SG Cordray Pondering the Universe

I have assiduously avoided talking politics on the internet or any other venue. I’m a pacifist at heart but I’m a pacifist who can be pushed only so far before I fight back. For years now… almost the entire 8 years… I have wondered why people hate George W. Bush so much. It’s unrealistic at its best description, let alone in the context of this great democratic society which we all tout. In my quest to understand this phenomenon, I’ve been scouring the internet and arrived at a site which puts it in perspective(a psychological perspective, which is what I was searching for):

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/

While I don’t necessarily agree with everything the good Doc says, most of it makes a lot more sense than the unreasoning hatred does. At the same time I have hope; hope that I’m not alone in my sentiments and thoughts about current events in the world because there are tons of links to other sites with similar thoughts. 

It is not a site for the faint at heart, for sure, and much of it may even make you angry. It is a site guaranteed to get you thinking about the world if you are open to anything but your own opinion, which may or may not have been formed under the coercion of mainstream media.

If anyone has links to opposite views within a psychological context, such as this site’s, I’d appreciate it. I like to look at both sides.

I believe they may actually be made of gold… mine. Yesterday, I went through the drive through, ordering two #7s at $3.20 each and one #9 at $3.75. My total was 16.44 according to the cashier. When I asked for clarification, the cashier rapidly answered with, “Please pull up to the first window to pay.” Do the math. The order came to $10.15 before tax. My tax was approximately 60% of my order. Had I a calculator at the time I could give you an exact amount but I didn’t. I stayed in the line just long enough to do the math,  and then, as soon as there was room to move out of the queue, I left.

I wanted to play around a bit with opacity layers. The first background I chose was too busy as was the second, although the second wasn’t bad when I set the opacity higher. I collect images from webshots just because I find some neat images there. That’s where the first two backgrounds came from. The one up now, is one I made.

I usually start with a base template with a layout I like. It saves me a lot of coding time but the end product here is nothing like the base template I started with except for the layout.

Still, I like to give credit where credit is due. The base template came from: Theme URI: http://geo.trippy.org/themetest/
Author: Geo
Author URI: http://geo.trippy.org/

I find word press templating from scratch difficult, so many kudos to Geo for a nicely functional template from which I could build this new one.

 

working on a new template from a base template… bear with me. Some of the text and links may be difficult to see for a bit, while I look for better colors.