About Me

 

About me:
             This is Richard McLaughlin though I prefer Rick to be called Rick, I am a 27 year old college graduate with a degree in Political Science still taking classes because I find the information offered in them to be useful for my future profession which is investigative journalism I’m from Florida with a love for history, politics, the darker parts of human psychology, movies, anime, and prefer radio to TV.

Where getting off on the wrong foot. This isn’t about me, this is about you, you and me, or really the parts of me that are relevant to information I post to you. This is about the parts of me relevant to the blog. This is my resume. This is me making the case about why you should listen to anything I say or recommend. Let’s get started.

But then again lots of people have a degree, plenty of them are complete idiots. Knowledge is useless without wisdom, and wisdom comes from life experiences, usually rough ones. So here’s why. I’m the best at what I do. What is it what I do? I apply reason to intuition. I size up situations and see them for what they are, I look deep into the world and into people, and see things for how they truly are it’s a gift. I do this because I combine the low brow and the highbrow. If you don’t know the low brow is the gutter, its smut, its raunchy comedies and bloody action movies, its lessons learned when hitchhiking. Highbrow is the arts, its reading books not comics, its reading

 I’m very good at what I do, I’m not better than you but most likely I’m better at this skill than you mainly because I had to learn it. It was sink or swim.

Before I go on this not meant to be whining. This is meant to be my personal resume of why you should listen to me and in my experience very few life lessons come from pleasant experiences. I’m not trying to get you to feel sorry for but rather informing you where I learned how the world actually is as opposed to how we would like it to be.

Those from a young age. I went to an “alternative school” basically a step above a reform school. To sum it up it was horrible. The teachers were usually people who couldn’t get jobs in public schools, some I suspect because I violent acts against students. The students usually came in two categories, they were mentally disabled, or were delinquent to some degree usually coming from horrible family situation, and I came from the latter. I learned many things there. Even though I curse being sent there I can’t help but be grateful for what I learned. The importance of brotherhood and friendship which forms very easily when you know that those in charge don’t especially like or care about you. You learn that the old blood is thicker than water argument doesn’t really hold weight when your family has left you to rot in hell but your friends whom you are not related to are fighting for you and you for them.

With an environment like this you can expect that I have many bad influences and made many bad decisions. But guess what I survived them. I survived them and learned very important lessons. I got to tell you, you can learn a lot from hitchhiking, who will pick you up who won’t, who will tell you they’re going to Walmart just to you’ll go with them because they’ll feel safer with a guy when they go to their drug deal. There are learned very quickly that I couldn’t just be a normal teenager, I when I saw the car surrounded several gang members I had to light up a cigarillo put up my hoodie and pretend to be a stone cold gangster I any of us were getting out of there alive. Just to clarify I’m not stone cold or a gangster, but for that moment I had to be. It was a lie front, I’m not bragging about being tough or even saying I am, I’m saying I’m good at sizing up a situation in a very short amount of time and doing what I can to resolve it.

After incidents like this I took a VERY hard look at myself and where I was going which was as slow road to nowhere. I got very serious about what I wanted for myself. I wanted to leave my mark on the world. I wanted to matter. I wanted to get into writing and investigative journalism. I found that the skills that I was forced to learn as a kid go very well with my direction. I found I was very good in piecing together why people vote the why they do. Recently for class assignment I snuck through to the center of the Bernie sanders at More House College. Only the first 50 or so people with press passes could get through and although I had a press pass didn’t get there early enough. So I snuck though where the crowd was heavy on dividing line. If I hadn’t learned and practiced this skill earlier in life. I then used my skill that I utilized many times growing up to get to the center of the crowd, the skill is bluffing and I’m good at it. I kept yelling saying that I was looking for a fellow member of my press team asking in anyone had seen Quinn. People fell for it and I got to the center.

I predicted that both Sanders and Trump would come out on top in the primaries which if you look at the news is happening. I predicted that the Iraq war would end much like the Vietnam War ended, with America leaving but the division coming home to America. If you look at how US police force has militarized and the recent police shootings and resulting riots I think that I wasn’t that far off. If you can predict a fight breaking out between to people with a little education it’s not hard to see it happen at a much larger macro level.

I’m very good at debating people and getting them to contradict themselves. I’m good because I know how to employ both lowbrow and highbrow methods and methodology in my life taking what’s best from both of them.

Please don’t think I’m bragging. I’m neither proud nor ashamed of my life, it’s not good or bad it just is. I’m telling you this because it’s on me to show that I am a worthwhile source before you invest anytime reading what I have to say.