A Thought: On Drones (Not the cool kind)

Where were those now complaining about the president killing children with drones when our previous president was killing them with American children?

Same goes for crying to protect The Bill of Rights when The Patriot Act was being passed.  Seriously, folks, if you're going to trumpet, at least hit the right notes.  There's plenty of real things to get upset about, if you want to, that don't make you sound like a giant hypocrite. Read more!

A Thought: On Voting with Your Conscience

Anyone asking you to vote with your heart or conscience is implicitly asking you not to vote with your mind and is probably terrified that you will.

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A Thought: On Christian Persecution

When I heard someone the other day say, "It's getting to be very hard to be a Christian in this country," it took everything I had not to reply with, "Really? You ought to give being a Muslim or a Jew a shot." Read more!

A Thought: On the Relevance of Appearance

I got an email this morning saying that my application to teach in a particular parish needed to be updated.  I went to the site and learned that the thing I was missing was a current photo.  Because what I look like is as vital as my resume.  I mean, you wouldn't want someone who was the wrong color or was lacking the kind of moral integrity that comes with tattoos or piercing teaching children, would you? Read more!

A Thought: On Those Working Hard Enough to Be Rich

The IRS released the tax statistics for the top 400 earners in 2009 (you can find them here).  These are the folks who keep telling all of us that the reason we're not rich and successful is because we just haven't applied ourselves or worked hard enough.  Anyone with a basic understanding of these graphs can see pretty clearly that all that hard "work" they're doing is bringing in less than 10% of their total income, on average.  The majority of it is from capital gains (things like stocks and speculations).  Most of which are taxed, if at all, at rates lower than your average lower middle class worker's salary, which, in most cases, accounts for more than 95% of annual income. 

Now, don't get me wrong.  Someone made that money somewhere up the line, and I'm not one to punish a smart investment, because re-investing is how economies grow, but when the vast majority of your income has little to do with the actual work you're doing, and is, rather, just a snowball effect, don't try and belittle those who are working just as hard, or harder, than you are and don't have the advantage of millions in the bank doing the work for them.

Also, it's a little scary that so few people realize that there MIGHT be a connection between the fact that the wealthiest people in the country, also known as those with the most political clout, as evidenced by the fact that at least half the election headlines in the last week have reflected not policy, but how much money the candidates are raising for their campaigns, are the ones in control of the economy. 

If you don't know how the speculation or stock markets work, go get someone to explain it to you, then, when they do and you're filled with horror and homicidal rage at the people who are ACTUALLY in control of the shitty economy they keep blaming on the president, who's actually trying to levy all those evil taxes on those collective billions they're making by doing no work and regulate all the practices that are driving up inflation with little to no oversight, keep educating yourself, organize and actually make some change.  Read more!

A Thought: On The Lautner Hypocrisy

The Lautner Hypocrisy: The phenomenon by which women who called men perverts for finding Britney Spears attractive in the infamous school girl video, who raised hell when Demi Moore stripped in Striptease or ever made someone feel guilty for buying Playboy for something besides the articles fail to see the irony in unashamedly reading 50 Shades or lining up around the block to see a shirtless, oiled-up 17-year-old kid.

You've lost the high ground, ladies.  Embrace it.  It's not so bad down here with the rest of us. Read more!