Everyone seems to be working hard to make things over-complicated, unfathomable, unthinkable, overt, and above all, unreasonable. Perhaps it’s in the rush to be a part of the next killer meme. Or to get a video to go viral, add subscribers to whatever nonsense channels they have, so they can claim an income they aren’t getting, in hopes of scoring that income elsewhere.
Author Archives: Matthew Ballantyne
Why Does Small Town America Matter?
…right now, in 2019, small towns do have the ability to add some balance to the value they provide compared to their bigger, devouring brothers.
Travel: Delaware Beaches
There’s a grand sense of peace on this section of our country. The view is like a snow globe, all encompassing, round, but past any sense of limitations your eyes may provide. The view here is remarkable, much like the “Big Sky Country” of Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota.
How ‘Real’ is Story: What Treme Taught Writers
Writers are the greatest of story tellers, if only for the fact that the tools they have at their disposal give them the ability to tell the greatest version of any story. Especially when writing for a book, writers get use interplay between plot and story, the two main elements that advance a novel, andContinue reading “How ‘Real’ is Story: What Treme Taught Writers”
Work Update
I’m probably not doing enough to describe how great a cause this organization is, so check them out here: Concerns Of Police Survivors
Twenty Books for 2019
Why 20, and in 11 months? Because I wrote it, that’s why! And these are not books all published in 2018 or 2019. They are books I’ve either read recently, or in the past few years. They are in no particular order, and cover a litany of topics.
Friday Night Opinion Returns: Vince McMahon and the XFL, also Returns!
Yesterday we were entertained by a 25 minute, 39 second long remote-conference where Vince McMahon, owner of World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE Studios, and host of other multimedia endeavors, announced that he’s bringing back the XFL, a league that lasted one season in 2001, and was forced out of operation by a media-led backlash by thenContinue reading “Friday Night Opinion Returns: Vince McMahon and the XFL, also Returns!”
MLB’s (Ice Cold) Hot Stove 2018: Why It’s Happening, and How To Fix It
This year’s off-season of free agency has been stalled to a block of ice in MLB. And there is a number of working theories concerning what is happening. However, a few weeks back several MLB execs took some time to explain what was occurring, very publicly, without their names being attached. Their insight was likelyContinue reading “MLB’s (Ice Cold) Hot Stove 2018: Why It’s Happening, and How To Fix It”
Friday Night Opinion: Gun Control is Not as Easy as You’re Being Told
However, enacting public health ordinances, regulation, or similar structures ‘to combat gun deaths’ is a rather sophomoric response to the all too serious state of mental illness in our country, and speaks to agenda, rather than real solution building.
Go Cubs Go! NLDS Game 5
There’s really nothing else to say about it, critiques from the first four games still apply.
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