The World According to Me.

This morning I watched a special on Richard Pryor, a comic I've always thought was hilarious but I never knew the back story behind his life and comedy. I am too young to have seen him in his prime, but from what I've heard and watched, he was amazing. What the world needs now is a modern Richard Pryor and to stop stifling people based on a definition of what the current American stream considers 'acceptable' discussion. Richard Pryor was one of the first mainstream personalities to use Nigger on a regular basis; whether in an album title or the lines themselves. Richard Pryor one time fired his entire staff, because they were white, to rehire a black staff because he felt it was closer to what he was. Richard Pryor would also recommend how many whites should be in his audiences - this racial and cultural attitude brought him a laundry list of hardships. NBC censoring him, Vegas shows cancelling him and long periods without any stage to play on. Bringing me back to ...

Have you noticed the uptick over the last 10 years in 'anonymous' sources? It was once a standard that you couldn't or at minimum shouldn't post something positioning itself as fact if you couldn't point to a source. In modern times of Cable media, sources seem irrelevant or simply attributes that are noteworthy if you have them. I think back to College and remember being told that in papers I couldn't write something as a fact without stating a source; fumbling around with the APA sourcing guidelines was mind numbing. Fast forward to today and it seems media outlets can randomly publish fact from 'anonymous' sources and people consume it as fact, politicians respond to 'truth' and Twitter explodes. Does anyone else believe this is crazy? Should we hold official media and speech to a higher standard? Shouldn't the press who claims protections of the first amendment but also wants to be considered factual to at least source their facts to so...

Most people understand what a 'crime' is and in most cases, though never defined, a crime generally has a victim - something that was wronged and therefore justice must be provided. For instance an assault has a clear victim, a robbery has a clear victim, fraud even has a clear victim. One thing that doesn't have a victim, government enforced social behavior. Want a clear example? Speeding tickets. A speeding ticket is a fine, or worse, issued by the State to a Citizen even though there was no victim involved more than paper and policy. Speeding could lead to a crime (manslaughter, injury, etc.) but it isn't a victim based crime in itself. In fact you could argue that "safety" is used for many instance of social justice crimes. It is for your safety that many States require a seatbelt in your car - or you can be fined. It is for your safety that States have cell phone laws for vehicles - or you can be fined. Keep in mind none of these had a direct victim; cert...

The US has degraded into a childlike argument where instead of discussing openly the views you may have, you yell, scream, break things or all out boycott or delete them. We don't discuss anymore, which was the cornerstone of what made this Country great, instead we threaten and we bully. Take the latest show of lack of adulthood with "PewDiePie", a person on YouTube who posted what was labeled a "anti-Semitic" joke. Instead of leaving the account alone and allowing dialogue, YouTube bowed to public pressure (aka lynch-mob tactics) and deleted the individuals account. This is also know as silencing them. This was just the latest example of progressive limitations of free speech. If you don't agree, you delete. That is the American motto now. If you find something offensive, you don't discuss calmly opposing opinions and bullet points, you respond entirely with emotion and fear. America today resembles a 3rd graders fight at a park. Lots of yelling and ...