Sean Reiser

I can tell you my first "political memory", it was January 21, 1981, I was 11 years old. When was came to school that day TV sets were in the classroom. By mid day we were watching Ronald Reagan's Inauguration. I remember the Pomp and Circumstance around the event. As it was a Catholic school we prayed for the President, and for the Hostages released from Iran that day. Where President Reagan wasn't addressing the students directly, I do feel I learned a lot that day. I also learned a lot about the meaning of the Presidency some from Reagan's speech, some from the teacher afterwards.

As we've all been enjoying the high of the Apollo 11 anniversary, I've gotten to thinking about where the space program is today and were it is going.

My parents were born in a world in a world where man hadn't walked on the moon and had often commented how they wouldn't thought they've seen it in their lifetimes. As they took me, at the age of 1 month and placed me in front of a TV to watch the lunar landing, little could they imagine that 40 years later, I would have no memories of man leaving the orbit of Earth.

OK, I suspect this may cause some problems for me in the future, but I really don't care, I've been carrying this post inside of me for a while and I'm going to let it out. Through a series of retweets I would up staring at the twitter feed of someone who seems to be homophobic and angry. I engaged him earlier today with the following tweet:

I know I'm going to kick myself later for asking this. @REDACTED if a person isn't sleeping with you, why do you care who they sleep with?

Was turned onto this article from the Concord Monitor which states:

In May, President Obama signed a bill that will limit some of the worst practices of credit card companies that have been raising rates with little reason and without notice and charging obscene late fees. The bill also requires that banking regulators study the practice of using information about where a person shops to assessing credit worthiness.