I have often complained that our two party democratic system is like having a choice between flip sides of the same coin. So far there has been nothing in our current pick and choose that would cause me to reconsider that statement. Honest to goodness political reformers like Ross Perot and Ron Paul get lost on the media shuffle and there doesn't seem to be a coin edge's difference between the good old Republican and Democratic two party candidates on most issues to make either significantly better or worse.

I guess I could fill up this website with things I don't understand. (*Feel free to slam me for my previous statement it will help me prove my point) One thing has bothered me since my early days when chat rooms on the internet were in vogue and people actually chatted in them is that there is a core group who beyond looking for some way to belittle someone, cast disparaging remarks about their chat or posts have nothing or very little to contribute. Case in point check the TALKBACK section of the Morning Sun and you will find numerous examples.

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Can somebody explain to me why there is such a furor by some who are opposed to expanding electronic gaming (gambling) in the state? Correct me if I'm wrong but the dire predictions of widows spending their mite on slot machines instead of food and families being thrown into the streets for the same reason would have already happened with the introduction of scratch tickets, pull tabs, and KENO. Wouldn't it?

you can walk into a store and pay from fifty cents to five dollars and hope that the right combination of numbers will show up on a video screen during the game, or put money in a slot machine and hope the right combination of symbols show up during the game.  I don't really see a big difference do you?

I saw on CNN the other day about a mother charged with microwaving her infant child -

 What the hell is going on with the world? ! ?

The longer I live the scarier this mud-ball gets.

I have been trying to think of something catchy and informative to post for my first blog but everything so far sounds too haughty or non descript for my liking. I settled for the above because it fit more closely than the original "Traditional Values - Modern Philosophy" I was going to use.As I understand it blogs are supposed to be used to post opinions, articles of interest from other sources and personal responses to those articles.  Sort of a Get off of the Soap Box and onto the Internet thing, a way of expressing personal opinions so that other people can see how deranged you are.