Author: Steve Ainslie

For someone looking to escape accountability for their own poor behavior, our society today offers a plethora of ready-made pseudo-psychological excuses. Just self-diagnose yourself as a victim based on what you’ve heard on a podcast or TikTok and you can now blame your “disease”/parents/ex/society…anyone but yourself. I don’t think people are much different today than…

On a recent Solo podcast, the topic was how the Covid pandemic affected solos. Having lived through the pandemic as a solo, I was interested to hear how others experienced the pandemic and societal isolation now that we’ve just passed the 5 year anniversary of lockdowns. Peter McGraw, the host said something that stuck with…

I am skeptical about counting on the government to solve our problems. My experience is that government usually responds too late and too insignificantly – long after I have dealt with (and suffered with) my dilemma for years – or even decades. I was listening to a podcast today when an example of this occurred….

There have been accusations and news reports that the Trump administration’s cuts to the Federal Workforce and Funding Programs are both devastating and inconsequential. I smell bullshit. Something isn’t adding up here. Opponents say the departments, positions, grants and funding cuts will be catastrophic resulting in deaths, disease, starvation, poverty and more. Then they say,…

Trump’s mass deportations and imprisonment of illegal immigrants (and any unfortunates who “mistakenly” get caught up in his overzealous deportation processes) feels unprecedented. Or, to be more precise,feel unprecedented in my lifetime. They may be new to me, but all it took was. little bit of reading for me to realize that mass deportations, chaotic…

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-i-mostly-admire/id1525936566?i=1000704954611 I am not going to thoroughly review the solution discussed in the podcast linked above. Instead, I encourage you to listen to it. I’ve written about gun violence in the US before. I’ve written about “lone wolf” shooters and about school shootings. But let’s face it – I don’t know shit about preventing shootings….

I was listening to a podcast discussing the growing wealth gap/income inequality between the average US household and the top .1%. It is huge and getting even bigger. Whatever. This is nothing new. The poor have always been getting f**ked over People wax poetic about the glory days of the US in the 1950s when…

I was listening to the news today in which a reporter pointed out another glaringly obvious hypocritical statement from a politician. The thought occurred to me: “Nobody who acts hypocritically cares.” When I was a teenager, I began to pay attention to hypocritical behavior and words expressed by religious leaders, parents, politicians, teachers and other…

At the end of February, my weight had risen to 148 lbs and I decided that I needed to do something about it. I am happy to report that 2 months later, I have dropped back down to 135 lbs. This is pretty much my ideal weight. I was here a few years ago before…

I don’t approve of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, it’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and its ongoing war on Ukraine (then again, per usual, nobody asked me). Now, 3 years later, after the US has given more than $128 billion to support Ukraine’s defense, I find myself thinking: “This is not my war.”…