It is very easy for caring and compassionate individuals to lose themselves in the affairs of people and things they love. Their concern is often not limited to close loved ones, businesses and hobbies. Volunteering for and giving of self for the betterment of nation, state, community, church, service organization or involvement in any group…
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America’s bane of binary choice
Presidential election years have always been a time of a months-long media circus featuring all manner of campaign soundbytes of pandering, insults and over-the-top hyperbolic rhetoric in candidate ads, stump speeches, caucuses and conventions. Despite its pitfalls and occasional shortcomings, the thing that has kept America electing its leaders via democratic process from its beginning…
Continue ReadingMessaging misery of miserable messengers
Marketing and sales are two endeavors which are eternally intertwined. Each requires the ability to effectively communicate and both rely on amicable relations with clientele to achieve a desired purpose, that being the sale of a product whether it be a tangible item, a service or an idea contained in either a tacit or actual…
Continue ReadingRetribution coming home to roost
Eight years ago this week a piece was published on this blog containing a detailed analysis of the candidate who had emerged as the GOP frontrunner for the 2016 Presidential Election. Regular readers may remember the August 2015 posting entitled The appeal of a narcissist. Probably the most pertinent and prophetic statement contained therein was…
Continue ReadingConservatism’s peak of power and influence
We live in a time that is definitely unlike any other. It was not all that long ago that ideas that have or are becoming policy in so many places were dismissed by most as being fringe at best and outright whackjob crazy at worst. In the late 1970’s, certain advisors serving as the brain…
Continue ReadingNo recreational MJ for the Sooner State
Opportunities for radical change in the fundamental way a state does business with its citizens and how ordinary people relate to each other occur rarely. It is so very disappointing when such an opportunity is allowed to slip by, especially in light of the knowledge that such a chance to affect change in a major…
Continue ReadingA national tale of dereliction
When we gaze into the collective mirror to see who we are as a people and to admire the reflection representative of our tribe, whatever it may be, we abhor the sight of imperfection. We so often prefer to see only what we want to see and when we do notice the presence of blemishes…
Continue ReadingThoughts on the tiny red ripple
Some of you may have heard there was a Midterm Election in America last Tuesday. As of Saturday evening, the Democrats have maintained their control of the U.S. Senate and there remain a handful of U.S. House races the votes of which are still being counted. Although due to those uncalled races in which nothing…
Continue ReadingThe long road back to the middle
Chief among the pitfalls and problems that beset the politics of fear and grievance is the physical fatigue and mental exhaustion the perpetuation of it generates. The level of outrage required to keep the members of a core political base frightened and angry consumes a great deal of energy especially since it must be manufactured…
Continue ReadingOn our way to another Oklahoma City
Oklahoma, the home state of Yours Truly, is endowed with an embarrassment of riches like none other in the Union. It is a place of natural beauty and mineral resources inhabited by people with a can-do industrious spirit who represent a very colorful tapestry of multiple cultures, lifestyles and faiths. As a hub of trade,…
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