The R3dragon’s Blog

Last Saturday, on the spur of the moment, I went with my beautiful mate to a hair salon to cut off the excess hair that apparently made my image look “shaggy” or “scary long.” My views on hair have wavered from being obsessive about my hair (as in it being my symbol of freedom & [...]

I’ve been considering the last two days about changing my route to & from work. It seems like with all things these days, in order to invoke change you must have two incentives.
I’m talking about changing my daily commute from how I do it now (by car) to how I should do it by light [...]

Having watched the Sunday morning politics shows followed by a blur of commercials I was struck by an idea in the shower this morning.
As consumers we’re treated by even the biggest companies with the most respect. Their profit comes from our wallets thus the pitch is to create products and services that benefits its customers.
However, [...]

This my 100th post on this blog!
Since March of last year I’ve been posting regularly on either this blog or my Sapporo blog. Blogging has really been a great experience for me and I hope that I’ve improved. I hope to continue to improve my posts and continue to post regularly.
At this junction, I’d like [...]

Almost daily now our lives, in the first world, have been reminded that an attack on our livelihood is not only imminent, but perhaps expected according to supposed homeland security authorities with biting hunches. The thought that terrorism could strike me seems more like a inconvenience to my relatively posh lifestyle, rather then a threat [...]

The fallout over the President’s press conference spilled over some more in yesterday’s Sunday Morning News Circuits. It seems like while the White House Administration staff are more like firefighters trying to put out little anti-war flip-flopper GOP members. De facto Repubs are not only beginning to see the light (as they watch the US [...]

Yeah it’s one of those ominous Friday the 13ths.
It started with a thunder storm which rocked the town.The freeways were pretty clear this morning too.
Politiks. Like the president took a giant rock and threw it into the Nation’s pond of controversy. Sorry if I keep rambling on about it, but these events just pile up [...]

Much like telling somebody what is truth and what is fictional, the president has come out this morning to tell you and me what the debate is *really* about.
As a result, sometimes the debate over Iraq is cast as a disagreement between those who want to keep our troops in Iraq and those who want [...]

Hey.. Who runs this country anyway? I look at leaders of other countries and say, jee if their people choose, they could not only oust the leader, but they could oust the ruling party. According to a document in our country, the power is distributed between the president, the court, and us (or so we [...]

How can one put wind energy, conservation, recreation, pleasure boating, and sporting all together and make it work? It seems, misleadingly, that to be green you must skip out on the fun stuff. This weekend a revelation for me and perhaps the members of the sailing crew found out that sailing provides all that and [...]