Message to Kansas electors

This is something I would normally never do, but nothing about this election has been normal. Just since being elected Mr. Trump has committed acts that should disqualify him from holding office, e.g. appointing known (and seemingly proud) white nationalists, having his children sit-in on calls with heads of state, using his new position to …

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Gracie, November 2001 – February 28, 2015

Gracie was my best girl. It seems like only yesterday she was a puppy hopping her way through snow almost as deep than she was tall. It was our first adventure outside.  She followed me all the way to the mailbox and back, hopping all the way. She had a beautiful coat with two little …

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Letter to my Congressional Representatives

The Honorable Lynn Jenkins 1027 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-1605 The Honorable Jerry Moran Russell Senate Office Building Room 361A Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Representative: I am writing you as your constituent in order to urge you to form a committee …

Lunatic Republicans

I wish someone could explain to me how any sane person can vote for the current crop of Republicans. It seems like more often than not, they are theocratic loons who have no problem legislating against people's bodily autonomy all the while railing against Big Government. I hope I live to see the day when …

SOPA/PIPA

I recently sent emails to my House and Senate representatives regarding these horrible pieces of legislation. I thought I would post the contents here for posterity. Subject: Please oppose the PROTECT IP Act and SOPA I urge you to reject the Internet Blacklist Bills (S.968 and H.R.3261). I am deeply concerned by the danger these …

Mutual Respect

A comment from Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's office during the recent flap over a Twitter post by a high school student has me rankled. According to Brownback spokesperson, Sherriene Jones-Sontag, it takes mutual respect to have a constructive dialog. While that is all well and good, the thing with respect is it is earned not …

LG Optimus U Rooting Disappointment

I successfully temporarily rooted my phone (yay) using z4root, but discovered the rooted environment used over 20 MB of storage (boo). While having a rooted phone would be nice, it's not worth giving up that much on a device that only has 140 MB of user accessible storage. Other than this minor disappointment, I am …

Bible Study

I am going to end my sporadic attempts at reading the Bible. I can't seem to make it through the first few chapters of Genesis before realizing I just don't care about this particular piece of poorly written fiction. There are so many more interesting and relevant books on my reading list to spend time …

Thoughts on AMC’s “The Walking Dead”

I finally watched the final two episodes of "The Walking Dead". I enjoyed season 1, but the final minutes of episode six seemed overly fatalistic. Sure, Dr. Jennings had plenty of reasons to be fatalistic. Offing your zombie wife and spending months underground without human contact in a futile attempt to save the entire human …