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With thirty years experience in consumer finance, having raised two daughters as a single father, and trying desperately to get through my second childhood, I bring two things to the table when I write: an overload of experience, and a sense of humor!

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Conflict: 11 of 43
My nature, my will,my conscience confronts.Soldiers lie dead,stricken in spot.Lightning crashes around!Dangerous dark cloudshinder lights of yore.Funnels swoop downto alter what waswith neither reasonnor rhyme. More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Understanding communism: 15 of 57
Most people associate communism with evil empires, tyrannical leadership, and domination and genocide. Most people are mistaking 'Marxism' as 'communism.'Karl Marx is misunderstood, especially by those who do not learn about him. He made a miscalculation, and coincided an extraordinary forecast with brilliant economic theory ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Football Was Super Bowl XL rigged?: 5 of 19
I'm a Seahawks fan. I have been since day one. I was a fan even when the team sucked. There may have been fans who wanted the Seahawks to win as much as I did, but no one wanted it more.Thirty years I waited for my team to get to the Super Bowl, and, finally, they get there! Then the refs make some bad calls, and my team lose... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Justice System Is the death penalty just or unjust?: 13 of 47
Unlike many who argue against the death penalty, I have no issue with the concept. If the concept of justice is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, it follows that justice extends to a life for a life. When the crime is executing a plan to take a life, the penalty of planned execution to take a life is just. I sincerel... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Feminism & Women's Rights The most influential first ladies in American history: 2 of 7
Most of America's First Ladies are known only because of their marriage to a president. For nearly two centuries, Abigail Adams alone held the distinction of also being a First Mother. Barbara "Babs" Bush joined her with that distinction when her son, George W. Bush, was inaugurated as president in January 2001. Though the di... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US News Humor: Daily news (12/02/07): 2 of 7
Leeland Eisenberg, the 46 year-old man who held hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters yesterday, says he was violently abused by his father as a child. When he sought help from a church, he was raped by a priest. He was denied treatment for his mental illness because he could not afford it, and even tried callin... More..
Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History The legacy of John Kennedy: 3 of 10
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was not his father's first choice to be president.However, the death in World War II of his eldest son, Joseph Jr., left Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the most significant family in American political history, himself an ambassador, grooming his relatively playful second son as the first in the line... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Supply-side economics: Do lower taxes increase a country's economic health?: 12 of 39
When supply-side economic theory is applied to taxation, it works perfectly. To construe into the topic that lower taxes is itself supply-side economics, is to not understand supply-side economic theory. If supply-side economic theory were applied to selected desirable qualities some rich people in America might consider bene... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Ghosts & Paranormal Phenomena Pondering the existence of ghosts, demons and angels: 24 of 74
Personally, I don't ponder whether ghosts and angels exist. Whether or not they are the same thing, and described differently because of perception or attributes, is something I ponder, but, what makes most sense to me is physical laws suggest they can possibly exist and I prefer to believe nine hundred million people who cla... More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Is there such a thing as absolute truth: 12 of 37
How illogical is it to answer this question 'no?' For, if the answer is 'no,' would that, itself, not be an absolute truth? The answer necessarily is 'yes,' because simply answering 'no' to the question means the answer is 'yes.'The question, for the purpose of debate, might better phrased 'is it possible to know the absolute... More..