The Purpose Of Life Is A Life Of Purpose.

Having been absent and not able to post as often as I like, I feel like the wayward child returing home for this Thanksgiving message. For me there are few things that are so utterly expressive and filled with so many of the totems of what it is the be an American as there are in the Thanksgiving celebration. To so many people, no matter where they are, Thanksgiving Day is a joyous family festival when we gather with friends and family and take a moment to just “BE” with in the love of those in our lives and those we too seldom. Thanksgiving's purpose has evolved countless times since the Pilgrims mythic celebration and other early harvest festivals, and yet no matter the evolving meanings or patriotic intentions or global-societal distractions or emphasis on football games or “the day-after” shopping stimuli, on Thanksgiving, we manage to continue to cull a singular, cohesive narrative that is forever emotionally electroplated to the holiday. One of its unassailable qualities; the...

There is a reason a horse has never been President. You can't run a country on horse sense. In keeping with the theme of this piece, I will try and keep this little rambling in quasi-regular guy American Speak, so that the hate mail that normally accompanies these postings can be focused on the true points and not the ones that those sub-geniuses invent in their Budweiser soaked brains. OK, so think back. Do you remember WAY BACK WHEN, when the Red Neck now squatting in the White House, first became a blip on the national radar? Remember when everyone in the known universe thought that George W. Bush might be too dumb to be The President of the United States? Wha Hapin!? Has that much time passed that the questions about Bush's intellectual aptitude faded into the recesses of our collective minds? Remember right after 9/11, when seemingly every man, woman and child in the nation, liek they all took some kind’a STUPID DRUG, actually thought that his intuitive rather than critica...

I know I have been absent for a few months (production has been hell)...BUT...I read this today at lunch and..well..it needs to be mass distributed to someone other than the Rolling Stoner Crowd who don't vote anyway. I challenge you to NOT be pissed about this. if you are PLEASE forward it to your congreeman (the links as always are at the bottom of this article) and newspaper editor and NPR commentator and ask them why this is NOT being invvestigated. Was the 2004 Election Stolen? By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rolling Stone - Thursday 01 June 2006 Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. The complete article, with Web-only citations, follows. For more, see exclusive documents, sources, charts and commentary. Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming v...