What's on your mind these days?

  OCTOBER 2025 -  Thoughts & snippets of wisdom

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 SEPTEMBER 2025 -  Thoughts & bits of wisdom

What's on your mind these days?

AUGUST 2025 -  Thoughts & bits of wisdom

Self-determination is losing its appeal. People now prefer a tough daddy figure.

It's not just happening in the U.S.; it's a trend that's happening everywhere.  People around the world seem to be losing interest in representative democracy, in doing the heavy lifting of making the big decisions.  Instead, more and more of us are happy to hand things over to a "big daddy," a strong authority figure, to manage everything for us, to give us everything we want, and to keep us safe and happy.  All we have to do is blissfully, lazily follow along.  Or am I misreading this?

If you were grand wizard of the galaxy, would you be okay with this?

Another school shooting! Isn't it time to rethink the Second Amendment?

Anyone who is interested should read up on the Second Amendment and how the wording has been interpreted by scholars.  It’s intriguing.

As one example, the term “bear arms” in old English law means “serve in a military.”  Before the U.S. was a nation, the only military we had were militias.  And, of course the Second Amendment is careful to include that.

“Well-regulated militia?”  Regulation, by definition, is done by the government.  Unregulated militias are illegal in our country.

And what did the terms “keep” and “arms” mean to the framers?

It can be argued, in fact, that the Second Amendment has nothing to do with anyone’s right to own a gun for hunting, self-defense, sport, or any other personal use.

I am of the opinion that the Second Amendment needs revamping.  The way it is worded makes little sense in today’s world.

Read up on it sometime.  It's a fascinating topic of scholarly debate.

Welcome again.

As you can see, this blog is literally an on-again off-again affair.  It began back about 2008, then sat dormant until 2015, when I briefly brought it back to life....for a short while.  And that's been a decade ago.  So, here we are. I'm back, once again contemplating a new 2024 version of it. 

What you may notice is that I am already systematically removing those old 2015 posts from here and archiving them.  It will take awhile, but I'm working on it.  Stay tuned for more.      

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 As you can tell, it's been a very long time since we met up on here.  In fact, it's taken me a couple of hours to figure out how to get back in here.  So.... I am "contemplating" (get it?) revamping things on here and putting it back into use.  Stay tuned for more to come. - Reed