Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

AZ Prop 100

I’ve been meaning to get my thoughts on this in writing for weeks, but haven’t taken the time. I guess, since tomorrow is the day, I should finally post this. This post is sticky till the election is over, scroll down for newer posts. The politicians are doing it again, relying on scare tactics and […]

Amendment 10

Recent conversation with a friend regarding Arizona’s new “Constitutional Carry” law. Me: (reading from the article)   Forty-five other states require permits for hidden guns, and two states — Illinois and Wisconsin — prohibit them altogether. Him:   If they can decide their own gun laws, why can’t Arizona choose it’s own health care? Darn […]

Remedial Education

Are you smarter than a 5th grader on economics?   ✏

Joy – or You Are What You Experience

From Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users. She has a very detailed post on the effect others have on us, specifically why surrounding yourself with people who have a positive mindset is a positive step.Spend time with a nervous, anxious person and physiological monitoring would most likely show you mimicking the anxiety and nervousness, in […]

It Can’t Happen Here?

A post at Big Government, reminding us of Sinclair Lewis’s prescient book, It Can’t Happen Here, gives us the comment of the day: What are you talking about Zak? The electorate in this country would have to consist of fools for something like this to happen. It would take a generation of people dumbed down […]

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