I'm a returnig student living in Portland,Oregon. Politically interested if not always active. I enjoy Air America and Keith Olbermann, can you guess my political bent?
I enjoy writing, sometimes, and am in the middle of a couple of writing classes required
I have had enough of this election campaig and with all of the divisive behaviour involved.I realize it is still a year out to the official election, but enough is enough. It's been brutal. Joe Biden called Barack Obama "clean", Edwards bloggers dissed the catholic church and Hillary still thinks she did the right thing in a... More..
As I was growing up in southern California, I was the recipient of widely divergent parenting advice. My dad was an eternal optimist who insisted that every cloud had a silver lining, that if you are given lemons you just need to make lemonade, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. My mom, on the other hand, always felt that any silver ... More..
During the middle to late 1960s, television producers on both sides of the Atlantic seemed obsessed with spy stories. In the United States we were treated to "I Spy", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and even the comedic parody "Get Smart". In England the viewers were treated to "The Saint" , "The Prisoner" and another parody, "The... More..
Many argue that tax cuts stimulate the economy because rich people supposedly create jobs. I suppose they do, but they can only hire so many pool cleaners and gardeners. The truth behind tax cuts is that the poor are most likely to spend their tax cuts right away, flushing that money into the economy and actually creating jo... More..
Dick Cheney is a misunderstood individual. If we only could see him in his correct historical context we would be able to better understand him. Anyone who can use the word hogwash in an interview and keep a straight face is a special person. What could come next from this mans mouth, "Codswallop" or "Balderdash"? If you loo... More..
Pain is a debilitating problem. According to the Partners against Pain (PAP) website, "almost half of American households ( 44 million, or 43% ) have at least one family member who suffers from chronic pain...". This was discovered through a national survey of more than 1,000 chronic pain sufferers commissioned by Purdue Pha... More..
Phillip Fears
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