Bit the Bullet

"I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more!!!" - Popeye


I shake my head more and more everyday and wonder what happened to the world I am living in? How did we get here? WHY did we get here and how in the h-e-doublehockeysticks do we get out of this?


Why do people put so much trust in a government that has proven time and time again to be a worse choice than our own personal convictions? We look to government to save us from all the evils that we "think" exist. When did we stop thinking and acting on our own? When did we stop knowing that what is best for me is NOT best for my neighbor? When did we lose sight of "Thou shalt not covet?" When did we lose our way to solve our own problems within our OWN households and communitites? When did government become mother and father?


It is maddening to think that we continue to forego our freedom to a group of men and women in a city far away (Ronald Reagan's "shining city on a hill" is a distant memory there today) in hopes of something being returned to us. Have we not learned anything of the past? Can anyone see the similarities of this in the world today? Yesterday? Tomorrow?


Now that I have that off my chest, A little about me and what I expect to accomplish here. I am an actor striving to be a computer systems analyst. As the name suggests, I am a tenor (for those of you in Carter Lake that is a vocal range associated with singing)...a first tenor as a matter of fact. Are there any others? Real men sing tenor. Deal with it. I have been acting for the better part of 20 years on stages in Kansas City and Omaha. Btw, I ABHOR Shakespeare. Talk about a self-important, self-loathing, author who has NOTHING to say. Sheesh. Originally from Iowa...so, yes, I can make fun of my own state...I have been in the KC area for over 15 years and am employed by a major transportation carrier. I also am a part-time dj for a country music station here in Kansas City as well. For thsoe of you who loathe country music, I'll see you in 10-15 years. I was born with a radio attached to me when I came out of the womb and still believe in the power and magic of radio. For those of you with .mp3 players, they make great workout accessories, but nothing beats live, personal and relative radio broadcasts. The .mp3 is just another in the long line of self-gratifying, self-obsessed, "I want it now" pieces of equipment that make us more important than we really are. I have no issue with the technology, it's simply the attitude that goes along with it. Hey, I'm to impatient and too important to wait to hear my favorite song or group...or to converse with you. E-mail is another. Why have we become so afraid to be personal? Why are we afraid to talk to one another?


But I digress...I am not the sharpest pencil in the box but I have a lot to say. You may agree, you probably won't but hey, it's a free (maybe for a little while longer) country. I don't care if you don't like me. I don't care what you think of me. I just don't care. My job is not to be liked. I am an I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L. I am not a conformist...far from it. I do not "go along to get along." I ask questions. I probe. I try to understand folly and wonder why we go to so much trouble to live with folly. See, to me life is simple; we make it difficult by inventing all the "gray areas." To me, it's black and white. The bit is either or off...a little computer lingo there. When we start looking for gray, we get all caught up in analysis/paralysis and forget to look at the real, bottom line problem or issue.


So, you'll see a lot of just about everything that interests me here...politics, government, life, love, sports. Feel free to post away. I will NOT partake in any flaming wars...life is too short for "you're stupid" arguments. So, if you're lurking for that, please pass on by. There is nothing to see here.


So, sit a spell and enjoy the surroundings...or not.