Author: Jim Richardson

My partner and I usually spend a few hours each evening around dinner time watching the TV. We usually catch a bit of the news, Jeopardy, and then move on to something that is on our well-stocked DVR. Since most of our watching is from shows that we’ve previously recorded, and our DVR remote control… Continue reading Caveat Emptor

A sonnet by Emma Lazarus is engraved on a bronzed plaque and mounted on the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Probably the most recognized line from this sonnet is the one that says “…Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to break free. The wretched refuse of… Continue reading The American Dream

I just returned from a trip down the hall to the coffee pot, where I paused for a minute to listen to a conversation at one of the cubicles I pass. Apparently, Carolyn has a rabbit problem at her house over in Southwest Denver, not something uncommon around these parts. Everywhere you look you can… Continue reading Things that go bump in the night

It occurred to me last night while I was preparing dinner and watching news stories flick by on the TV, that when I was a kid, and well into my twenties, I rarely paid attention to the news of the day, and as a result of not knowing what dastardly events were transpiring around the… Continue reading I want my innocence back!

A couple of years ago, on one of my trips to Puerto Vallarta, I met an exhuberant young man named Elias Solorzano. I was strolling down Los Olas Altas one humid July evening, and at the corner of Olas Altas and Francisca Rodrigues at the Apaches restaraunt, at one of the sidewalk cafe tables, sat a handsome young man, engaged in… Continue reading Elias Solorzano

Today is the day we Americans set aside as “Memorial Day”. A day we remember our military veterans, and thank them for the sacrifices they made to protect the freedoms we celebrate as Americans. Much ado as made in various ceremonies around the country about American Values, and our constitution, and our unique Bill of… Continue reading Memorial Day

I’ve been watching American Idol since season 5, when Taylor Hicks was the winner, although he seems to have pretty much vanished from the face of the earth since. Winning American Idol has rarely meant that fame, fortune and money will come rolling in. Kelly Clarkson, the winner of season 1, Carrie Underwood, the winner of… Continue reading Idols

Ok, if you were to stumble across a website full of red, white and blue, with a logo that used the Statue of Liberty, you’d assume that you’d found something good, wholesome, and, well, maybe just truthful? The first thing that drew my attention to the fact that this web site wasn’t what I expected… Continue reading Americans for Truth. Really?

I’m sure that many of us here in the United States hears what the major news media wishes to report about Mexico. The war between the drug cartels has escalated into insanity, and hundreds of innocent bystanders are murdered each month. The graphic photos opportunities are enough to chill one to the bone, and make… Continue reading Mexico is not a dangerous country

Anyone who has read my comments on this blog has probably come to the conclusion that although I do have some conservative republican views, for the most part I’m a mixed up DemoLiberCrat. (Democrat/Libertarian). There’s also a fairly broad streak of Independence in there too, although that’s not really a political party. However, I definitely… Continue reading Apparently, I’ve been living in a cave ….

When I was a kid, practically everyone in town ended up going to the public school. There was the odd private school – the local Seventh Day Adventist church had one where I attended 2nd and 3rd grades, and I believe there was a Catholic school, but by and large, all the kids went to… Continue reading Is Public Education an Oxymoron?