Bio
My life has been episodic, so it's hard to know even where to start. I ran away from home six times during my youth to see the world. The first three trips were the usual rail pass & hostel tours of Europe that should be a rite of passage for every kid. I rode a motorcycle from Washington DC to Santiago, Chile on my fourth trip. I did Asia sans motorcycle on the fifth ("doing" a continent is traveller's lingo). I attempted to cross Australia by bicycle on my final trip before deciding the place was a big, bloody bore. There's enough here for a lengthy autobiography that I won't write today.
My work resume is so full of holes that you could put it on a player piano. A few highlights: professional motorcyclist, IRS agent, auto mechanic, assistant nurse, pimp (it was an accident!), landscape foreman, union organizer, novelist, and high school teacher. At the moment I'm in one of my self-imposed monastic cycles while I contemplate another change of careers.
I joined Ricochet to network with other conservatives. I consider myself a culture warrior for the good guys.
~Paules


Re: Don’t Vote!-It Just Encourages the RINOs
I have a terrible feeling that the results of this election will be moot. At some point the debt crisis is going to pitch the world economy into the abyss. Our professional political class seems oblivious to the crisis. Eventually events will overwhelm us, and then it's every man for himself. I wish I could maintain even a glimmer of hope, but I can't. Tell me what difference the Supreme Court is going to make when the government is broke and can't afford to enforce it's dictates. Anyone? The only silver lining I can see is that I'll no longer be morally obligated to obey the laws of an increasingly capricious government. Prepare yourselves. The worst is yet to come.