Wow, it's been forever hasn't it? Well, life is a busy sort of thing and I get distracted and the like. I suppose making excuses really is wasted energy, so I won't.
One thing I have been thinking about doing is moving the blog. Not physically, err, not from walkuanfraid I should say, but rather to a different template. I've been with blogger since around 1999 or so, but to be honest I find it fairly bulky to work with. I also really have been drooling over wordpress lately, so that might be an option.
One thing that won't change, or shouldn't, is the address I'm using.
This webpage was created in 2001 as a way to unite people together in a common cause - speaking out and walking unafraid. Of course this doesn't just mean anyone. I created this outlet to be a place where people of like minds and like politics and like lives could connect, but then it just never went anywhere. I don't know if it ever will, but I do know that I still hope to use it as a connector, as something that unites people instead of divides. I know that as someone who has gone through a LOT in the last five years, I hope that walkunafraid.net will evolve and not stay in the stasis that it once did. Perhaps that is a metaphor for all that I've been doing or rather not doing in my life, it's difficult to say.
Can you believe it - it's been over a year since I last posted on this thing! Well, I think that since things have changed in a way that they have never changed before, I'm going to try to embrace walkunafraid.net and bring it up a little bit better. I may be expanding, I may not but I think it will be more active whether or not you can see it.
Once again, George W. Bush goes to prove just how willing he is to go to undermine the balances in this country by waiting until a recess to appoint John Bolton as UN Ambassador.
I'm not shocked. It's just really frustrating to see him go to any lengths to do what he wants to do, whether or not it is in the best interest of his country. When will fellow Americans, no matter what party preference, learn that he does NOT represent their best interests?
The political climate in the United States continues to make me uncomfortable. I suppose that it was the number one reason for wanting to run away to Costa Rica, secondly of course followed by True Love. It is amazing to me that circumstances have come around to where they are now, although if I had had the clearer vision... of one not blinded by what she thought was the Love of a Lifetime, I could have seen it coming.
That being said, there are many things afoot in the US right now. Karl Rove's alleged involvement in the Valerie Plame scandal, the choice of a conservative for Sandra Day O'Connor's position on the Supreme Court, and not to mention the CAFTA, which much like NAFTA isn't as bad as the detractors say, but is not nearly the right direction to go. It is a bit amusing that when NAFTA was in the works, so many people freaked out about it. Now CAFTA is here, and apparently those who freaked out before are really behind this one. I'm not sure why that is, but it sure smacks of pure politik.
Anyway, I'm going to see Idlewild a few times this fall and somehow that keeps me going. It'll be a little bit of Scotland right here in Chicago and Minneapolis and until I work my way back to Edinburgh, it'll do.
This makes me so frustrated. Especially the "Romeo and Juliet" clause portion. It's perplexing more than frustrating at first, because this is a country that is terrified of teaching it's children about safe sex. However, this clause, especially in a state like Kansas, is almost hypocritical in nature.
Is there anything that anyone can say against this country and it's policies that DOESN'T offend our "great leaders"? Yo, Dick, unless you are sitting there at Guantanemo, I don't think you really can be offended by AI's allegations. Perhaps you should take criticism a bit better, eh?
