As it turns out, writing is a more common passion than I thought. Yes, there are those whose living depends upon their ability to express themselves in words and to create something from nothing by painting life portraits on blank pages via written language. Seeking to earn a living by such means is an honorable…
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Late autumn values inventory
“…one thing we can all agree on are the common values that are neither Republican nor Democrat, neither liberal nor conservative, neither wealthy nor destitute, neither religious nor agnostic. These are the values that are American and, as it turns out, basic to being human.”
Continue ReadingPreserving 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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Ah, September! Football Time in Oklahoma has been ushered in with a welcomed decline in the daily high temperature and the primary election runoff is now in the rear view mirror! The changing of the seasons has brought us a clear picture of who is running against whom for what office as we are now…
Continue ReadingUntainting the term “career politician”
It is an even numbered year and campaign season is in full swing along this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Although this particular corridor of the Mother Road may be a microcosm of the rest of the USA, the shade of red it sports makes for a louder than average echo canyon…
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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 ReadingServing notice on the cult of personality devotees
Celebrities and their adoring fans have a unique relationship. Whatever appeal a celebrity exudes often attracts a following drawn to their characteristics and traits with which fans identify or a professional record or personal history that resonates or perhaps even defines the fan’s own. Professional or financial success, be it actual or perceived, can be…
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 ReadingTen years without Carlin: Oh George, how we miss thee!
I am forever grateful to live in such an interesting time and place such as in the middle of the United States in 2018. The more things that focus the attention of both brilliant less gifted minds weighing in on daily happenings in America and the World, my calling as a chronicler of the events…
Continue ReadingOverturning the New Deal
Long game strategies, when employed with simplicity, specificity and devout dedication, are the most effective way to cause change lasting for decades. When the Labor Movement and others seeking to safeguard the rank-and-file worker and common citizen from economic calamity gained a friend in the White House, many of their ideas and demands found their…
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