Slippery Slopes
Today I received an email forward with which I disagreed from a friend. I am one of those people who have good friends who fall on both the far right and the far left of the political spectrum. As a moderate, while I respect my friends on both sides of the spectrum and often am better informed after exposure to their perspectives of the issues, I find myself somewhere in the middle of their ideologies.
The email was in support of the Arizona Immigration law and began with the statement “I’m a legal American citizen and I must show my ID when…”, followed by a list of times and places when legal citizens must show their IDs to argue that the immigration law is not prejudicial. I’m going to ignore the fact that most of them are irrelevant comparisons to being legally bound to carry papers at all time to avoid jail. (In the examples listed, the ID is being shown not to stay out of jail, but to receive benefits or privileges, like insurance or a driver’s license.) Instead, I’d like to focus on the law itself.
Read more...It Only Ends Once
[SPOILER ALERT: This post discusses the LOST series finale.]
Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
So I’ve been thinking a lot since Sunday, as has every LOST fan on earth I would imagine. So much to digest after the finale! Since writing is the way I process the best, I’m writing down my thoughts about LOST, including questions, answers, and reflections. Am I disappointed? Yes. Am I satisfied? Yes. Somehow, with all that I expected it to be that it wasn’t, and all that I couldn’t imagine that it would be that it was, I am both satisfied and disappointed with the finale. There were so many questions that I knew couldn’t be answered in two and a half hours, and yet the final perspective was so fulfilling that I am able to get past the unanswered questions.
Read more...The Advertising Tax Hurts Affiliates
Many of you know that I have a small business publishing websites. Here in Virginia, small businesses like mine have been threatened by an “affiliate nexus tax”. The Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that in order for a state to require a company to collect and pay sales tax, they had to have a physical [...]
Read more...Is Atlas Shrugging?
The city government of that conservative, anti-tax community [Colorado Springs] had a huge hole carved in its budget… When the city proposed tripling property taxes to make up the shortfall, the indignant citizenry said: No way. As a result, the city is cutting back on virtually all public spending. “Quite clearly, our appetite for government services now exceeds our willingness—indeed, our ability—to pay…”
Read more...To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate
Now that I have your attention, I will clarify that I’m specifically referring to the H1N1 vaccination, not all vaccinations. In keeping with the fact that I am a moderate (I actually fall at the intersection where the Left/Right axis intersects with the Authoritarian/Libertarian axis on the Political Spectrum Quiz – it says that I [...]
Read more...Something To Make You Smile
Thanks to Deanna for sharing on FB.
Read more...A Story in Contrasts
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This week, I posted a link to this article on my Facebook page, thinking that it was refreshing to finally see someone (a prominent German fashion magazine even) rejecting the distorted image of unhealthy, underweight woman as models. I thought maybe the tide was turning, but alas, it is not. Today on Yahoo news I [...]
Read more...I Can’t Imagine Who Would Want To See Their Baby on a Dinner Plate
But Martha Stewart apparently thinks there is a market for babies dressed up to look like dinner. I would make this a full blog post, but honestly I can’t think of anything to say about this creepy costume.
Read more...Do What You Enjoy
I’ve been interviewed a few times by reporters interested in how people start entrepreneurial businesses, and there is one thing I always share: Don’t look for a business ideas that have earning potential, take something that you love or in which you are interested and figure out how to make it a business. Is there [...]
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