As I proclaim on a regular basis I consider myself beholden to no political party, no ideology. However, had I been born in colonial times I might have joined those states rights agrarians that started the party known as the Democrat-Republicans, with Thomas Jefferson as their figurehead leader. The reason for this affinity is embedded [...]
I was working out at the YMCA the other day when I overheard a proposal for “fixing” the economy that did not take into account what has been happening since the seventies (something virtually all the graphs provided on The Middle Class Forum addresses). I pointed out this problem and delivered my usual schtick about [...]
As an empiricist I am not likely to ever call myself a conservative or liberal, since that implies a fixed belief or dogma, and I consider my beliefs to be theories open to the testing of experiences. Yet I have another, almost opposite, frustration with political ideologies. As fixed as they may be at any [...]
My car is easy to recognize in this rural town. I bought my Toyota Echo in 2000, the first year for this model. I selected this car because it had the best gas mileage of any make and model at the time; I get 43 mpg in the summer, 40 mpg in the winter. They [...]
