America with the precision and…
Continue ReadingA clarion call for social change
One of the motivating reasons for creating this unofficial publication was to provide an alternative viewpoint on political, social and cultural issues from a locality that is lodged in a perpetual state of conservative traditionalism rooted in evangelical Christian patriarchy. I’ve heard more than a few visitors from other places in the USA and overseas…
Continue ReadingWitness to a movement: Marching for their lives
Power concedes nothing without demand. Those in government who currently wield the power of crafting legislation and have done nothing in the face of the crisis generated by mass school shootings were served notice on Saturday. A genuine grassroots movement is on the rise and their collective voices demanding action to reign in gun violence…
Continue ReadingEnding the safeguarded impunity of one industry
Some regular readers may recall more than a couple of instances when I have rhetorically alluded to “stacking up the bodies” in reference to government deregulating industry with reckless abandon. Even as you read this the stack of bodies from American mass shootings continues to grow. To remain positive while writing this I really have…
Continue ReadingA moral and humanitarian failure of leadership
What benefits any person, group or nation to gain all the material wealth in the known universe but to ultimately lose the very essence of the core of their own soul? That is one existential question which Yours Truly has been forced by public statements and actions (or lack thereof) made by certain government officials…
Continue ReadingPicking up the pieces of shattered trust
So we never thought it could happen to us. I’m sure we would all love to think that. This particular train of thought is a familiar cerebral pathway unique to many of us who, either directly or indirectly, have ever had to negotiate their way through the fallout generated by the shambles such an awful…
Continue ReadingThe GOP’s pact with Satan
With total control of all levers of government, it is reasonable to state that it is high tide for the Republican Party as they hold majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress and hold the White House. One thing about high tides, they always eventually recede. I’m curious as to what all the receding…
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