Vaguely political thoughts
Category: politics
Raise the damn minimum wage
On July 25th, 2009, the minimum wage was raised to $7.25 an hour. I was at a tour guide job. I’d started at state minimum wage in 2007 of $6.50. One thing I’d do sometimes for meals at that job was walk down to the local Subway and get a Five Dollar Footlong. This would […]
Laws are words on paper (Eagle Feather Law)
CW: discussion of animal cruelty and abuse in a historical context
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny
As mentioned previously, some years ago I had to have necessary optical surgery for a medical condition. And since then, I often get ‘halos’ around brighter lights. The first I really noticed it was at the movie theater, where there was a glow halo around the entire screen. This also is a serious issue when […]
Religious thoughts
Have a larger post on my faith journey coming later. But saw this today and wanted to save my thoughts. Not familiar with this source but just…the whole idea here that he’s working extra now to make sure…hate that part of Christianity. Like the whole vibe is just perverse. Humans are not perfect. We will […]
Police gaslighting
Cops lie. This isn’t actually news to anyone who’s been paying attention, but enough people don’t understand what it means that it’s worth rehashing. Cops lie. They lie all the time, and its baked into the culture. I hear about “a few bad apples” all the time, and its become long apparent that its more […]
“Nobody wants to work anymore”
A common line from business people is that “nobody wants to work anymore”. This is particularly common with lower-end, so-called “unskilled” jobs. I don’t believe any job is unskilled, but honestly, I think the problem is more that businesses have a certain level of choosy beggar going on. When I graduated college, I had an […]
Money is time.
Time and money are a spectrum. We often hear a saying that “Time is money”. But there’s a lot more truth to this than I think people realize. Not to say that you can’t have both; once you get to a certain level of wealth, you can have lots of time, and lots of money. […]
More healthcare woes
Back into this well. A few years ago I was informed I needed a particular medical examination. I went and got it. The local hospital I went to was in-network, and they provided the service, though the doctor was telehealth from another state; essentially the hospital had sub-contracted that function to a different clinic. After […]
An ounce of prevention…
So one thing I wanted to do with this blog is compile thoughts about current events some. I live in the United States, and I’ve been politically active for…well, a long time. The current situation has been a bit rough on my psyche, and I’m having to talk about it a lot, because once you […]