Rantings and Ravings
(Political and
Social Commentary)
Your friendly neighborhood raving lunatic-in-chief.
Please, eat the fruit, don't throw it.
It's the healthier alternative.
Latest
rant: "Hi, I'm Newt Gingrich, Conservative." Wha??
Why I wrote these...
Okay, so every once in a while, I get it in me to respond to
some news article I've read or some event going on
somewhere. Like most Americans, when I get irked about
something, I tend to speak up about it. But jabbering at your
friends and coworkers about issues they may not share your concern about
(wether they agree with your position or not) only goes so
far. So it makes more sense for me to put that energy into
creating something more permenant and better formed. At the
end of 2008 and early into 2009 I was in the process of
redesigning my website. Since that meant writing lots of
articles in a very short period of time, I decided that I might
as well make a place where I could gripe at y'all as well. It
is not my intention to try to put out a regularly scheduled
article but rather to provide a place where I can compose and
publish an article on the topic of the moment whenever the
urge hits me.
Now, I do go on about stuff I like too and this is just
as good a spot for that as any. So not all of what you see
here will be the ravings of a crazed lunatic, unhappy with
everyone and everything, trying to change the world with
nothing more than a poorly assembled argument. (Hey, I'm not a
good debator, but I know what I like and I know what annoys me.)
As you all know, I'm also a gun collector and pretty
enthusiastic about it but you should not assume that this will
be the only topic here. For now, this section falls under
that area of my site. As it grows, it may deserve a
home of its own. But wherever it lives, I won't confine myself
to a single area of discussion. No, I'll post whatever tickles my
fancy. (Now there's a phrase you don't here every day...)
Yes, this set of pages is full of oppinions and my oppinions
are my own. (Aren't yours?) I don't represent anyone or
anything. Some people consider me quite intelligent and
very insightful. Others barely allow me the title of
"sentient being." Largely, I stopped caring what
other people thought about me a long time ago. It was simply
too much effort. I just gotta be me and that means being
oppinionated as all get out when its something that matters to
me.
Am I right all the time? Hardly. If I knew everything and did
everything right all the time, my life would be pretty boring,
wouldn't it? No, I get just as much wrong as you do, maybe
more. My oppinions change over time, just like everyone
else. That's part of learning. (Note that this means that I
may now, in fact, disagree with what I wrote two or three
years ago because I have learned a few things since then.)
When you gain experience, you gain knowledge. When you gain
knowledge, you gain wisdom. Am I a wise person? Some think
so. I think I still have a long ways to go before I would feel
comfortable applying that adjective to myself. The fun part of
learning is figuring out when you've made a mistake before
it's too late to change directions! And yes, I've had my share
of run-ins with brick walls. (And when I'm not paying enough
attention, sometimes even quite litterally.)
So enjoy these posts or don't. Agree with them or don't. "Live
free or don't" (to borrow a quote
from Futurama — please, please
start putting out new episodes.) As long as these comments get you
thinking about your own viewpoints, that's good enough for me.
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