PonkaBlog

Month: September 2020

Total 29 Posts

Cause and Effect

As you know, I’m a big believer in personal accountability.  Maybe it’s my mid-western upbringing but I believe that I alone am responsible for whatever, good or bad, results from my actions.  People doing stupid things and then whining because they don’t like the results really irk me.  The riots

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Spokesman for the People

I’m always a bit confused when the media goes to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to get the viewpoint of the Black Community.  Unless I’m mistaken, one or two people don’t speak for an entire race.  In fact, they’re no more qualified to speak for all black people than I

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Anonymous Sources

There was a time when the media deserved our trust.  We believed that they carefully researched things to find facts that led to the truth.  When you turned on the news or opened a paper, you trusted that you were going to get the truth, backed up by facts. There

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Some Black Lives Matter

What do all these phrases have in common? Black Lives Matter All Black Lives Matter White Lives Matter Blue Lives Matter All Lives Matter The Entirety of Humanity is Significant If you said that these are all true, you are right. Any reasonable person would agree with you. No rational

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Use of Force

I might be the only person in the United States who feels this way, but I believe that police officers should use more force. Because, if the police used more force, fewer police interactions would result in someone dying. The more time a suspect isn’t restrained properly, the more chances

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Mask Shaming

The more I think about it, the more I have a problem with people thinking they’re better than someone else because they wear a mask whenever they go outside. Presumably to protect others. Trigger Warning: For those of you who are apparently upset by logic and reason, I’m going to

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Two Men

I’ve talked with two black men this week.  Both are educated and in the upper-middle class.  Both are about the same age. Both have successful jobs.  Both live in California.  One is a Liberal and the other is a Conservative. The Liberal believes in the message and agenda of the

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Buffaloed

Consider this phrase: buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Yup.  That’s an actual sentence.  Now, I’m going to add some punctuation and capitalization. Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That’s probably not a lot clearer. The sentence means: “Buffalo from Buffalo, NY, that are confused by

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