Writers develop a unique understanding of words, emotions, and ideas. Everyone learns a wide spattering of words and their meanings. But writers usually find themselves when they go beyond those meanings, and find the meaningful connections between words. Some words form greater connections with others. Some words have limited connections they can make. But usuallyContinue reading “What I’m Thinking About: All This Turmoil”
Category Archives: Opinion
Why Men Should Study Psychology
You need to know this for your entire life; words mean nothing, behavior and actions mean everything.
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.
Opinion: Men Should Dress Themselves!
I am not sure when this became a trend, but I have noticed that men, or at least those that appear to be men, are allowing women to dress them. It is as if men, in general mind you, no longer know how to do anything, most of all prepare thyself for the day laidContinue reading “Opinion: Men Should Dress Themselves!”
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”
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!”
Mass Transit in Seattle: The Greatest Example in Modern Times of Government Corruption
Many transit systems in the US are born out of the same weird “conglomerate” government approach. Without getting into the same legal drivel they would like to hide behind, the basic idea is as follows: municipal governments in a concentrated area reach a conclusion that mass transit is something they need to pursue together. InContinue reading “Mass Transit in Seattle: The Greatest Example in Modern Times of Government Corruption”
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.
OKC Memorial: Did We Learn Anything?
Don’t think of this as a call to centrism, because it’s not.
Charlottesville: When Apathy and Confusion Collide
It’s time we as Americans got serious about a problem we have in our country, that we are contributing to: apathy. Because we refuse to be truly engaged in events like these, we give people like McAuliffe a platform to lie…
Matthew Ballantyne 