Year: 2011

  • Maybe Buddha was Right

    It’s been 28 years of life and I think I am closer to what I have been looking for than ever. That constant search for whatever more was outside my window has died down.  I find myself looking more within, being more content with what I have rather than what I want. And it is…

  • One Nation under Canada

    I’ll be the first to admit, I did not watch the U.S. Open.  I’m still of the mind that golfers should run after the ball after hitting it, but I digress.  What I took away from the 2011 U.S. Open is the same as most people who heard about it second-hand: NBC omitted “Under God”…

  • “Free Speech” – You Keep Using that Phrase

    Dana Loesch brought Andrew Sullivan’s take on the Wonkette situation to my attention.   In his post, Sullivan said: I feel as queasy about this flexing of Palinite muscle as I do about the original, disgusting, asinine story. In some ways, I see a legitimate come-uppance for a tacky site that published a simply inexcusable…

  • Do As I Say, Not as I Do

    It is always easier to give advice or mandates for others than to actually do it.  I am guilty of such and I am sure that many of us are.  But, when I do it, it does not hit as hard as, say, when the President does it. President Obama’s energy plan includes encouraging Americans…