As a political independent I have said for many years the worst aspect of our political system is the polarization of our political bases. While Democrats have participated in that process it is clear, and was clear to me when Trump was elected, that Republicans have finally broke the steering wheel and drifted to the […]

The $15 minimum wage is an issue that I feel deserves a quick jot down in the blog to save my two cents for future posterity. It’s a divisive issue and like a lot of things, I feel though a lot of people are looking at the situation incorrectly. The Market and Wages I think […]

I want my blog to capture my point of view on critical topics at least once in a while. Writing is a keepsake of the fact that I exist – that I am not errant thoughts in a void. Now that I have kids I feel like this is a more valuable thing to do […]

The purpose of my website is to catalogue my points of view, mostly for my own sake but also for my children who may someday look back at what I write and change their own points of view. Politics has frankly stressed me out in recent years. I have always felt distant from popular opinion […]

So as you all likely know, I’ve not been a big Trump fan. Even though I have been firmly against Progressives pretty much my entire life, I was a staunch supporter of Bernie Sanders in the last election seeing him as one of the fewer genuine candidates who attempted to run. To me, a genuine […]

I recently went on a little tirade on Facebook regarding the NRA’s response, or lack thereof, to the Philando Castile murder. Philando was a black American with to my knowledge a spotless criminal record who was killed at a traffic stop after announcing to the officer that he had a valid permit weapon. There is […]

For those of you who don’t know, I have for most of my adult life been a libertarian or as some might say classically liberal – at least in the sense that my point of view is that the best form of government for people in general is one that has limited control over the […]

Alright well I don’t actually blog about random things as much anymore, partly because I’m CONSTANTLY typing up and posting exercise logs and trying to stay active enough in real life to NOT have the time. Today is a day off though and despite a lazy morning I got shopping and working out in and […]

Show and tell time! Ok so I desperately need to post something on my homepage about something besides the usual exercise log, so tonight I’m going to recap a fun time I had toy shopping. The object of my shopping today was to get toys for a Toys for Tots charity thingy, which in and […]