James B. Barnes

While you’re burning the candle at both ends trying to meet rent, power, water, phone, and still have a bit left over for food and at least one craft beer Friday night your ancestors were killing it three out of seven days of the week and drinking craft beer every day.

Be careful out there kids and don’t ride in poorly lit areas or you’ll end up like a storm trooper in Return of the Jedi…that’s on your back with all your stuff taken.

“If North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford, Connecticut.”

A tribute to real life heroes.

When you have an extreme power differential and absolute unchecked power, bad things start happening.

Since 1993, roughly 370 women have been murdered in Juarez with a third suffering sexual violence.

All the alcoholics I know became alcoholics in college, joked about it as if it weren’t true through their early twenties, and then had breakdowns in their late twenties or early thirties.

It’s often hard to tell if Rodman is joking or not when he talks about Kim being “brave and honorable” and by often I mean I have no idea whether he’s joking or not.

The Pentagon isn’t particularly known for humoring those who decide to do their own thing and same sex benefits for service members, according to many, has been on of President Obama’s crowning achievements.

A report from the father of a dead rebel who allegedly spoke to him about these weapons directly is compelling. If true, it raises a number of questions about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the delivery of chemical weapons to rebel factions.

Seriously? You have got to be kidding me…

We currently live in a system of commerce that requires very little input from ourselves outside of negative choices, not that, not that, not that. I’ve written on aspects of this before a bit but think about it, when was the last time you made a positive, affirmative choice? Yes, Starbuck’s?

I was reading this the other day and, while I agree with some of the things Shawn Binder mentioned, ultimately I think his advice works best for those who haven’t engaged in much healthy competition in their lives or, for whatever reason, aren’t able to.

Sometimes it’s nearly impossible to believe in a dream unless someone else has the courage to have it first.

But really, why even wait for the evidence that Kerry and Obama are demanding. Let her fly, maybe this Thursday.

There doesn’t seem to be a common wellspring from whence this maniacal charge could arise. Then I remembered that I happen to be naive. What’s the answer to most questions of culture that you can’t answer? Money. It’s almost always money.

Eleven years ago we got the Weapons of Mass Destruction scare. As a result, we invaded Iraq, needlessly, and thousands of Americans died fighting a war that no one but they and their families had to pay for on a daily basis. Taxes went down, not up. No one had to pay anything. The worst part is that it was all built on scare tactics that Republicans and Democrats alike went right along with. Now I see we’re replaying that film.

People put themselves in danger and hurt themselves saving dogs and I have to wonder if that isn’t some implied recognition that to so many of these animals we are gods for good or ill. They count on us. They look to us.