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Celebrating Diversity in the Mid-Term Elections

   So, you’re celebrating a person’s victory based on race, sex, orientation and religion? That’s why people don’t like it. Intersectionality is the crap that people hate. Reducing someone to there immutable characteristics is absolutely immoral Those words are from…

Travis NealNovember 15, 2018 Politics No Comments
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner

Travis NealNovember 15, 2018 Articulations No Comments
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My Politics Series

One of the goals for this blog is to help me present my views to the world. This is important because it holds my views accountable.It forces me to refine and clarify until I am satisfied that the thought is…

Travis NealNovember 7, 2018 Politics No Comments
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Midterm Election Day! Egads!

Midterm Election Day! Egads!

It is another one of those days. I have been watching some of the political ads lately, admittedly the important ones are not running here, not that I am listening to local broadcasts of…anything. As always, they annoy me because…

Travis NealNovember 6, 2018November 6, 2018 Politics No Comments
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100 Words: Roger Mais “Red Dirt Don’t Wash”

He stood awkwardly, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, looking through the open pantry window with the dancing eyes of a boy about to receive a treat of good things. When his father finally addressed him he…

Travis NealOctober 30, 2018 Literature No Comments
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Paul Ryan for VP

The following was originally published on August 16, 2012:   I have been scouring the interwebs looking for a reason why Paul Ryan is taken seriously, and not by Republican ideologues, it is obvious why they like this guy. But…

Travis NealOctober 25, 2018 Politics No Comments
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“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” — Tacitus

Travis NealOctober 5, 2018 Articulations No Comments
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“It is the opposite which is good to us.” — Heraclitus  

Travis NealOctober 4, 2018 Articulations No Comments
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Introducing LEO

So I moved. To Alabama. From the Virgin Islands. Friends and family are confused. Even I am a bit confused. I never thought I would be returning the states, let alone to a place like Alabama. Why then did I…

Travis NealOctober 4, 2018 Meta No Comments
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Launching, again. Again again

It is another relaunch. Another major life change, so naturally it seems like an opportune time to restart this writing thing. The major life change? I have moved away from the islands and am now in Alabama. I moved away…

Travis NealSeptember 19, 2018 Meta No Comments
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