It’s gotten too complicated. “What has?” you ask. Everything! Legislation, rules, requirements, regulations, taxes, disclaimers, ingredients, instructions, assembly, guidelines, labels, games, parameters, codes, wills and codicils. We have over- emphasized, protected, contained, explained, briefed, covered, controlled, programmed, denied and lied about…. legislation, rules, requirements, regulations, taxes, disclaimers, ingredients, instructions, assembly, guidelines, labels, games, parameters, codes,…
Author: gary1164
I'm an advertising executive and former actor/producer
Our Greatest Adventure
Life is a struggle for all living beings, all the time. As humans, there isn’t a day that passes that we don’t feel the struggle of being alive, and aware of our aliveness. As humans, this is our gift and our curse. Some days the struggle is less, when we get to bask for a…
Capitol Punishment
We’ve been through a lot lately, haven’t we? Unfortunately, it has all been the inevitable result of having taken our eyes off the community ball for decades. Once we started dismantling the purpose of representative democracy rather than improving it, the functions of government and networks of community support began to unravel. And that’s when mistrust becomes so high that conspiracy theories run rampant and lies appear as plausible as truth. Without a central…
Oh, We Got Trouble!
Democrats of River City! Heed this warning before it’s too late! Look for the tell-tale signs of corruption! Corruption with a capital “C” and that rhymes with “T” and it stands for Trump! Donald J Trump has lost the 2020 election and ultimately it will be recorded as one of the most accurately counted in…
“In My Life” by Chris Kroeger
I was born into a love for The Beatles through my father’s love for the band. But over the years as I’ve come to refine my taste in music, I can proudly say that my love for this band isn’t just a hand me down from my dad. The beauty of the progression, the timelessness of songs, the…
With A Little Help From My Friends
We are sick. America is sick. Not just fanatical extremists, but all of us. Every nook and cranny of our socio-political universe has been infected with the coronavirus to rationality; an invasion of cells that replicate within our innate decency and suffocate the ability to breathe reason. Strong words? Not strong enough. We have become…
Speak No Evil
We have a president who calls half of the country “evil.” He calls Democrats evil because they don’t like him. They were predisposed not to vote for him because he isn’t a Democrat, but that should not come as shocking news. Republicans don’t vote for many Democrats, either, right? But this president is brand new…
I’ll take “Patriotism” for the win, please
Let’s be very clear. What President Trump calls for, particularly with respect to our flag and standing during the National Anthem, is not “patriotism” but “nationalism.” Both are concerned with individual relationships towards nations, but nationalism is defined as our interest in the unification of a nation based on cultural and linguistic equanimity. Patriotism is…
Pro Rights
There is a subject that holds the attention of our political divide where politicians swivel around its substantive reality: the Right to Choose versus Pro-Life. I will begin by being clear: NO one is pro-abortion. No “Right to Choose” advocate is saying that continuiing an unplanned pregnancy should never be an option. My personal opinion…
Though Love and Life make tearful intercession…
Theologian, A H Strong, defined the human will as “the soul’s power to choose between motives and to direct its subsequent activity according to the motive thus chosen.” No better description of service could be written. That reflection strengthens moral purpose; the convergence of ideas and motives reveal what kind of a servant we are.…