Songwriting has usually come in spurts for me. Well. most things have come in spurts for me. Since I can only really be one thing at a time, there are times that I throw myself into being a songwriter, an actor, a poet, a novelist, a non-fiction author, etc. While …
My parents took me to see “Elvis Lives” at the Van Wezel the other night, and it got me thinking about my own ambitions. The show features three different Elvises representing the three decades of his professional life, from when he was the hip-shaking sensation that could only be filmed …
There is a very good chance that I am one of the world’s worst bloggers. Although this technology has been open to me for years, I have been very reluctant to take advantage of it. Far of it is due to a deep-seated mistrust in giving myself over to technology, …
There are a few reasons I blame myself for America moving into the Trump era. First and foremost, other than a short series of blogs I managed to get into The Huffington Post, I didn’t do much to warn people of the impending possibility of America completely embracing an oligarchy …
This will be my last blog on the 2016 Presidential Election. I’ve tried to break down my thoughts about it throughout the week, but it’s gotten all the attention I care to give it. Next week, I think I’ll be addressing some issues of greater importance. I stand by what …
There is a good chance that this election serves America best by letting us recognize that the system we have claimed as the best democracy on the planet is little more than a sham. The fact that we are given only two choices that most of us despise must make …
On the other side of our coin, in order to keep our status quo intact, we are given the ability to elect our first female president, and while this gives us reason to consider ourselves moderately evolved and enlightened, this particular female is one of the most distrusted and despised …
Although I believe that this presidential election is largely a sham, just for shits and giggles, let’s look at the candidates we have to deal with as we decode which lesser of two evils gets our support. First, let’s look at the one that has by and large gotten the …
Unfortunately, one of the bad seeds we planted upon laying the groundwork for this country of ours was the two party system, a limitation which is more prevalent in this election than any other in American history. Although George Washington and a number of other our more admirable forefathers spoke …
I don’t understand how Donald Trump is so popular with so many Christians. Considering that Jesus said it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for rich men like him to see the Kingdom of Heaven, it doesn’t seem as if they’ll …
