Tao’s 2 Cents

These are just a couple pictures I snapped when I drove through the park last weekend.
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This last weekend was a good one, the one before it was really good too. I better keep doing what it is I’m doing. John came up to Richmond for a conference so I drove down to see him. I don’t think I’d seen him in well over a year. It was only supposed to take me 2 hours and 45 minutes to get there but it ended up taking about 5 with all the traffic. I left way early to beat it up, but not early enough apparently.

Richmond’s a nice town, it kind of reminded me of what Memphis would look like if it were really cleaned up. We went and ate at an Irish pub with his roommate who he had to drive back Saturday. They both gave presentations at the sociology conference they were at and now that it was over they were both happy to go out on the town…

Oh man, I love the Onion.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

I’ve been telling people that Hillary reminded me of Tracy Flick(Reese Witherspoon) from the movie “Election” and not many people remembered the movie, but some people did apparently. I guess my problem with is that she feels like she deserves because she’s been wanting it for so long. Eh, this is funny though.

I haven’t written much in the last few weeks. I’ve been waiting to write something worthwhile. There is so much happening in politics, but I’m so tired of the litany of talking heads that I don’t feel the discourse needs any more noise. Dream tickets, hope, change, change, and more change. […]

As I gave Obama $50, I decided to also give Kucinich $50.  I feel like Obama may be what’s practical but Kucinich still embodies far better my own beliefs.  Even though Kucinich may not be “viable” I’ll still be voting for him in the primaries unless Obama and Hillary are close, in which case Obama […]

When I look around me I see a lot of people chasing things that will never make them happy. I imagine there are many more like me who can see that the dreams the powers that be teach us to chase are hollow. Whether it be only a piercing ray of truth slipping through the cracks or an undercurrent of suspicion always there but never coming into focus.

It’s easy to understand how uncomfortable the process of realization is if someone is to acknowledge that they have spent so much time and energy on an illusion. The urge to block those rays and suppress those truths is made all the easier with the diversions provided by the ones profiting off the willing labor supplied chasing the carrot at the end of the stick. Yet even those profiting are chasing unfulfillment…

I’d like to welcome everyone to my 2 cents. I realize that everyone has an opinion, but not everyone decides to start a blog to share it. That’s a shame, I think they should. Everyone should be involved in the discussion of how are world is being run, how it could and should be different, and what we can do to make that a reality. So I’m here to add my voice to the chorus of those who have come before me and those who will come after. I want change. I want a more egalitarian society. I hate feeling ashamed of my own country.

So stick with me and throw me your own two cents. Then lets take over our government and show the world that we do value the same things as they do. That we do value life and legitimate freedom, not the bastardized bumper sticker versions on which they sell us their lies. Let’s roll.