Take a snapshot of my life a little over a year ago. I was working three jobs. On top of those three jobs, I was saving myself and thus my kids thousands of dollars a month by also representing myself pro se in divorce court, basically a forth job as my own lawyer in my […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Doing The Same Thing, Expecting Different Results
Check out this image by Andy Singer: What do you think? Please leave a comment below. What I Think A small fraction of what even just the USA–just one country–spends on military could provide food, clothes, shelter, quality education and healthcare for all. This has so much to do with 18,000 children dying each day–each […]
Many Americans Want to Bomb Agrabah
Would you support an initiative to bomb Agrabah? Spending billions of dollars waging a military attack on Agrabah would mean billions of dollars in revenue for Washington insiders like Halliburton. Would you support it? There’s just one problem. Agrabah doesn’t exist. It’s the fictional city in the movie Aladdin. Yet, a clever poll by Public […]
Why are you worried about terrorism exactly?
Here is an interesting question from The Fifth Column: Since the September 11th attacks, there have been a few Islamist terrorist attacks inside the United States. In total they killed 38 people over 14 years. More veterans will kill themselves today and tomorrow than US citizens were killed in 14 years by Islamist terrorist organizations […]
Point: Trump
The politicians from both parties are owned by the same group of wealthy special interests. These bipartisan wealthy special interest groups actually receive the vast majority of tax dollars. The politicians use half-assed trickery to keep us divided over wedge issues like abortion or universal healthcare, as if an allegedly more or less efficient health […]
New England Police Union Endorses Trump
It looks like the New England police union (NEPBA) will endorse Trump.1 In other unrelated news, my New England home state of Connecticut spends billions of taxpayer dollars hunting down and locking up peaceful people for things like marijuana or–coming soon–just being Muslim. Which is worse: being Muslim or being a pacifist smoking a joint? […]