Old Men say a lot of things. Some are stupid. Some are brilliant. Most are wasted because the audience left long ago.
This is my followthru on a threat to create a place for Old Men to speak their minds, share their experience, and speak out against the apparent idiocy consuming our world.
Here's your chance boys: Sound Off.
Need a topic? Here's a few:
1) This healthcare issue is a good place to start.
2) Or the concept of Jihad, does it lead to a new age of Crusades...
3) Why is there a Crisis of Leadership in this country?
(Will America ever see a centrist government again? wwfin.)
4) With guarantees of free speech, who holds the media responsible?
5) Is the U. S. Constitution obsolete?
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Can old women write too? I have so few political thoughts these days that the topics didn't get my kickers in a twist. But I love the idea of a forum for aging independent thinkers. Thanks for creating your blog. Let me know about the women thing.
ReplyDeleteChris, my dear old friend,
ReplyDeleteAll are welcome. I don't like censorship and hope to never be forced to implement it. But having said that let me stress, I greatly prefer colorful, pointed eloquence to anything 'politically correct'.
This grows out of past experience with brilliant emails that pass around on personal email loops and never see the light of day.
This grows out of an old threat to do just this and create a more public space for these comments to post.
Why Old Men? Because it seems to me that entire lives, interesting lives with valuable experience, just get retired to the porch rocker, where it sits in silence, frustrated past expression by years of being ignored.
Last chance in the public square boys; a chance to speak at the forum; to address citizens in the amphitheater; to shout from a soapbox in people's park... It's an old tradition in a new age of media... and I have a personal interest in getting the Old Men to Speak.
Regards,
Will Finfrock
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government... "
Thomas Jefferson
Take a look at g-man's site: g-man-mrknowitall.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteWillie, why aren't you posting anything to your blog for people to comment on? Write something new and volatile for me to look at.
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