When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Two hundred and fifty years ago, with these words, we the people declared to the world...

This will probably not shock those that know me but I just can't get into this sport. Well, that is not quite true. I do enjoy the USWNT play. They are uber talented and a proven winner and fun to watch. For the rest of the sport I'm somewhere between meh and yawn. Apparently I'm not the only one here in the US not watching the current World Cup. I have so many issues with this sport played by the men and run by an organization that actually gave the felon in chief a medal for being a...

Since my near death experience in March, I have shared with you a few of the recovery steps/roadblocks that have happened since. Nearly every day I am asked how are you doing and I appreciate the concern from most of you. I find it a little ghoulish that some of you have started a bracket to pick the day and time of my demise and that you started it at a watch party for my dying. I'm mostly pissed that I wasn't invited to participate. After drawing enough blood to start another person, and a...