Party Politics in the Mountain State

Just this amazing morning, I read this asinine Op-Ed Piece in the Marshall University campus newspaper, The Parthenon, claiming that Democrats in and from West Virginia have shown proven leadership.

Here is my reply:

Firstly, if one countenances the facts that West Virginia's state government doubled in size in the last fifteen years and her citizens see much less for this growth, that West Virginians' average incomes stand about 75% the national average, that while most states since 1965 nearly tripled their per capita income West Virginia did not even doubled hers, that West Virginia's ranking dropped consistently from 30th to 49th in the last 74 years (thank goodness for Mississippi), that West Virginia's economic freedom settles dead last in the Union, that we have the worst wealth equality in these United States, and that West Virginia ranks at the bottom of lists, such as, State Business Tax Climate Index, State Competitiveness Report, State Technology and Science Index, New Economy Index, State Liability Systems Ranking, then West Virginia's Democrats have led to those things which you approve.

Secondly, for one to believe that a West Virginia state democrat and a national-level democrat process a similar political philosophy, one mistakes sadly. Democrats in the mountain state are mostly big government and ever-reaching social controllers, if they belonged to the republican camp, they would be branded, as "Compassionate Conservatives"; the same as the current Administration, which so many love to decry. Our tragedy mounts the stage by our state politicians gallantly storming the set lacking the brain capacity to be what West Virginia needs most right now, pragmatists. No party has a monopoly on Freedom, Equality, Leadership; they all share, for the better or worse.

Finally, how is a truly concerned citizen of a state, as West Virginia, and a nation, as United States of America, to take what simpleton excrements that rest in this type of column and still stand against the grand slayers of a myriad of governments--the willful ignorance of facts and the myopia of the never-ceasing delusions in party politics?


I cannot stop single-handedly this stupidity, yet I continue onwards. Party loyalty ruins the ideas of the individual and strips him of his liberty and humanity, making him a slave to the collective.

How Far Does a Falling Object Fall

For all those of a curious temperament or whoever pondered a basic question in physics, "How far does a falling object fall?", I have your answer. Firstly, I state the question posed my professor and then I followed, directly, with my textbookish answer:

Here is my reply:

How does an object behave when it is launched horizontally? (Which hits first, the launched or the dropped ball?)

The acceleration due to gravity, noted as g, of said object remains the same whether dropped or thrown--upwards, downwards, or sideways. Thusly, g depends not on the horizontal throw.

The said object, when thrown horizontally, experiences velocity in two distinct directions, one horizontally and the other vertically. The horizontal velocity stays at a constant speed (taking for a moment that said object undergoes no recognizable resistance from the surrounding air) and the vertical occurs from the acceleration due to gravity acting on said object at 9.8 m/s2.

Ergo, if a ball--launched or dropped--befell from a given height, its lag time until it reaches the impact with the ground below would in both instances be matching, due solely to the g. Note that the horizontal acceleration affects not the g;--that is, the ball falls, nonetheless, despite its horizontal travel. More distance by the thrown ball, yes, is covered, yet the additional distance belongs entirely to course of the ball’s horizontal trajectory.

Succinctly, acceleration due to gravity g remains the equal on either the launched or the dropped ball, so the ball reaches the ground in the same allotted time given.


I feel this answer I am be redundant, yet I hope for forceful. It was for a classes on the physical universe. Not much else to say, but that I hope you learnt something or better yet you already ruminated the question to discover the truth of the matter.