Fighting With Despair

Admin/ March 14, 2015/ Rants

  Some of you may know this, but others do not.  I have had an ongoing battle with depression for most of my life.  That feeling of hopelessness called despair, is even now, a constant companion.  Fear of failure stalks me at every turn.  The feeling that I need to succeed to be happy is my one ambition.  But deep

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Jarlaxle Baenre

Admin/ March 12, 2015/ Books

  Surprised? I did warn you I intended to write a blog post on him.   This post is dedicated and about one of my favorite fictional characters of all time and quite possibly the greatest example of magnificent bastard in fantasy. (Even if his brother Gromph constantly outsmarts him)   Jarlaxle Baenre is a Drow Elf that is quite

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On a Favorite Series of Mine

Admin/ March 10, 2015/ Books

  This week, I got the fantastic chance to delve once more into the newest installment of one of my favorite Authors of all: RA Salvatore. His Legend of Drizzt series which is now 30 books strong (and counting) has kept me captivated for years when I first jumped into Homeland and was shown the dark intrigue of the Drow.

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Questions to my Readers

Admin/ March 8, 2015/ Rants

  So I have decided every so often to write a Blog Post to gain feedback from my viewers.  This is one of those posts. I seek to write about an assortment of topics that are relevant in today’s world as well as provide insight into ideas that are important to everyone.  I also seek to educate about issues that

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Ways People Try to Make the World a Better Place That Do Not Work

Admin/ March 6, 2015/ Rants

  There are lots of people who in the world who strive to improve the world.  sadly, many of them are misinformed about how to go about doing so.  Today I will outline these ways that people are failing to improve the world. The first way I will outline, is the person who refuses to use plastic bags at the

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Purim and what it means this year

Admin/ March 4, 2015/ Rants

  Tonight begins the Jewish Holiday of Purim.  Quite frankly this is the greatest Jewish holiday ever.  We read a special biblical text called the Magillah and are commanded to get completely intoxicated beforehand.  The reason for this is so that as we rad the story of Esther, we cannot tell villain from hero. For those of you unfamiliar with

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New Lessons from a Video Game that Defined my Childhood

Admin/ March 2, 2015/ Video Games

  There are three video games I played frequently as a child that could easily be described by this title, but of the three, one of them really stands out.  As a child, there were quite a few things I got out of the game that I will spend this post describing.  9/11 was still fresh in my mind and

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Silence is not the Answer

Admin/ February 28, 2015/ Political, Rants

  Over the last few months, political issues have exploded all over social media as well as news and comedy media.  While I certainly have problems with the bias of the information as it is presented, I prefer information that I am forced to read through very carefully over complete silence. I have seen an alarmingly high number of people

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Vaccines

Admin/ February 26, 2015/ Rants

  I know I am super late to the party on this issue, but I want to offer my perspective on this one.  Being on the spectrum makes this a very important issue to me. Lately, Vaccines have become a major issue in politics in case you were not aware.  There are people claiming that Vaccines cause Autism (and other

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Crossroads

Admin/ February 24, 2015/ Rants

  Every so often a day appears in your life that has the ability to change it drastically, either for better or worse.  Today is one of those days today.  The most important interview of my life looms and the chance of me to cast of the shackles that have been keeping me down potentially is in sight. I cannot

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