The Rambling Taoist

My wife & I listen to different radio stations. She favors country and modern pop, while I prefer a weird eclectic mix of 50s & 60s...

All throughout my adult life I've heard the term "environmentalist", often in a pejorative manner. For most of that time, I...

I don't know why so many Americans continue to associate the word coward with suicide bombers. There are quite a few words that I can ...

In examining the many variables that led Cho Seung-Hui to commit unspeakable horror at Virginia Tech, pundits, "experts" and the p...

After the tragic events at Virginia Tech University, a lot of people are coming out of the woodwork to analyze how something of this nature ...

Every time there's a horrific mass shooting -- like today's tragedy in Blacksburg, Virginia -- I hear people express the common sent...

When you live in a rural community -- one that's off the beaten path -- things that big city folks take for granted are really neat. Wh...

I'm something of a Titanic buff. I've read numerous books and watched several documentaries that tell of the tragedy that befell t...

I've been hearing the usual yammering lately about the so-called illegal immigrant problem. According to the narrow-minded, illegals ta...

In many ways, I'm really glad to see more and more people thinking g-r-e-e-n. Consumers are starting to pay better attention to what go...

We live in a strange world indeed! A little past 4:00 a.m. today, my german shepherd-collie started charging the front door, barking. I did...

One personality trait that many people value is consistency. I've noticed that a great number of people tend to confuse it with trustwo...

It's been over one week since my last blog post. I haven't had much time to write as I've been serving as a nursemaid to a very...

I'm standing in the checkout line at the local grocery store. The clerk and the young guy behind me are talking about the truck driver ...

I don't think a day goes by when there isn't at least one report in the media about some type of heinous crime -- murder, torture, r...

Daylight Savings Time (DST) is almost upon us and I'm excited. I greatly dislike Standard Time (ST). In fact, it bums me out each Fall...

We all know how ubiquitous spam has become. I read somewhere recently that some experts believe that 90% or more of ALL email is unadultera...

Did you know that if you send a letter to a friend in Afghanistan, Belize, Columbia or Zimbabwe that there's no need to include a postal...

On Thursday, several hundred people descended on the Washington State Capitol in Olympia for a rally and testimony before a state senate pan...

In almost every life, there is a defining moment -- meeting your beloved, the birth of a first child, allowing a life's lesson fully to ...