Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Depression and the Social Media Minefield
The advent of social media has opened up the world to a lot of people who can’t afford to travel. It has allowed them to keep in touch with distant friends and family and to re-establish contact with old friends … Continue reading
Asia Resolution: A Blueprint for War
In 1964, an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin between a US naval vessel, the USS Maddox, and a North Vietnamese naval ship led to the creation of the Asia Resolution. This Resolution allowed President Johnson to take military action … Continue reading
“Something Wonderful”
The Centrist Majority has been silent for too long. We’ve allowed both extremes to gain too much power to the point where we are beginning to suffer for it. Lately that has changed. With the uproar over Susan G Komen’s … Continue reading
One alternative to Susan G Komen
Note: I hope that this will be helpful in your search for an alternative. One of my assignments for a college English course was to research a charity and prepare a presentation for that charity. This is the paper justifying the … Continue reading
Anti-Social Media
I am not against social media. I was a frequent visitor to the chat rooms on IRC (internet relay chat) and have been active on Facebook and twitter for several years. I have a linked-in account and have recently joined Google+. … Continue reading
Catching Forty Winks (How to Get to Sleep)
In the past few weeks, I’ve repeated this advice to people on twitter who are having trouble sleeping, or more correctly, falling asleep. Something is interfering with their ability to drift off to dreamland. It could be any number of … Continue reading
Confusing Greed For Capitalism
Lately, both the Department of Justice and the Securities & Exchange Commission have been busy dealing with greedy people who have mistaken illegal activities for permissible ones. During my second semester at community college, one of my Business Law assignments … Continue reading
Looking for more sci-fi?
All future sci-fi posts will be made exclusively to my other blog Random Messages from the Future. It is also a wordpress.com blog (because I like it here). I’ve changed my mind (sue me if you want, you won’t win … Continue reading
I’ve Lost My Mind – Oh No, Wait, There It Is!
How to find lost or mislaid items. Rule number one – DON’T PANIC! Panic clouds the thought processes. Try to stay calm. Take a deep breath, if that helps you calm down. Okay, now that you are calm, ask yourself, … Continue reading
A Few Words About Spam-vertising
In the twenty months that I have blogged, I have learned a great deal about the process of writing. This was my goal in starting the blog. I wanted to become a better writer and I wanted to practice somewhere … Continue reading →