March 2016 ~ Rational To A Fault

Saturday, March 12, 2016

America is Sick, Part II: An Arena for Arguments

11:10 AM Unknown

(This is a continuation of an essay examining the many ills of American society, as I see them, and hopefully some solutions to them as well).If you use social media, you may have noticed Facebook and other social media are often filled with arguments. Even before Facebook and Twitter and comments sections on news sites turned the internet into an arena for arguments, the rise of specialized sites...

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Monday, March 7, 2016

America is Sick, Part I: Cognitive Dissonance

11:15 AM Unknown

America is sick.I mean that there is an illness in American culture. Three years ago, I was hopeful about the future and held a positive attitude about my nation. I even wrote a newspaper column refuting those who believed the times were so woeful. But over the past two years, I have seen that belief that our society was an improvement on the past completely dissolve.There have been three main factors...

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Trump's Tower

6:10 PM Unknown

March 4, 2016.I wish I was a stand-up comedian today.I don't know if you heard, but last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump assured the crowd at a nationally televised debate that his "little fella" wasn't so little at all. That means the Donald Jr. was probably the fifth biggest dick on the stage last night.Already twice this week, Trump has backtracked on things he's said. First,...

Humor / Politics / Trump

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Hey y'all. My name is Dusty Vassey. I'm a reporter, blogger, humorist, composer, song writer, cartoonist and general disaster of a human being from Irwinville, Georgia. I'm the staff writer for The Ocilla Star newspaper in Ocilla, Georgia, and one day, while debating my editor about some subject or other, I said, "I'm just trying to be rational" or some such. She responded, "I think you're rational to a fault." The blog is a place where I can post opinion pieces and humorous stories that are too long for the paper or have previously appeared in the paper. Many of the posts are also fact-filled opinion pieces or speculative reports about news stories, particularly the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a famous mystery I've covered from the week she first went missing. I have been a regular guest on the podcast about the case, Up and Vanished, and I use the screen name ocillareporter on the UAV Discussion Board. I'm also known around my hometown as the "Irwinvillain" after my song of the same name, and I have a channel of music videos on YouTube if you're tired of enjoying pleasant sounds.

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