For the Greater Good

I will never cease to be amazed.

Do we not all want pretty much the same things: security, education for our children, steady jobs, food on the table, a roof over our heads, health care, retirement, prosperity?  The list can go on and on, but that fact remains that we're all in this ship together.  Sounds simple enough, but there's a problem.  We don't all want the same things, some want more, and more, and more.

These are extraordinary times.  This is a time to work together at a common goal; to fix what is broken in our country.  This is not a time to be fractured (if there ever is).  This is a time to put personal agendas aside.  No longer is it time for business as usual.  It is time to wake up to the seriousness of our situation .


I'm having a hard time with those who persist in acting like self-centered children, when what we really need is adult leadership.  The Conservative v. Liberal, the Left v. Right and everything in between is counter-productive, and I would submit, un-American.  Tea parties are for children.

There seems to be a lot of time and effort spent with the goal of discrediting our President.  People, he is our President and he has stepped into one mell of a hess.  Is there any one of us who could make things right in a little over a year?  Don't think so.  Back off, and let our leader do his job as best as he can.  Listen to him and support him.  That's being Patriotic.  If, at the end of his term, things are not better, we also have the right,  as American Patriots,  to elect someone else.  That's the way it works.

This is a democracy, remember?  It's what fits best for the majority, not what fits best for a select few.  It is not what is best for corporations and special interest groups, banks, Republicans, Democrats, what-have-you,  but rather for the whole; the Country.

You and I are the Country.  It's  time to work together.

The Heart of the Matter

I suppose because it's Valentine's Day it would be appropriate to write some mushy lines dripping with syrupy sweetness, filled with corny cliche's and then decorate the entire page with flowers and the likes of cupid.

Ok.







To My Valentine:


So swift, it's silent shaft pierced my heart,
My soul.
Who watched with patience,
My guard, my shields to draw back?
Oh, young archer, how clever you are,
How diligent in your work,
To wait and watch and wait again,
for your mission, my destiny,
To consummate.

Success was yours,
My silly nymph,
So many years ago.
With golden tip, your missile flew,
and struck its target deep.
Yet paradox begets paradox
In your stock and trade,
For no trauma did I suffer,
Only True Love was mine to gain.




Happy Valentine's Day, honey!  You are forever in my heart.

Expressions v2.0 or Say What?

Our speech is riddled aphorisms, sayings, phrases, epigrams and the like.  Although most still ring true (there's one now), I'm thinking it might be time to update, to make them a bit more au courant, and possibly more or less politically correct.  I tend to be a bit geeky, so of course, my versions will reflect this.  I'm also a bit goofy (say it together: "Really, Tom?"), but I will try my best to keep that side repressed in this serious matter.  :-p

So, let's get the particles accelerating (ball rolling).  First the original, then it's updated version:

• March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.  
• March comes in like an iPhone and goes out like an iPad.

• A penny saved is a penny earned.
• $.01 deposited pre-tax into a 401k or IRA is subject to substantial penalties for early withdrawal.

• She's having a bad hair day.
• She's follicle-ly challenged.   or sing it:  follicle-ly, follicle-la, follicle-ly, follicle-ah ha ha ha ha ha.

• What I said was taken out of context.
• They copied and pasted what I said.      

• Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed.
• Looks like someone couldn't remember their sleep number.

• He went the whole nine yards.
• He went the whole 8.2296m.

• Looks like you have the best of both worlds.
• I see you have a Mac and a PC.

• You're between the Devil and the deep blue sea.
• I see you have a Mac and a PC.

• Call the dogs off!
• Who let the dogs out, who, who, who?

• I heard it through the grapevine.
• I just read it on FaceBook.

• She found out by word of mouth.
• Someone tweeted her.

• There's no place like home. 
• There's no place like 127.0.0.1  

Think I'll stop there.