Conrad Ilesia
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You Call Me a RINO Like It’s a Bad Thing. Content Warning.
Prologue Using pejorative terms against people with whom you disagree is nothing new, crass and uninformative. I A I was born and raised a southern yellow dog Democrat. It is only recently—in the grand scheme of things—that I changed political parties. Shortly after the “Joe the Plumber” street Q & A in the lead-up to the 2008 election, I began to examine my political values. I discovered that, on balance, I could no longer vote Democrat or belong to the Democratic Party. I voted McCain-Palin. More McCain than Palin but you can’t always pick your Uber driver. In 2012, I voted for Romney.
By Conrad Ilesiaabout a year ago in The Swamp
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My city spent a million dollars to build a sidewalk. They call it a hike and bike trail but it's really just a well-lit meandering sidewalk laid beside an equally meandering drainage ditch, nestled between the backs of fences of several middle class neighborhoods, roaming for roughly two miles between the splash pad and then deciding to abruptly end at the east high school parking lot. (Considering my city is entirely flat, it's impossible to hike the sidewalk, unless you climb up a light post off to the side.) Pesky city streets interrupt the flow of the trail, resulting in the occasional auto-pedestrian contest (The car usually wins.), shaking up the otherwise monotonous business of the city (The victim’s family usually wins.).
By Conrad Ilesiaabout a year ago in Motivation
