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Streaming Choice: How Far Will It Go?

May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 Ronald Tucker

I think that I have less streaming TV content than the average American, yet vastly more than I had a year ago. I have noticed that with my expanded selection of streamed on demand content, I have a harder time finding something that engages me more than a few minutes or one episode. I find much […]

Are The Sins of The Father Visited Upon The Sons: and is it fair?

May 7, 2022May 27, 2023 Cheyenne Tucker

The generalized quote about the sins of the father being laid upon their sons is most closely and nearly related to a quote in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. “The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” However very similar sentiments appear in the Christian Bible from which the Merchant of Venice […]

The Origin of Old Souls

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 Ronald Tucker

One often hears the phrase ‘old soul’ used to describe a younger person with seeming wisdom and emotional maturity beyond their years. New Agers and mystical belief inclined folks hint that maybe said young person is a reincarnation of someone older, a reincarnation in which the wisdom of a well lived life is somehow mystically […]

Republicans and Democrats are both right…and wrong on deficit.

October 18, 2021May 27, 2023 Ronald Tucker

I very much appreciate the concept of reducing the national debt. However, cutting taxes but not spending does not reduce the national debt anymore than reducing your credit card burden by just ceasing to pay the bill reduces your debt. Similarly getting new credit cards or higher credit limits does not reduce your debt. Unfortunately […]

US Federalism Isn’t Perfect

October 14, 2021May 27, 2023 Ronald Tucker

This whole federation of semi independent states concept, best illustrated originally by the United States is just one way to evolve a world with some seeming common purpose and absent open warfare. It is a clever one that doesn’t claim to cure all social ills or create mutual love of all humanity. Our ‘Founders’ didn’t […]

Make America America Again

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Cheyenne Tucker

This ‘make America great again’ schtick, is at best pabulum for folks who value ego over reality. Being called great should never be a goal and definitely never a national policy. It is the stuff of promoters and conmen and childish egoist or sociopathic dictators. We are great when we are united, just, keep our […]

The Deal With The Devil

January 7, 2020September 1, 2020 Arnold Rutcek

This is a highly partisan opinion piece and as such is not subject to civil debate but is considered well argued enough to be posted. Despite having supposedly been the author of a book entitled, ‘The Art of the Deal’, Donald Trump does not understand how deals work, does not understand why deals work, does […]

Benjamin Franklin and arguing on the internet

December 1, 2019December 2, 2019 Cheyenne Tucker

Arguing on the Internet is the worst. No one ever changes their mind. No one ever really learns anything new. Internet arguers start their arguments aggressive with clichés, catch phrases, slogans and usually a not too subtle insult of anyone that disagrees with them. We’ve probably all done it. We may open with a snarky […]

A Socratic Questioning Dialogue on The Minimum Wage

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 Ronald Tucker

Here is an example of a Socratic Questioning Dialogue. It is incomplete because the two participants, one of whom was in fact me, had to return to work but I think that it is a valid, albeit long winded, civil discussion that began to probe the reasons that advocates of a minimum wage have for so […]

The Divvy Up

November 25, 2019November 30, 2019 Ronald Tucker

When I was a kid in rural North Carolina in the 60s we had a , so to speak, summer gang of boys that hung together out of boredom. The size varied from 5 to 10 but 5 was usually the minimum, the ‘quorum’ number if you will, before we did ‘the divvy up’. The […]

Streaming Choice: How Far Will It Go?

Are The Sins of The Father Visited Upon The Sons: and is it fair?

The Origin of Old Souls

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