For those who voted with their vaginas...or for someone else's vaginas

Only beta males support abortion.

Happy Valentine's Day

Trace  Bundy covers GNR

Just read everything you can

It is with great joy I announce that my youngest has finally gotten the reading bug.

We think it may have been delayed to a gruesome sociological experiment we call Third Grade in our household. (Shaking my head, No, No, make it stop).

Many a night we have peeked into her bright orange bedroom and her wheat-blonde hair is peeking above a book in a halo of filament light from a lilypad sconce we installed next to her bed.

She just finished Carl Hiassen's 'Scat'

and LOVED it. I'm so pleased.

I am a voracious reader.

 Beloved...not so much although he really enjoyed

and is currently obsessed with

Me? My reading has deteriorated rapidly. Gone are the voluminous books of yore heavy of substance and world policy significance. No, my reading has degenerated into heady tomes such as 

But hey...it's the September issue. I must keep abreast (ahem) of the current fashion trends for September of 2013...oh wait that is September of last year....oh well....anyway....

I'm reading this thinking....dear God my brain has completely turned into mush. But then I skim the following statistic in an article in the September 2013 issue of Elle magazine...

"Obama has deported nearly 2 million illegal immigrants".

I had no idea Obama was such a nationalist. 

So my advice to you? Read read and read somemore...read the local newspaper, even if it is a Commie liberal rag. Read the differing perspectives, pick out the nuances, grab the statistics that really tell the true story.  Even if it is 'only' Elle September 2013.

"True genius resides in the capacity for the evaluation of uncertain, hazardous and conflicting information."- Winston Churchill. 

Don't ever stop. 

Hang onto it. Stay. Just stay.

So Good.--Ed. 

THROUGH HIS DEATH PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN CARRYS THE MESSAGE THAT ADDICTION IS FATAL - PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN HAD BEEN CLEAN AND SOBER FOR 23 YEARS UNTIL 2012 - Phillip Seymour Hoffman came into recovery for alcohol and narcotics when he was 21 years old. He attended meetings for many years.

Clean and sober – and in full possession of his faculties – his work was inspired.
The rest of his story – is common garden variety relapse. Stopped going to meetings. Disconnected himself from recovery.

In early 2012 he began to abuse prescription medications - once having relapsed – after 23 years clean - he dove back into snorting and shooting heroin.
The old recovery slogan is true: While we are sober our disease is in the parking lot doing push-ups - getting stronger -waiting for us to let down our guard - so that it can attempt to kill us once again.

We don't pick up where we left off - we pick up as if we had never stopped.

Phillip Hoffman quickly became unable to function - became reclusive - then recently went into detox – but did not return to his recovery program.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman died from a fatal progressive disease - not a moral failing.

My dear friends – we are given the GIFT of sobriety. Never forget what it is that gets us sober – A Power Greater than ourselves. The first time around – recovery is granted us through Grace and Mercy. When we let go of that gift – we have to work hard to get it back. Hang onto it. Stay. Just stay. ---Gary Kimble