What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he [...]
The first book I bought for my Nook was Anarchy Evolution by Greg Graffin, founding member and lead singer for the seminal punk bad Bad Religion. Graffin’s ability with standard prose may not quite match his talent for writing great punk tunes, but for the most part I found myself in agreement with his take [...]
Reuters ran a story last Wednesday that reinforces what has become all too obvious as each Republic Primary debate appears to be an exercise to out-do the previous one in ugliness. For the first time in almost 50 years, the party’s leaders fear they do not have the power to anoint the candidate they believe [...]
Floridians may be able to take some measure of solace that their governor isn’t nearly as embarrassing as the one that currently presides over Texas, but we still have to suffer under arguably worse policies. Of all the draconian budget-slashing policies enacted since Rick Scott’s reign of error began, one of the more dubious in [...]
As social conservatives continue to lose ground in the culture war battle over equal rights for LBGT citizens, blogger Calvin Freiburger over at Red State posted a piece asserting that “GOP negligence” is largely responsible for the public’s increasing support for gay marriage: …in this observer’s opinion, this trend of Republicans taking their eye off [...]
First a minor correction to my inaugural post in which I wrote that one big motivation behind starting this blog was as a personal outlet for citizen journalism. After some further consideration, engaging in real citizen journalism is not something I have time for at the moment. Hell it’s taken me over a month just [...]
Hello and welcome to post zero of bulletin of the atomic citizen, another drop in the endless blogosphere sea. I am a professional software developer by trade, and also a journalism student at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, Florida. Despite the fact that programming languages and software design are the only fields [...]
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