POST 1184 On February 19 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker delivered his State of the State address. Appropriately, most of it was focused on Illinois issues, but he reserved his final comments for the state of our country and the perils we face moving forward. We are now four months further down the dangerous path Pritzker… [read more]
It’s Just A Matter Of Time
POST 1183 Declining Health On The Way From Heather Cox Richardson’s post of June 1 dealing with RFK, Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report that’s “full of errors, including misrepresentation of experiments and nonexistent studies:” Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told [reporters] Weber and Gilbert, “This is not… [read more]
Friday Extra – Reality Show
POST 1183 BSO Distraction MSNBC and CNN are hyperventilating over the online feud between our president and his now estranged Director of Smash and Burn. It’s two billionaire tyrant brats having a public spat as reality show, but it’s far more than that. These temper tantrums are Bright Shiny Objects designed to cause you either… [read more]
Center-Right – Really?
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]
