Politics
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Why I am Voting for Hillary Clinton
WARNING: This is long, and rambling, and unapologetically political. Do you remember the SyFy show Warehouse 13? I have heard it became a really good show, and hey, Felicia Day was even in it for a few seasons. But I could not bring myself to watch it. I wanted to watch it. I wanted to love it. It seemed made for me/us – and then I watched the pilot. The two main characters are introduced thusly – we have a female FBI agent who has worked all of her life to become an agent. She has focused her life on her job and become the best. And no one likes…
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Should Everyone Carry a Gun?
A few years ago, I was visiting my 80+ year old grandfather when he decided one of the trees in his back yard needed to come down. For safety’s sake, he decided to cut off some of the larger branches before he actually cut the whole tree down. To do this, he used a pole-saw. What is a pole-saw you ask? It is a chainsaw on a stick. That’s right, a chainsaw on the end of a 6’ (or longer) stick. In no world is this a safe tool for an 80+ year old man to be using. But I knew it would be even less safe for me to…
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I am a Pragmatist
This past Tuesday, my favorite hockey player, and arguably the best goalie to ever play the game, Martin Brodeur, had his number retired by the New Jersey Devils. He is pretty much guaranteed a spot in the NHL Hall of Fame. But even though he is my favorite hockey player, I doubt very much I would actually like Brodeur if I ever met him. The man had an affair with his wife’s sister, while she was living with them because she had come to help his wife with their two young sons. This is not exactly an endearing quality. And yet, if I were picking an all time fantasy hockey…
