Let's get our feelings out of the way, first thing. Sarah Palin just might be less qualified for the presidency than I am. Her selection by John "Maverick" McCain was nothing more than a publicity stunt meant to grab headlines and "steal" the white women vote from Barack Obama, after a bitter battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton. Period. McCain made the decision. The justification process came afterwards, which isn’t surprising since anyone ...

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." --- General Omar Bradley, Armistice Day Speech 1948.

Humanity is far from deserving the use of the word “perfection” in its vocabulary. We know not the meaning behind this word, but most certainly we succeed in our attempts to transform it into a twisted, broken visage of whatever truth about it that we were aware. Humanity ...

"Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras."

Nature has a tendency to heal. She heals both physical wounds and those wounds that deliberately eat away at our hearts and minds. She even ...

I was once told by a wise woman that there are only two things that you can't talk about with others: religion and politics. With either one, you're bound to step on toes and cause arguments that are based in nothing more than personal preference and deep-seated bias. Unfortunately I've always been one to throw around religion in casual thoughts and words - a by-product of my education and interests - and politics, with ...