Friday, December 9, 2005

Tookie

While it is unusual, ah-hem, for The Voice to take the side of the underdog, I bear in mind that killing is NOT the solution for killers. If any result ever existed to show the benefits of incarceration, then Stan "Tookie" Williams is a key example. If you're a California citizen, urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to grant clemancy.

Save Tookie

Friday, April 22, 2005

GOD SAVE THE POPE

The Voice extends his best wishes to (nee' Cardinal John Ratzenger) Pope Benedict XVI as he prepares and begins to lead Christ's one billion Catholics.

While disagreeing with many, if not most, of the "moral" demands of The Vatican, among some as the pivotal reasons I left Catholicism, I respect the awesome political power long wielded by the papacy and wish no undeserved harm come to them or theirs.

Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among sinners
Blessed is the fruit of they womb, Jesus. . .

The Voice

Thursday, February 3, 2005

I'm Impressed

Obviously, The Voice has been on sabbatical. For this I apologize. But it is about to get worse. With a residency move in the works in the near future (I mean, like 9 days and my 2500 sf house isn't anywhere near being packed for lack of boxes. . .note to self, comment on the stinginess of retailers who now compact and bind their old boxes so people cannot get them to move with) my time is totally absorbed in finding a place and moving there with all my clutter and my son.

So today while playing tiddily winks with manhole covers at work, a colleague and I stumbled upon a site operated by an early twenty-something mechanical engineering student from Maryland, Chris Spicer. I've now spent the better part of six hours of company time reading his very entertaining musings. It also gives me hope that the generations coming up after me can ably carry-on coherent, sarcastic, intelligent, witty, charming, and inciting thoughts. I'm impressed, Mr. Spicer. Not that my endorsement means more than Dr. Atkins ('ghost) munching away on Cheetos on a billboard at a fat farm, but you've restored some of the hope that all in lost and we're on our way to a Paris Hilton-like mentality with the generation that is supposed to fund our social security.

Anyway, since I'm still at work, I should do something remotely related. I'd run outside real quick for a smoke but with Columbus' new city wide smoking ban in affect, I'd have to run the goddamned Boston Marathon in order to have a drag. And since I smoke, running that particular event is not in the best interest of my heart, lungs, or future love-making ability.

Thank you Chris Spicer, for a refreshing respite from work and an optimistic hope for the new members of the voices of the disenfranchised. Should he ever stumble upon my blog here, I hope you don't mind that I am including your website within this blog. Consider yourself ENDORSED. (God, I hope he's a Democrat! I could soil my reputation!)

www.cbspicer.com

The Voice
Nick Yaekle
Columbus, Ohio USA
February 3, 2005

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