Last night at a campaign rally not more than 25miles from me, Trump said this: “You know, they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist,” Trump said at a campaign event in Houston, where he rallied voters to support Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) in November’s Read more…
I read an article recently that talked about how in many ways societies misogyny extends to more than just women. It focused on political parties, equating the Democrats to feminine characteristics and Republicans to masculine characteristics. The idea being that Republicans get away with certain behaviors because they are the Read more…
I came across this the other day: Then later, I also came across this article (and link to study) which found that all the “dark” personality traits are all linked back to: In other words, all dark traits can be traced back to the general tendency of placing one’s own goals Read more…
*Texas Readers! Next Tuesday, Oct. 9th is the deadline to register to vote in November’s election. If you’re not, get registered!* Florida held their primary election not long ago. The number of people who voted early was almost as high as the total number of people who voted in the Read more…
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. I’ve never understood anti-immigrant sentiment. Why do so many people fear and hate immigrants? I really don’t get it. I was reading an article that talked about ICE and it described Read more…
You can say a lot of things about the FBI’s investigation into election meddling or Robert Mueller’s investigation. But to just accept outright that Russia did nothing simply because Vladimir Putin says so, is not one of them. The fact that Trump did exactly that, in a televised press conference, Read more…
I came across two stories today that got me thinking. The first, is about a minor local race in Montgomery County near DC, where a former Democrat is staging a third-party challenge against the Democrat candidate. The main story though, is Joe Crowley has apparently decided to run as a Read more…
I’ve been pretty silent here lately. Some of that is due to business elsewhere. Some of that is a burnout with engaging in political matters via the Internet. This isn’t a political blog per say but I did like to ruminate on things from time to time. Well, the last few Read more…
How do you decide if you like something? Do you just roll with whatever subjective feeling you have at the time (ie first impression) or do you think about your experience later and analyze why you should or should not like something? Now that’s a pretty broad question. Objectively I Read more…
So it’s a new year. Yay? Many people have decried 2016 as the worst year ever. For some, the seeming abundance of celebrity deaths set the tone for the year. For others, politics overshadowed everything. And of course, personal experiences always trump (pun intended?) everything else. So was 2016 really Read more…