Yesterday, on the Ides of March, was the Libertarian Party convention for the state of Tennessee, held in Murfreesboro. Former New Mexico Governor and 2012 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, Gary Johnson, was the keynote speaker. Several years ago, Gary Johnson started a one-man business as a handy man for hire, then grew it into…
The 2016 presidential campaign is ratcheting into gear, and already I’m questioning whether my stomach can handle the vitriol. Depending on who I’m talking to, I could be a baby-killing, communist feminazi, or a right-wing Neanderthal nut job; although, according to both of those viewpoints, I’m most likely a lazy, confused, non-voting slacker who, by…
Today is the American federal holiday known as President’s Day. While the only real way in which most of us will be affected is that our garbage cans won’t be picked up and will have to sit overnight again, this holiday brought a landmark event for many of us who have taken on the personal…
cunt |kənt| noun vulgar slang; a woman’s genitals. • offensive; a woman. ORIGIN Middle English : of Germanic origin; related to Norwegian and Swedish dialect kunta, and Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, and Danish dialect kunte. If you ask any woman what the most offensive word someone can call her is, nine times out of ten…
Benefits earned in an employment contract are denied based on ‘misbehavior’ by war-fighters whose fulfilled delivery on their end of the bargain leaves them with medical problems that will haunt them the rest of their lives, and the United Stated government is playing deceitful and corrupt games to find excuses for not fulfilling their end…
redemption |riˈdemp sh ən| the action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt. • archaic the action of buying one’s freedom. A little over seventeen years ago, I walked out of Bayview Correctional Facility in Chelsea, Manhattan, a free woman. It’s hard to believe it’s been seventeen…
In the late 70′s and early 80′s, there were two states a child could exist in. At school and outside. In summer, the only activities children engaged in indoors were eating, sleeping and using the bathroom and our parents encouraged us to do those things outside whenever possible. Back then, on any given summer morning…
“The Hall of Fame is for baseball people. Heaven is for good people.” ~ Journeyman outfielder Jim Dwyer, 1989 An annual rite of winter is upon us and it has once again stirred up controversy, all manmade. Some people know it as the announcement of the latest players to make it to baseball’s Hall of…
For some, coping with the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can seem much like trying to have some semblance of a life while existing in the bowels of Hell. It is this struggle that has forced me and many I know to make many adjustments to re-enter a “normal” civilian life. Crowded…
As a child, like most, I loved Christmas and presents. Even though my mom was poor she always went above and beyond. I remember one year she put a pair of Sasson jeans on lay-away for what seemed like months. When I finally got them I was so happy – but I immediately tore them…
In a recent development in the ongoing debate regarding the mass collection of online data by the NSA, the heads of several major tech companies have written an open letter to the president and congress, urging the U.S. government to, “take the lead and make reforms that ensure that government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted…
Historically marriage has been a social contract between two people under the guidance of their religious institution. If they chose to live their lives together and make their promises to one another through the avenue of religious ceremony they were considered “married.” The legal aspect of marriage is a modern invention created so that governments can…
by Cynthia Cone . I’m married, thirteen and a half years to be exact. Growing up, I never thought much about marriage. My parents separated before I was three and even my grandmother, the woman who helped raise me, was a divorcee. There were no married couples in my immediate family. Both my aunts were…
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