For Flying Spaghetti Monster knows what reason, I had this old campaign song from a series of late 1990s-early 2000s commercials for Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster stuck in my head during a workout today. “🎶Bud Shuuuuster is building for out fuuutuuuuure!🎶” (N.B. I grew up in NW PA and went…

Society, at least the one we live in here in America, doesn’t like when a “relationship” lasts too long. To most, a relationship is simply a testing ground that determines if you are ready for The Choice. The choice to get the government and paperwork involved in a happy, thriving…

Twenty years ago today I slid (not strapped on; this is important) a pair of shoes on and got ready to run my first ever marathon. I wasn’t even aware how much I didn’t know about running long distance races but about two hours later, I learned the hard way…

So, yesterday I felt like absolute ass. I went to my normal (extremely late) bedtime but then ended up sleeping most of the day away. I debated whether I would do anything in the exercise-realm at all but finally decided a run at the gym would be better than nothing…

The Republican Party has won the popular vote for the Presidency ONCE in the past 32 years. And that one occasion was after 9/11 when most of the country was still drunk on patriotic (and misguided) fervor. This country leans liberal. Not liberal like every other industrialized country in the…