The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

On February 10th of this year, I wrote a blog entitled, "'The difference between high school in 1970 and 2015' is common sense, research, and evolution...," which can be read here - http://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-difference-between-high-school-in.html?showComment=1452562538036#c178470387604326188. The blog had to deal with a viral post I read on a friend of mine's Facebook page, which tried to prove the the conservative talking point that things were much better back in the day, without political correctness, without the "coddling" of our children, without as many rules and guidelines, etc. Here's one example of what I'm talking about with regard to the post: "Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack. 1970 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack... ...

I still have a bit of work to do, but for anyone who's curious, here are the links to my Facebook business, Twitter, and Tumblr pages: http://www.facebook.com/AuthorCraigRozniecki?ref=hl https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki http://www.tumblr.com/blog/rozzy81

In both debates to this point, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his P90X workout buddy Paul Ryan have laid claim that there are six "studies" which defend their tax plan as being mathematically possible - to cut taxes by 20% and balance the budget without raising taxes on the middle class. Some light has been shed since both future GQ cover boys made these claims at their respective debates these past couple weeks. These "studies" weren't actually studies at all. No, they were more along the lines of blogs and op-ed pieces written by conservatives. Yes, what you see before you right now - this would be a study in the eyes of the Romney campaign team. Senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie engaged in the following back and forth on Fox News Sunday  today with Chris Wallace: Gillespie: "These are very credible sources, and, you know..." Wallace: "One of them is from a guy who is - is a blog from a guy who was a top adviser to George...

I just thought I'd let readers know that I'll be going in to have surgery today (gallstone), so chances are that I will either write a blog tonight while extremely high off, I'll call it "pain medication" (maybe because that's what it will be) or will have to update my blog in the coming days when I'm ready. Wish me luck or wish the doctor(s) skill or something along those lines!

Why is it that some bloggers feel the need to preach? I don't mean that they start writing scriptures and giving blogified sermons. No, I mean that they preach and lecture about different topics. Many times, the blogs are directed towards a "you." So, when I read it, I'm thinking, "Me? What? What did I do?" There are obscenities thrown around, insults and the lecture usually consists of how a person or persons needs to go about something, how they can't go about something, what they have to do in order to better a situation, what they can't do, etc. I don't enjoy preaching blogs that make me feel like I'm at the back pew of a church and the pastor is looking right at me as he raises his voice. It's not a very comforting feeling. It doesn't give me a fuzzy feeling inside if I open a book and it says, "You need to stop being so stupid and break up with that girl! She's an idiot! She doesn't deserve you! I hate her! Ah...