Picturepocket's Blog

Category: politics

  • Angry Young Men

    I keep hearing voices in the media wondering about the motive of the attempted assassin. I am not sure what his particular ideas were, but it seems to fit pattern of public violence. Shooters are often angry young men. There have been several who went through high school, outside of the group, seeming inconsequential to…

  • The Clean Up

    In the late nineteen nineties, I did a research paper on Hanford. It was the location of the part of the Manhattan Project where they refined plutonium for the creation of nuclear bombs used against Japan in WW2 and during the build up of the Cold War arsenal. Because of the secretive nature of national…

  • A Prayer for Peace

    I haven’t logged an opinion on the Middle Eastern conflict until now because it’s been so fraught these days. Everyone seems to hold a rock-solid stance and everyone else is being called out who oppose it. Yesterday I saw in the news that there had been “an explosion” at a hospital in Gaza. The passive…

  • Independence Day

    It’s the time of the year when I see lots of patriotic posts, challenging people to show the flag and “Stand up for freedom and America.” I do celebrate Independence Day because as a movement it acknowledged human equality and unalienable rights. It’s also important to understand that the founding fathers’ first push for freedom…

  • Entitled

    With the recent passing of one of the longest reigning monarchs in Europe, people around the world are sharing their condolences with our British friends. Now that that’s over, I would like to remind everyone of the horrible religious, political and economic systems the monarchy represents. Even though the English crown was downgraded to a…

  • Things Just Got Real

    It’s all just talk until someone goes to jail.

  • A Blank Sheet

    Since you asked…

  • The World We Make

    Closeness isn’t automatic, it has to be built over time and engagement.

  • X-Men Again

    The theme rings true: the majority is often afraid of the minority that is different.

  • Time Travelers

    We are all time traveling right now at one minute per minute forward through time.