Skyler Saunders
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A Dear Don Letter
Dear Donnie Trump, The reality show known as your Presidency has been canceled after just one season. Bummer, I know. But your out-of-touch, unprincipled, cognitively hollow, intellectually inept, morally flaccid approach to governing the United States of America has reached its end.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in The Swamp
Damp 2021
If my prescribed drugs would allow me to imbibe, I’d have a double Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey every day of this first month of the new year. That doesn’t mean my mouth (or year, for that matter) will be dry, it’s just that the “damp” will be from my sweat, not my choice of beverage! Our family gifted ourselves a high-end stationary bicycle for Christmas. I’ve already charted a schedule to ride at least a half an hour, six days each week.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Longevity
You’re My Friend
In a Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, I had been staying in a facility at the VAMC for homeless veterans. The program I had to do or either be booted from the hospital grounds where I had been staying was Silver Spoons. It consisted of feeding older veterans meals. I accepted this charge only based on facing the alternative of being out in the cold.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Serve
Sweet Chariot
Carlinton Kneedham ran his hand over the smooth surface of the aircraft, illuminated only by a lantern in the barn. Alighting suddenly from its perch, a barn owl painted the ebony canvas of the sky as it flew towards the stars. Carlinton and his brother Valas had been putting the finishing touches on the aircraft to make it ready to fly through the sky the next morning, despite it being obviously heavier than air.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Wander
Reason First: Southside Strangler-Timothy W. Spencer
DNA evidence is a two-way street. On the one hand, it can demonstrate that someone in lockdown should be freed. On the other hand, it can damn someone to the electric chair. Both instances are acts of justice. In Timothy W. Spencer’s case, it was both.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Bike Path Killer- Altemio Sanchez
For the murders of Linda Yalem (22), Majane Mazur (32), and Joan Diver (45), Altemio Sanchez received a 75 year prison sentence. Also known as the “Bike Path Rapist,” Sanchez left a dozen or more girls and women in his horrific trail of blood and fright.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Death Nurse- Genene Jones
Killing babies who are absolutely defenseless and have no clue about the world is particularly heinous. What Genene Jones of San Antonio, Texas did from 1981 to 1982 was to spike the amount of infant deaths in the hospital she worked. As a licensed vocational nurse (LVN), she was supposed to take care of these young children in desperate need. Instead, she subverted that call to action and pumped the infants full of lethal doses of drugs, causing them to have heart attacks, or stop breathing.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Unabomber- Dr. Theodore Kaczynski
Leopold and Loeb and Edmund Kemper dispel the myth that clever killers don’t exist. Dr. Theodore John Kacynski is no different. Named the “Unabomber” from “UNinversity, and Airline BOMber,” from an FBI profile of UNABOM for the unknown bomber, Kaczynski started creating explosive materials in the 1970s, but would evade identification and capture until 1995 when Kaczynski’s own brother alerted authorities after he noticed the bomber’s handwriting, used to draft a manifesto, matched his brother’s.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Decent Debutante
First off, let me slap 2020 in the face. Ahhh...that felt good. Now, onto 2021. I see you lurking, year. Come into the light. There you are. You don’t have to hide. And already, you are showing signs of being unruly. You saw what I just did to last year. Do you want the same outcome?
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Motivation
Reason First: The Atlanta Child Murderer- Wayne Williams
From 1979 to 1981, a monster preyed exclusively on black children. Was it a Klansman wanting to wipe out enough young lives to satisfy his hatred for African Americans, or was it an unassuming wannabe music executive who shared his victims’ skin color? Surprisingly for most, it was the latter.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
The Form of Generosity
I was going through philosopher Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s book The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out (2012) this past week, and it just made me wonder about the Greeks, the Romans, and those who lived in the Middle Ages. In the book, Dr. Peikoff evaluates different periods in history according to literature, science, education and politics, but what were the people who lived during these periods really like? Were they hedonists, thirsty for thrills, without concern for anyone else, pursuing their own gratification? Or were they subdued, allowing themselves to be trampled on just so they could say they sacrificedm themselves in the name of altruism? The questions lead me to wonder about us, too. As I walk through the stores, looking at the winking lights, and see people tossing change into a kettle like a wishing well, I think who are we now?
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Humans
