It isn’t about banning or burning books, or refusing to do anything to stop the mass shooting carnage or disrupting school board meetings by spewing hatred or restricting or eliminating abortion services and other women’s healthcare or marching with Tiki torches and swastika flags or moronically seig heil-ing while wearing black ski masks and sunglasses… [read more]
The Madness
Ed. note: Due to the Moms Demand Action – Advocacy Day ’23 yesterday, “What It’s Really About – Part Two” has been moved to this Sunday, May 21. It’s been ten and a half months since the brutal July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park, IL that killed seven innocent people and wounded 48 other… [read more]
What It’s Really About – Part One
The Diabolical Debt Ceiling Everyone knows that if the U.S. defaults on its debt obligations that the sky will fall all over the world. We will sink into a recession that lays off over 8 million American workers, leaving them without a way to support their families. Interest rates will soar, making everything way more… [read more]
Inflation
First: E. Jean Carroll Won her civil lawsuit against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation of character. She was awarded $5 million in this unanimous verdict. I hope she publishes a picture of the check. Trump responded to the verdict on his imitation of Twitter, “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is…. [read more]
Potpourri v19.0
E. Jean Carroll’s Civil Suit against Donald Trump for battery and defamation is nearly over. She presented her case and then Trump called no witnesses. The closest he came to testifying was in his deposition, played for the jury, where he defended himself by claiming that Carroll was not his type. That got me to… [read more]
No, We Aren’t Better Than This & The Top Idiot Award
Just when you thought you had seen Marjorie Taylor Greene’s* most despicable demonstration of degeneracy, she somehow went even lower. In a House hearing she declared that only biological moms are real moms. To hell with you do-gooders who open your hearts and adopt or foster kids. You’re not real moms, according to Greene. Neither… [read more]
I’m So Old
I’m so old that I remember when passing the debt ceiling was just a box that Congress checked each year to ensure the full faith and credit of the United States. There was no conflating future spending with payment for past spending. There was no threatening of our economy. We just paid our bills. I… [read more]
NO! v3.0
Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox I wanted this case to go to trial to see Carlson, Hannity, Murdoch and the rest humiliated on the witness stand for their lies and their traitorous exhortations to sedition. That comes from the same driver as putting wrongdoers into the stocks in the town square in colonial days. That… [read more]
NO! v2.0
We Americans routinely let tragedy happen to school children, as at the Covenant School in Nashville and at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and now at a Dadeville, AL sweet 16 party. Children are powerless to stop the murdering, so they count on we adults, we good people, to speak up and say “NO!“ This… [read more]
NO! v1.0
In Sam Adler-Bell’s essay The One Thing Trump Has That DeSantis Never Will, he makes distinctions between the manipulative governor and the unscrupulous Trump. He identifies their bets on campaign donors and which sections of the voting public each seems to think he can attract. Adler-Bell writes, If [Trump’s] wager pays off, it will be… [read more]
