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Dropping The Vote, Nov. 6, 2018

November 6, 2018 by

  Oregon voting works like a Starbucks, or McDonald’s, or Taco Bell drive through. We’ve all got the drive through part figured out, but what’s the order of the day? Vote. I dropped the vote off at a box near the Tigard police station. What could go wrong? My business isn’t telling others what to […]

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Standing Down In America, Vote Nov. 6, 2018

November 2, 2018 by

    A game has rules, a score, a winner, and a loser. Good sportsmanship comforts the loser, tells them they’ll do better next time. The winner stands in the light to receive their accolades. Voting is a little different.

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Humanities: Way Of Life Or Waste Of Time?

July 24, 2018 by

  What comes to mind when you hear the word Humanities, when a friend says they’re going to college to study Humanities?   Ask around and get back to me. I did it and came up with a few examples.   1-What are humanities?   2-Aren’t those the hippopotamus cousins that live in the Florida […]

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How Older Men Express Themselves When No One Is Around To Call BS

July 18, 2018 by

  I knew older men who’d been everywhere, done everything, and could drive any car ever invented.   They’d had every job from sales executive to mailman, to factory worker, to fighter pilot in three wars. Sometimes it was true.   One of them said he was shot down and imprisoned on a Japanese held […]

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Chain Of Command From The Bottom Up Point Of View

July 17, 2018 by

After you’ve lived in a chain of command culture the picture clears up. It’s not about being over-burdened, neglected, or picked on.   It is about preparing to be a better link in the chain. Not exactly another brick in the wall, a chain is more active.   Or it’s preparation to leave the chain […]

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Dear Millennial Voters, All Of You, From Air And Water

July 13, 2018 by

  The future is closer than you think, and you, millennial voters, will have the final say on the future you want.   Now the last thing you give two damns about is a rant from a flowing silver haired, mustachioed, Mark Twain wannabe blogger. I get it.   But, sometimes people need a little […]

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SHARED STANDARDS LIFT AMERICAN GREATNESS BAR

June 27, 2018 by

    In order to compete with Pew Research Center’s ‘fact tank’, nonpartisan, non-advocacy approach to public opinion, I ask strangers questions.   In a nonpartisan, non-advocacy approach I asked a fellow citizen in the sauna, an FCIS, if I could ask a few questions about shared standards. The old ‘question about asking questions’ technique. […]

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GILLASPIE LOVESEAT TO HONOR AMERICA. IT’S FRAGILE

June 17, 2018 by

    Who hasn’t been accused of making last minute presents? My specialty is carving names in oak with a router.   It takes practice, at least more than a last minute panic to produce something meaningful on Christmas morning.   I’ve been the object of such accusations, and while correct, there is a bigger […]

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PORTLAND CROSSROADS CULTURE BETWEEN SCIENCE, AGE, AND ATTITUDE

April 30, 2018 by

    All towers growing around Portland have at least one thing in common: At one precise moment they could either be a building going up, or on the way down. Like bomb exploded landscapes resemble a controlled demolition after the dust settles, a first glance can be so misleading.   Click the link to […]

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SECRET VOTES: SCHOOL, SAFETY, HEALTH CARE

June 21, 2017 by

During election years voters pick their horse, their favorite. No secret votes at the start. If they turn out they way they say they’ll turn out, good job in the ballot box. If they don’t they have a built in excuse: “I’m the lesser of two evils.” No one runs a campaign based on being […]

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