Yesterday was a day I would like to forget. I had a wonderful but long week at work including two days of travel. I could not wait to get home, and as usual traffic was keeping me from where I needed to be. I fought traffic for 2 1/2 hours to travel 65 miles in great anticipation of seeing the family, drink a few beers and watch some Red Sox pre-season play with my seven year old son. I walk in the door, the road rage drains from my body as I fall to the floor to let them jump all over m...

I have noticed that people use the words "Conservative" and "Liberal" quite a bit. In the interest of having fun I sometimes toss around the words myself because I enjoy making people squirm. I am actuaIly an Independent Voter and I find labels damaging. When discussing religion you fall into distinct categories; atheist or believer. When discussing race issues like affirmative action you are either a racist or you are not. And it logically follows that if you are discussing politics then you...

Ah, the curse of the well-informed is the heavy burden of the daily onslaught of bad news. I discussed this the other day with a friend and we mutually concluded that despite the psychological impact that the daily news had on us, anything less is ignorance. People occasionally remark that I am intelligent, I argue that i am merely well-informed. As my CEO once said of me to a client , "he can talk to anyone about anything at any time." But lately it is getting costlier to absorb the deluge o...

Greetings and salutations to all of my fellow bloggers. While I am new to this site I am not new to blogging. I am a big fan of the blog as a medium for the regular individual to speak his or her mind on anything regardless of its poignancy or grammatical content. The blog is for the person who doesn't feel their voice is heard by anyone from the coworker to their representative government. And thanks to the popularity of blogging political awareness has been raised and in many cases candidat...