i can't help myself

Once in a while I like to write about something that falls into the realm of politics. Like my recent post on foreign ownership of American property.

However I do try to be careful not to reveal my personal stand on these matters. Of course that is sometimes due to the position merely being one of degrees.

I often, in life outside of the Ordeal, say things just to spark thinking on the part of the listener. It seems a lot of people have firm ideas about things and are allergic to thoughts that don't support these ideas.

Nowadays, I sometimes think of my great great grandparents, immigrants from Italy and Germany. Fleeing homelands that held no future for them, living with other immigrants in poor conditions until they got their start, taking jobs that were at the bottom of the ladder and working their way up, living among people who didn't want them around.

It is easy to think about them again because Ohio is filled with people who are doing the same thing.