Greggity

I just have to take a minute to express my gratitude to all of my Republican friends for their outrage and expressions of exasperation and hopelessness. I am truly enjoying your discomfort.
It almost makes the 8 soul-crushing years of the Bush Administration worth while to see you all now feeling shut out of the process. [...]

I have kept quiet about the presidential race all through this year’s election because I not only didn’t want this blog to descend into a political forum of partisan bickering, but also because I didn’t want to jinx my man Barack with my endorsement.
It has been an emotional and exciting week for America and has [...]

Disclaimer:
I have to preface the following comments on this obligatory topic by saying I have the utmost respect for firefighters and police who selflessly gave their lives on 9/11/01 as well as those who put their lives on the line every day in service to their fellow citizens. I also wish to offer my heartfelt [...]

With the Democratic Convention coming up this month I suddenly realized that I’ve left you all hanging with regard to my endorsement.
Well, for any of you who have read my past posts its fairly obvious which candidate I’m going to endorse, but here is some relief for those of you who are feeling a twinge [...]

“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.” – Sigmund Freud
As pretentious as it may be to quote Freud, these particular words have been bouncing around in my head a lot lately.
What really is liberty? Is it an absolute? (In other words, you are either [...]

Wouldn’t you like to make a buck?
Sure you would. Who wouldn’t?
What would you be willing to do for that buck?
Would you overcharge for a service that you’ve already automated and therefore requires no effort on your part. That seems reasonable. After all, you put the mechanisms in place for the process to be automated.
What about [...]

The last time I mentioned the house situation and jinxed the deal, so I won’t be commenting on that until early July.
I’ve finally decided to weigh in on the immigration debate however. If you want to call it that…because this is where I stand: Both sides are right.
I know, that sucks. Greggity is teetering on [...]

Hooray! Bush has been castrated! The rubber stamp congress is now the lame duck congress. My faith in democracy has been restored!
Like I predicted however, all of my candidates still lost.
Now on to other business…let’s give the Democrats hell! That’s right, although the Republicans shut out their colleagues on the other side of the isle [...]

On my way to the polls this morning Oliver asked to hear the “Big Bad Wolf Song,” which in Ollie language means the classic Corrosion of Conformity song “Vote with a Bullet.”
He likes that song for the same reasons I did when I saw C.O.C. some 15 years ago…the huge guitar, bass and kick drum [...]

I get irritated and sometimes a little angry when I hear all these people who have recently started saying things like “I supported the war at first, but now I think it was a mistake.”
Well, welcome to reality. I’ve been a little reluctant to say “I told you so” because I expect people to get [...]

Okay, I am man enough to admit when I am wrong…unlike our emperor. I have made several statements this past winter predicting that we would be embroiled in a bloody war with Iran by April 1.
Obviously, I was wrong…if you don’t count their support of the Iraqi insurgency, of course…oh yeah, and the countless acts [...]

I was recently asked the following questions regarding the Patriot Act and my thoughts on our right to assemble peacefully, which gave me an opportunity to get on my soapbox and rant. I love an opportunity to give my opinion. Here is the question:
I have found the old Patriot Act online. I don’t speak legalese, [...]