POST 1289 We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society. President Lyndon Johnson, May 22, 1964, University of Michigan Commencement speech, announcing the Great Society program Do you want “that kind of society”? Because… [read more]
Memorial Day 2026
POST 1072 / 1288 Tomorrow Is Memorial Day This essay was originally posted on Memorial Day, 2012, with wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan, promoted by the beat of politicians thumping chests and spraying lies. Today we’re in an unwinnable war against Iran through just as much pointless, homicidal bravado as before. Yes, we’re still… [read more]
American Insanity
POST 1287 From the “Yet Another Insanity” Department There is a lot of crazy and it’s all around us. We’re dealing with: an unprovoked, brainlessly started and conducted war where there is no off-ramp the ongoing destruction of American hegemony ugly, ugly gerrymandering by White supremacists that is driving us into Jim Crow 2.0 and… [read more]
Who Cares?
POST 1286 Cheating The Vote – One More Time Why is it that only Republicans continue to wage a multi-decade effort to prevent women, poor people and people of color from voting? Why is it that only Republicans want to deploy weapons-carrying thugs to polling places to intimidate voters? Why is it that only Republicans… [read more]
Epic Failures – Plus Day 1 Again
POST 1285 Hey Fred and Mary Anne! Yeah, you. It was your job to properly raise your reprobate son to have good moral principles, to obey the law and to respect others. You were supposed to mold him into a decent American citizen worthy of breathing our air and taking up space on this planet…. [read more]
Starting Advice For Day 1
POST 1284 Taking Useful Instruction From Trump – A Note To Our New President and Congress For January 20, 2029 When the Ds win the White House and Congress in 2028, they’ll need to hit the ground running. When Trump showed up for his first term he had under his arm 33 executive orders ready… [read more]
Maybe You Thought The Civil War Was Over
POST 1283 It’s April 12, 1861* All Over Again An on-point look at the steadfast discriminatory pummeling into powerlessness of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Roberts court can be found in The Post-Racial Deception of the Roberts Court. It was penned by Cedric Merlin Powell, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law,… [read more]
Right?
POST 1282 What A Day For Racial Suppression! Hip, hip hooray for the South because it’s rising again! Put those monuments to traitors like Robert E. Lee back in the town square. May Confederate flags fly forever, high above the slave market in Charleston, South Carolina! Put those uppity darkies like Malcolm X back in… [read more]
What’s Wrong And What Isn’t
POST 1281 The White House Correspondents Dinner A highly armed shooter sprinted past security people. He was stopped before he could hurt others. That is the only good news about what happened. The far bigger issue is that the President of the United States is and has been promoting American violence going at least as… [read more]
Deterioration
POST 1280 Starting At The Bottom and Deteriorating From There Early in Trump’s first administration many mental healthcare professionals offered their professional opinions of Trump’s mental state. Many criticisms of their diagnoses followed, saying that no valuable diagnosis could be made in the absence of an in-person interview. It turns out that is incorrect. My… [read more]
