: About Me

Born in D.C., raised in California, I have spent the last 30 years here in the mid-west, the crossroads of the U.S., or the black hole of the U.S., depending upon your orientation.

I love scuba diving into my mind, and seeing what massive amounts of frustration and anxiety can produce in relation to creativity; I aspire to be a photographer someday; currently, I'm a respiratory therapist lamenting that the smoking rates are diminishing (only kidding). If you are ledge-surfing over the abyss concerning the dire state the United States is in, we have something in common. I consider myself an independent politically, and am not completely immune from listening to others, no matter how iconoclastic...

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms We are creating a complacent generation

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Most people-excepting the Presidents advisor's-are familiar with The Boy Who Cried Wolf. One of the modern worlds greatest problems, is constantly reminding everyone of the worlds greatest problems, not to mention keeping them in a constant state of readying for impending doom, only to be let down time and time again. Remember the book The Population Bomb, and the English demographer Malthus. Both proposed literally the same thing: the future held mass starvation due to the population rate outstripping the food production rate. God knows there are many hungry people in the world and a lot ...

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