POST 1296 I’ve omitted a number of posts over the past weeks due to the overwhelming gift of caring for my wife in her last months.You may be assured that our 58 years together – 60 if you count our time dating – went by in an unfathomable flash, both in real time and lately… [read more]
What Smart People Are Saying
POST 1294 Your Sunday Review of Commentary From Inae Oh of Mother Jones: Anyway, back to negotiations with Iran—and the Obama-era inspections that Trump broke and are now apparently returning. Anyone else see a theme here? The big mouth spews his demeaning accusations, he spews his lies, then he at last finds out he really… [read more]
Who Owns the Constitution?
POST 1293 Quote Of The Week This is from Jamelle Bouie’s essay, The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution. But if we hope to recover and revitalize our democracy, we must start to think as citizens with duties, obligations and the sovereign power to make our world anew. This Supreme Court, with its black robed,… [read more]
Where Are We?
POST 1292 David and Goliath Today In Timothy Snyder’s recent post, Sky Defense: Bringing it Home, focused on the terrible war in Ukraine and the undefinable courage of that Ukrainian David incrementally slaying the evil Goliath of Russia, he wrote, By resisting Russia, Ukrainians are defending what is perhaps most basic about decent political life:… [read more]
The World’s Best Campaign Message
POST 1291 CAUTION! THIS POST CONTAINS THE WORD “ASSHOLE.” IF THAT WORD OFFENDS YOU, YOU’VE ALREADY READ TOO MUCH. STOP READING IMMEDIATELY AND RETURN TO WATCHING ANDY GRIFFITH RERUNS FROM MAYBERRY. BE SURE TO SAY “HI” TO AN’ BEA FOR ME. Campaign Messages The Democrats have labored at the speed of slugs to… [read more]
You Need To See This
POST 1290 See It Now Most of us are primarily visual creatures which can lead to missing important things that we can’t put our eyeballs on, so let’s start with something that is visual. Here’s a pair of pictures I found in Steve Schmidt’s post of June 1 of the dignified before and the dreadful… [read more]
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Nevertheless, Go Do Something – Check All That Apply Ο for your wallet Ο for decency Ο tor right over wrong Ο for compassion Ο to rebuild our alliances Ο for our healthcare Ο for voting rights Ο for education Ο for sensible immigration rules Ο for a government that obeys the Constitution and the… [read more]
