Look, it’s pretty simple.
It is certainly not Congress that keeps this nation together and rolling… no, not the President. No figureheads or leaders can make the machine run – that is the responsibility of every person. There are some who believe that this nation is held together by the police, but there are simply not enough of them [...]
The Book of a Google Faces
It’s been a long stretch of Truckin’ with Ron posts, so I thought I’d ramble a bit on the uses and abuses of ye olde Facebook. Recently, a friend of mine (who is an excellent blogger) “quit” Facebook. I say “quit” because, as she pointed out, Facebook saves ALL of your information (contact and “about me”, pictures, [...]
No More Frontiers, No More Discovery
I’ve been researching the history of my hometown and county: Fairfield, Iowa in Jefferson County. I know it’s a myth, the idea of pioneers and settlers “discovering” the land, when people have been living here since 10,000 BCE. And, of course, what happened to the Native Americans was freaking tragic. But the settlers themselves didn’t really think about [...]
That’s the Idea!
The same dynamics at play in this video work on almost every scale, in practically every aspect of life. Our failings come from stopping too soon, from rejecting those around us, from waiting for better circumstances… when all we really need to do is dance. It’s a good lesson for me, in any event.
Strange Suggestions: Questionable Content
Subject to Suggest to Strangely: the webcomic Questionable Content Things I Like: Solid artwork, writing, and consistency of humor. Things I Don’t Like: Not enough character diversity (the beliefs and motivation seems the same for everyone), plot slower that molasses in January. Strange Suggestion: Focus Drift. Right now the comic is focused almost exclusively on relatively new characters, having the main [...]
In Praise of America.
I love America. It may not seem like it at first glance, (and certainly not after reading some of the things I’ve had to say about our government) but it’s true. Moreover, I believe that America has been a net profit of good for the world. Of course I’m not ruling out or glossing over [...]
Rejected: Minimal Amount
In the process of writing my second book, some articles/chapters don’t make the cut. I figured I’d post these rough first-drafts here instead of just throwing them away. This is the first time I’m typing this on a computer – up until now, this was handwritten. Read more about my second book here, and you [...]
