Rants

Just me ranting about stuff. Take with a grain of salt.

I Can’t Get Past Trump Support—And Maybe I’m Not Supposed To

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I’m a moderate living in a very conservative area, and I’ve never been able to support Donald Trump. It’s not even primarily a political disagreement I have, but a moral one. For a long time I assumed this meant I needed to argue better, explain more clearly, or find the right framing that would make … Read more

What is Donald Trump’s relationship with the truth?

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Donald Trump’s Relationship with Truth: An Analysis This post will be more formal that most, due to the present-day dangers of engaging in any political discourse. I’m posting this because it saddens and offends me what I’ve seen over the past several years. I will make the case that not only is Donald Trump a … Read more

The College Football Playoff travesty, and who should be playing in it!

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I’ve written a pretty decent post below, but if you’d rather watch a funny video that makes all my points plus a few extra, simply watch it instead. Here it is. I haven’t posted in a while, but I haven’t been this fired up in a while. I’m a college football fan, as most of … Read more

The dangers of blind loyalty to political parties

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This is one of those things that’s been in my head for a while and needs to come out. This kind of feeling is what led to my initial post on the Iraq War, of which I’m very proud. This is something I’ve been passionate about for decades, and as the political polarization of this … Read more

My review of Disney’s Aladdin (2019)

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I still remember the first commercial I saw for the animated Aladdin, back in 1992. There was a quote from one critic along the lines of “It would take a miracle to surpass Beauty and the Beast. That miracle is Aladdin.” I was immediately nettled. Ever since I had fallen in love with The Little … Read more