Time for a Real Change
On this New Years Day I was going through my email 'drafts' in hotmail, when I came across this. Especially now as we are already deep in the "dialogue" and the compostable rhetoric, this Amendment...
View ArticlePlastic, Profit and 'Progressive Nonsense!' oh, my.
[The below was written as a(n expanded) response to a story on NPR (and a comment from a Conservative critic railing against "Progressives" and their/my agenda against 'Free Enterprise and the American...
View ArticleLetter to Modern (Villainous) King John: Jaime Dimon, JP Morgan
History repeats itself ever and again, tyrants come and go by name, but the injury to Others remains the same. Here is a letter I edited and added to (italics meaning my addition to their suggested...
View ArticleWhy 'Non-Christians' are persecuting (so-called) 'Christians'
[This was written on my facebook page in response to a video of some 'Christian' Preacher indoctrinating four- and five-year olds in how to 'refute evolution.' (I can no longer find the Post I reacted...
View Article"Damn I'm rich! $$$$"
This was the post of someone I know on Facebook regarding a web site he went to on the relative wealth of most Americans. I know it was meant to show that We The People aren't really doing so badly...
View Article"Should Bible Classes be allowed in public schools?"
This was posted by the novelist Anne Rice on her Facebook Page asking for opinions. This below is my response (expanded, of course).Ms. Rice I'm sorry, but there's a very great distance between what...
View ArticleThe Big Hum
In an article I read recently on an experience of a different kind of Sexual Attraction, the Author took on what most people think should be the Big Bang of Attraction and expressed that a recent...
View ArticleDo You really feel Safe?
I live in Hollywood, a half a block off of The Boulevard and about two blocks away from The 101 (or for those of you who don't live in LA, Interstate 101). I hear helicopters -- circling, standing...
View Article"Practicing"
From the new collection "Dreams, Desires, And Dead Ends" All Rights Reserved. ©2012 Robert Alan Chappell Reproduction in part or in whole of this work constitutes property theft and will be prosecuted....
View Article"Since" [flash fiction from "Dreams...]
From the new collection "Dreams, Desires, And Dead Ends" All Rights Reserved. ©2012 Robert Alan Chappell -- Reproduction in part or in whole of this work constitutes property theft and will be...
View ArticleThe Perils of Un-Prepared
So I've been in the process of doing this crowdfunding thing (you know, PBS style asking for money without the large captive audience?), and I'm learning a lot -- unfortunately.To fully do one of these...
View ArticleExcerpt from "The Raceway"
From the new collection "Dreams, Desires, And Dead Ends" All Rights Reserved. ©2012 Robert Alan Chappell -- Reproduction in part or in whole of this work constitutes property theft and will be...
View Article“Religious Freedom”
There has been a cry on the Religious Right for some time now that “Christians” are being “persecuted” – both here in the States and around the world. As if this was a recent event, and that it is...
View ArticleHatred, Judgement and Beliefs
I've been in a conundrum lately.I would really like to step outside of Politics and political discussions, I'd like to leave behind any need to help correct, inform, or otherwise influence Others. I...
View ArticleThe Myth of “Whole Grain Goodness”
The Corporate self-enthroned Kings of Crops are jumping on the whole foods bandwagon and grinding it into the ground. By claiming the moniker “Whole Grain Goodness” for their GMO uber-processed...
View ArticleThe Internet and the Money Net
Hurricane Sandy is now history, and I'm sure living in New York City has not returned to anything approaching 'normal.' But what is the current condition of the City that Never Sleeps? Goddamned if I...
View ArticleIt's that Time of the Year!
And I"m not talking about either Christmas or the Beginning of the School Year. No, It's Election Time! Or as I refer to it as, time for Electile Dysfunction! And only the Red Pill will cure this one,...
View ArticleThe Key To Eternal Life
I went to a viewing of an Independent film the other night about an aging actress who is concerned with… Aging. At the end of the questions and answers, she said, “If anyone knows how to live...
View ArticleThe Bible and the 'Historical Jesus.'
To start off (and most likely piss off) a great many, let me say that I do not believe that the Bible is the 'inerrant Word of God.' The Bible to me (even the Title, 'The Book' means it was the only...
View ArticleObama and the "Grand Bargain"
I was telling people that, whether you voted for Obama for a second term or not, it was not going to do anything. Well, I was wrong.With a clear Victory just a few weeks in the past, you'd think that...
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