Hello everyone. This past Sunday I attended the Town and Gown event in LA as a “newbie” and immediately joined Ricochet Monday morning. To date I have never posted, do not “tweet” nor “facebook” as old habits are hard to break so to say. (I guess deep down inside I’m still a bit old-school, so […]

I don’t have a proper introduction to this post (or obviously, a good title), so allow me to get around that by simply saying that I recognize that a consequence of our growing membership and format makes it hard to read every post and engage in discussion of each topic. Good material falls off the […]

I rented a comedy from Netflix this week, called “Over Her Dead Body.” Despite the title, it’s a light-hearted rom-com, and was pretty funny. It should be noted that the topic of the movie is completely apolitical — it’s not as if the story involved a politician or took place in Washington. At the 1:04 […]

On a philosophical level, my perception of reality is very important to me, so conceptually hallucinogens, or anything else that would interfere with that, specifically hallucinogens, terrify me. When I was a kid, I remember my mother (who, for the record, once smelled marijuana at a party and no that’s not a euphemism) talked about people, […]

The title is (slightly) hyperbolic. Over the last decade or so, I had gone from someone who cared very deeply about music, to someone who had pretty much stopped listening to it altogether. Pop music had become a denuded wasteland of stripperfied bubble gum lyrics, hip hop had followed, country seemed more interested in looks […]

I say, “our party,” because let’s face it, if you are a conservative or a small-government libertarian, the Republicans are all you’ve got. So behold, Pittsburgh News Station Broadcasts Workers’ Live Reactions to Changes to Their Insurance Policies Under Obamacare: Preview Open