The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: debate

  • What I Wish Biden Had Said

    What I Wish Biden Had Said

    I may get an ulcer leading up to this election.

  • Who Gets to Decide?

    Who gets to define what trouble is?

  • My Fruitless Debate with an Anti-Vaxxer

    My Fruitless Debate with an Anti-Vaxxer

    I had to try.

  • Sanctuary Cities

    I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about sanctuary cities. He happens to fall on the opposite end of the political bell curve, so debates with him can be interesting. And yet we never get hostile with each other, and still manage to be respectful. Why is that such a dying…

  • One Crabby Family

    During one of my recent “weekends” (Oh, to actually have it fall on a weekend, for once, but nooooo…) I went with my first Seattle friend to visit her parents in Port Townsend, Washington. What a gorgeous place! I’ll write about it tomorrow. For today, I want to write more about what interested me the…

  • Picking Fights

    There’s this habit that I will never understand as long as I live. Some people, it seems, take delight in getting others all worked up. I detect this mainly in the male of our species, but it’s not exclusive to them by any means. They find it funny to push other people’s buttons. They actually…

  • That Rage Place

    Maybe it’s because we can now hide behind the relative anonymity of social media, maybe it’s because we find less and less need to look one another in the eye, but it seems to me that more and more people are going to that rage place with relatively little provocation these days. A typical Facebook…

  • Andy Johnson is a Liar, and I Can Prove It

    Recently a journalist, Robert Montgomerie, contacted me about my most popular blog entry, Andy Johnson, SHAME on you!!! in which I describe in detail how this former member of the Florida House of Representatives stole several thousand dollars from me and refuses to pay it back. (For a shorter version of events, see Andy Johnson…

  • Let Your Freak Flag Fly!

    I like to wear crazy, colorful socks. That way if I find that I’m taking myself too seriously, I can always look down at my feet and regain a sense of emotional balance. I have always been drawn to people who are different. Whether it’s pink hair, or strange clothes, or simply thinking outside the…

  • Andy Johnson is Back on the Radio. Heaven Help Us.

    Yes, it’s that time again. My quarterly rant about Andy Johnson, the man who stole thousands of dollars from me and refuses to pay it back, despite my winning court judgment and my lien on his house. If you want to get the full, ugly story of what this man did to me, check out…