Someone might want to hide the candy and ice cream. I’m in binge mode right now, which is not a good state for me to be in. Why am I so candy-cidal right now? The worst has been confirmed; they are not renewing my favorite television show, Sanctuary. After four years of fascinating stories of…
Category: Point of View
These are my posts where I give an opinion about something, take a stand one way or another, give praise and also give criticism.
Gay marriage endorsement good, but Obama needs a plan to back it up
It all started with a slip in the tongue from the vice president saying he thinks gay people should be allowed to marry. Now President Obama is on the airwaves saying that he also believes marriage should not be defined only as a heterosexual union, and the media is eating it up like it’s the…
First rule of small-town politics: Don’t enrage the townspeople!
My first time reporting job was with my hometown newspaper, the Chino Valley Review. During that time, I covered numerous town council meetings, and some of them proved to be contentious. Some of the issues were serious, while some were just plain nutty. The latest brouhaha in my hometown would qualify as seriously nutty, and…
Boobs get their nipples in a twist over cleavage
The human body. It comes in all shapes and sizes, although some shapes tend to get people more hot and bothered than others. I don’t mean the hot and bothered you’re thinking of. I’m talking about the prudes that wig out if someone shows skin in just the wrong place. The wigs then catch fire…
Shooting holes in a doctor’s anti-gun argument
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is one that has caused more philosophical, political and occasionally physical fights than almost any other in one of this country’s founding documents, save the First Amendment. Whether or not citizens should be toting guns is an argument that really gets heated, as those who don’t have…
Do you, before the eyes of God, take this sturgeon to be your fishwife?
With the warm weather in Wisconsin, the part of the state I live in undergoes an annual ritual that I can honestly say I hadn’t seen before I moved here. There is a type of fish called a sturgeon that travels to Shawano in the springtime for spawning purposes, and it brings people from all…
Down in the country – a yarn about tire swings and walking
I’ve written about small-town life previously, and told you why I enjoy it so much. Today I got to see some more examples of how life in small towns differs to greatly from life in the big city. Today, the return of the warmer days after several days of cold and rain prompted me to…
Warm weather for Wisconsin welcome
When I first moved to Wisconsin, folks both here and back home thought I was completely insane, especially since I had arrived in the dead of winter. After all, why would any rational person want to leave the “warmth” of Arizona and move to a place where they have lots of snow and the temperature…
I don’t care who’s on birth control… Why should my boss?
This could be a first for me. I’ve written about some odd things in my time—a tribal legislature wanting to buy themselves gold rings while most of people live in poverty, a county supervisor allowing volunteer workers to go hog wild with a credit card and spend $50 or more a pop on meals—but I…
When faith falls prey to politics, it’s time to take a step back
Faith is something that most people have, whether in an almighty God or in some other deity. In America, it has been a difficult balancing act for centuries to enjoy one’s own faith without letting it get in the way of others. I recently came across a story from McClatchy Newspapers about how religion and…
No animals were killed in writing this blog post
One of my Facebook friends posted a clipping from a newspaper that I just had to laugh at. I stopped laughing when I realized that the person who put this in genuinely believed it to be true. “To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you. You ought to go to the…
Apology should be sincere, not smarmy, to be accepted
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the local Catholic school getting in a bit of hot water because it benched a young seventh-grade girl from playing basketball for speaking a few words in her traditional Menominee tongue. Keep in mind this was not a full dialogue, and the words she spoke could not be…
Rural Roots and American Rainbows 