Vaguely political thoughts
Tag: 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 […]
Behold the FUTURE!
So I think I’ve finally figured out what I want to be doing here. So let’s get to that. 1: This blog. I’m going to be more diligent about tags and bringing it online, but I’m going to be trying to put a lot of my political thoughts here (albeit marked as such for people […]
The future of “Three Pantheons”
So Sundered Shroud is finally in a good place where I’m comfortable. But as that’s largely a setting I run for RP, that’s going to probably move to the back burner for a while now. So I’m turning my attention elsewhere. For the setting of another character. And while eventually they’re all going to get […]
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 […]
Bird rites
One thing I like exploring in some of my art commissions and stories are how cultures might have different developments, based on various factors. With the Thordani, a race of eagle people, there’s been a bit of ink spilled over this. Particularly their religious stuff. They’re from a Greyhawk-inspired D&Dish world originally, and while I […]
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 […]