Thursday, January 21, 2016
SOCIETAL ISSUES
As you can see, this is the very first post of a brand new blog and the plan is to cover a wide variance of social issues extremely critical to our society as a whole.
Obviously topics such as gun control which go hand in hand with the never ending mass shootings which plague society, not to mention the role of the NRA will be a major target of my comments. Also, police brutality I can promise is at the very top of my list. The heroin epidemic along with prescription pain pill abuse is another. Also, addiction in general.
Two more problems would be bullying and government corruption. The criminal justice system needs overhauled. Now it seems, cyberbullying via anonymous twitter accounts among high school age students is yet another.
The list goes on and on. I've had several college classes pertaining to these issues not to mention I keep up to date with current events not only locally where I live in Youngstown, Ohio, but regionally, nationally and even globally to an extent as well. I currently have two other active blogs both pertaining to sports, however I want to make it known right here and now my interests and knowledge these days go way beyond the sports realm.
You could say I would like to be known as another George Will you might say. Now before anyone laughs or scoffs at that notion, I'm in no way even remotely comparing myself to him as far as his experience, expertise and what not. He's sort of an entity unto himself. But he has always been a major league baseball expert all the while writing about a wide variety of news stories for the Washington Post.
When I get rolling, I can write pretty damn good commentary myself. Since this is my blog, written published and edited by no one other than myself, I feel free to mention my inspiration totally and completely comes from the memory of my beautiful precious girlfriend, Denise "Nece" Skeen who died many years too soon last Jan. 30.
DAVE BURKEY
daveywriter@yahoo.com
As you can see, this is the very first post of a brand new blog and the plan is to cover a wide variance of social issues extremely critical to our society as a whole.
Obviously topics such as gun control which go hand in hand with the never ending mass shootings which plague society, not to mention the role of the NRA will be a major target of my comments. Also, police brutality I can promise is at the very top of my list. The heroin epidemic along with prescription pain pill abuse is another. Also, addiction in general.
Two more problems would be bullying and government corruption. The criminal justice system needs overhauled. Now it seems, cyberbullying via anonymous twitter accounts among high school age students is yet another.
The list goes on and on. I've had several college classes pertaining to these issues not to mention I keep up to date with current events not only locally where I live in Youngstown, Ohio, but regionally, nationally and even globally to an extent as well. I currently have two other active blogs both pertaining to sports, however I want to make it known right here and now my interests and knowledge these days go way beyond the sports realm.
You could say I would like to be known as another George Will you might say. Now before anyone laughs or scoffs at that notion, I'm in no way even remotely comparing myself to him as far as his experience, expertise and what not. He's sort of an entity unto himself. But he has always been a major league baseball expert all the while writing about a wide variety of news stories for the Washington Post.
When I get rolling, I can write pretty damn good commentary myself. Since this is my blog, written published and edited by no one other than myself, I feel free to mention my inspiration totally and completely comes from the memory of my beautiful precious girlfriend, Denise "Nece" Skeen who died many years too soon last Jan. 30.
DAVE BURKEY
daveywriter@yahoo.com
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