What you see depends on what you’re looking for.

I have noticed in my life that when things are going good, I want to open up, spread out, and do more. I want to expand. When things are not so good I have more of an urge to contract. When you expand, you don’t feel so guarded. You stand …

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop

An idiot treats only the symptom. A wise man treats the cause. A wiser man yet, treats both. Every problem has a cause and a symptom. You can gage the progression and awareness of any given society by how much attention it puts on treating each one.
Back in the …

“My God! Are we sure he was a liberal?”
“Pretty sure. They pulled him from a Volvo.” ~Doonesbury

I remember when my son Brady was born, he had these enormously big hands for a baby. When he tried to stick his fist into his mouth like babies do, he would often poke himself in the eye with one of his long clumsy fingers. But after a few weeks, …

From Moveon.org
Top 5 Problems with the Tax Deal
Problem #1: The deal is a stealth attack on Social Security.
The deal will lower the payroll tax–the tax that funds the Social Security trust. This is a trap for Democrats. Republicans have been coming after Social Security for years and this cut is …

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, ‘So far so good!’

We should all be ashamed to live in a country where somebody is asked to die for their fellow countrymen but if you’re gay, keep it to yourself. Every American should be outraged! Don’t we understand that as long as we force good decent people to be second class citizens, …

In my forty something years of driving, I’ve gotten a lot of traffic tickets, mostly for speeding. In my twenties and thirties I averaged about one a year. These days I get one every 3-5 years. And of all of those traffic tickets I’ve received over the years, I can …