POST 1182 The Numbers* Here is What We Americans Want . 87% of Americans believe Social Security benefits should be maintained or increased 79% of Americans support raising (not cutting) taxes on the wealthy and big corporations 69% of Americans want Medicare For All (MFA) 63% of Americans believe abortion should be legal 53% of… [read more]
Emergency
POST 1181 Paramedics Aren’t Enough We all have to show up for this emergency. . Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is presented as a budget bill, but its 1,116 pages hide aggressively subversive things buried in its bulk that have nothing to do with budgets and everything to do with crushing our rights and our… [read more]
Sleight of Mouth
POST 1180 Bright Shiny Objects During the 2016 election campaign of Doñald* Trump we heard the audio recording of what became known as the Access Hollywood tape. In it Trump is heard bragging about trying to f*ck married women. He said, “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful… I just start kissing them. It’s like… [read more]
Memorial Day
POST 1072 This essay was originally posted on Memorial Day, 2012, with wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan and is offered today (with some updating) as a reminder of what this holiday – this holy day – is about. Our War Dead It was originally called Decoration Day, a formal day of remembrance of the… [read more]
Ugly
POST 1181 Hatred May 21, 2025 should have been just another beautiful spring day in Washington DC, but it was not. Instead, it was a horrible day of hate-fueled murder. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were staffers at the Israeli Embassy working on efforts to bring people together. They had fallen in love and were… [read more]
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
POST 1179 I recently ran across a post from election year 1996 and was struck yet again that “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 But the intensity, the rotten flavor does change and sometimes brings diabolical things, like… [read more]
Who Benefits?
POST 1178 Last Wednesday I showed you that “repugnant, organizationally illiterate, DUI Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that he is firing 20% of our flag officers [generals and admirals]” and that he “plans to eliminate legacy weapons and equipment programs.” I asked a critical question: Who will benefit from us hobbling our national… [read more]
Downhill
POST 1177 Deterioration During an ABC interview our president boldly and repeatedly embarrassed himself by claiming that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 terrorist gang member. Trump tried to prove it by showing a picture of Mr. Garcia’s left hand with “MS13” tattooed on his knuckles. But here’s the Snopes fact check article that exposes… [read more]
Dream Sequence v2.0 – For All Mothers
POST 1176 First The Big Bad News Yes, the Army has reported that there will be parade of explosive masculine military hardware and personnel to help Trump deal with his small genital low self-esteem. But that’s not the big, bad thing I’m focusing on in this dense forest of big, bad things. I heard yet… [read more]
Pictures of America
POST 1175 I’ll bet you remember those puzzles that asked you to identify what is missing from a picture. It might be a tree with a trunk that doesn’t touch the ground or a dog that’s missing a leg. Here’s a visual example from the Way-Back machine. As you can see, there are an elderly… [read more]
