The "marble-layered cake" analogy regarding America's government is a reflection of how intertwined our three levels of government are. Those three levels of government are national, regional (or state) and local. Read More »
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American Democracy is a Marble-Layered Cake
People with disabilities
People with disabilities live every day with the same challenges that we face but with additional limitations. I do not think that people realize what those with disabilities must endure. People with disabilities wish they did not have any limitations, but most have learned to live with their disability and strive to make the best of each day and each challenge. Read More »
Why Am I Not Patient?

Is it too much to ask for?
"I just want to be tolerated!"
It's a line I hear often from a rather large amount of my gay/lesbian/bi friends; a line that resonates throughout the overal LGBT community. So, I find myself guiltily wondering, is it selfish of me to want more? Read More »

Wee Tiny Racism
I'm telling this story not to incite further debate on the state of racism today, but rather to illustrate the lengths to which we must go to combat our natural tendencies toward segregation. Read More »

I Don't Think That Means What You Think It Means...
Everyone remembers in the movie The Princess Bride when the short, bald (and probably French) Vizzini constantly declares that things happening right before his eyes are “inconceivable.” Finally, the valiant and swashbuckling Inigo Montoya points out his misuse of the word, proclaiming “I do not think that means what you think it means.” Read More »

The Impossibility of a Tolerant World
Tolerance is the big thing now. Tolerate everything! Tolerate this religion! Tolerate that religion! Tolerate my worldview! Tolerate your worldview! People want tolerance out of the world. But will they get it?
In the words of John Wayne, "That'll be the day." Read More »

Creating Tolerance
It seems like today there is more intolerance than ever. Everywhere you look there is a war, genocide, fight, all words meaning one thing: Intolerance.
War and intolerance has been going on for all of time. Why don't we change that? It seems that in today world with such change going on and so many modern thoughts that we should be figuring out how to get along. Read More »


