by ROBERT ZERR | Apr 7, 2024 | The Soapbox
No, that’s not a typo. We’ll get to why that is so in a bit, but in the meantime, I am still coming to grips with the fact that I have, it seems, been indoctrinated without my knowledge. Oh, I can hear some of you out there saying, “Well, duh, Robb! You didn’t notice...
by admin | Jan 12, 2024 | The Soapbox
As a society, we like to think that we are always advancing. The old days seem antiquated and often silly. Instead, we believe that today is way better than yesterday, and certainly way better than it used to be. I mean, who would prefer a black and white TV instead...
by ROBERT ZERR | Feb 1, 2021 | The Soapbox
We’re coming up on a year now since the stay-at-home orders began. In that time, I have been out of the house (i.e., beyond the street in front), a total of 14 times. Most of these were out of absolute necessity because of family health issues. Otherwise,...
by admin | Jan 23, 2021 | The Soapbox
There’s an awful lot of hoopla right now about freedom of speech, the clampdown by social media companies on certain striations of public discourse, and the role media companies have in our seemingly fundamental right to freedom of speech. First, let’s...
by admin | Dec 17, 2018 | The Soapbox
As I’ve been doing research as of late on Ancestry.com, I can’t help but think we’re a bunch of pansies. My relatives marched across hostile country to establish farms in the Midwest, fought the British toe to toe at places like Yorktown and marched...
by admin | Sep 17, 2018 | Randomalities, The Soapbox
A new movie called First Man is about the Apollo 11 mission as seen through the eyes of Neil Armstrong. Before the movie even made it to theaters, flag-waving crazy people have been up in arms about the fact that the moment when Neil plants the flag on the moon...
by admin | Jul 16, 2018 | The Soapbox
I’m not quite sure when things in our society went so askew. Maybe I’m just getting old, but it seems that as of late, we have shifted our scale or what is right and wrong to fit whatever moment we are in. There seems to be no absolutes anymore. And that...
by admin | Mar 26, 2018 | The Soapbox
There’s a lot of experts in this world of ours these days. I see them on TV, on LinkedIn, and of course, our favorite soapbox, Facebook. They seem to have all the answers. Some even pretend to be thought leaders, whatever the hell that means! Lately, everyone...
by admin | Mar 5, 2018 | The Soapbox
Once again we’re back at each other’s throats about gun control. If you think this is an anti-gun or pro-gun RobZerrvation, think again. Blissfully in the middle of the political spectrum, I see all sides of the argument but adhere to none singularly. In...
by admin | Feb 19, 2018 | The Soapbox
Another week, another senseless mass shooting followed by the usual call on one side for thoughts and prayers and on the other, gun control. In this case, a school was shot up by a kook and there are additional calls for arming teachers. Next week it could at a mall,...
