Vladi Wizard's Musings

I am re-entering this log. After all the time I spent on it, it really frustrates me to no end that Yahoo kept buggering it up. I think because it did not like me copying in a definition of heroism from another website, so instead of doing that I will just pop in a couple links (since they all say basically the same time... I am sure that you will get the idea). * snipping out of first two paragraphs of definition and explaination of why I did this re-do. Basically, thanks to the comments by The Manipulator and Jaime S * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heroism I still think, even with the broadening of the field of what a hero is, that the term is way over used and given too freely to describe people, especially in regards to 1c (above). Yes, we like to think that motherhood is an admirable achievement, but we too often forget that just because a child comes from a woman’s womb, that woman is not automatically a great parent. It is often s...

Been a while since I popped anything of any ‘importance’ in my blog here. Of course, some people would say that to this point, I never have! Anyway, thought that while sitting at work, I may as well get onto the keyboard and hammer these keys a bit, if for no other reason then to let people know that I am still the outspoken and opinionated cuss that I am. I have been thinking, for some time now, about the word “hero” and how over used it is. I really haven’t done much on that, because it seems to have been settling down, since attention has been being pulled away from the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts, to the political and economic theatre that we find ourselves in at this time. I suppose, in that regards, presidential candidate, Senator John S McCain is often called a hero, because of his service to his country as a naval aviator, and his subsequent time spent as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton during the Viet Nam conflict. I am not one to say anything about such service, b...