I’m a conservative and not now, or ever have I been ashamed of my political/social outlook. I don’t consider myself so much right-wing as someone that’s a Constitutionalist. I believe that all Americans have the rights and privileges described therein and that even though we may disagree on policy, which is not unusual even among those of similar disposition, we are still one people.
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Anyone peruse YouTubewith any regularity? I know a lot of people that do and it’s not just because they have a lot of How to and DIY videos there for almost any task you can think of. but a lot of videos of people posting their lives, some of it interesting, some not. I just started watching regularly a few months ago and I instantly found a couple of shows that I do watch every Sunday: Each show is a young woman renovating a house, mostly by themselves. But that’s just 2 of, I don’t know how many. I watched an entire series of a guy building a small cabin on some property up north. From nothing, to a livable, off grid, cabin.
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It may(or may not) surprise you to discover that most atheists are men. According to Pew, about two-thirds of people that identify as atheist (I think that includes agnostic as well) are men and the other one-third consists of the other 71 genders. Okay, a poor joke. Of course, it’s women. Why is that? It’s a question that has been asked by a lot of different people over time and no actual consensus has ever been made. There are some ideas as to why this is true, but none that seems to satisfy those that believe in the strict equality of the sexes (or genders).
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As much as I try to, I can’t avoid politics here as uh as I’d like to. It’s become endemic in our lives, hasn’t it? The the advent of cable news over the past 40 years or so (CNN premiered June 1, 1980), it doesn’t seem we are able to avoid what passes for news today. In fact, what we regularly receive is not news in the classical sense, but infotainment, you know, something with just enough of what might be referred to as news, wrapped up t be fun and engaging. At the end of the day, are we any better informed than we were? I don’t think so.In fact, we can look at hundreds of examples, daily, and see how those that present as news attempt to manipulate their audience into believing something that is clearly, on second (maybe third) look, is blatant propaganda, pressing forward an ideology, whether it be political or cultural, instead of just informing.
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I am loathe to discuss this latest Trump “gotcha” by the GOJ, mostly because it seems it’s just another attack pn the guy because he’s considering running for president again. This story, though, highlights what I really want to focus upon and that is the reaction from the press when one of these big stories drops in their lap.
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