After the flood of lying, cheating, whining, denying, abandoning of his criminally loyal co-conspirators and all the rest of the cover up deceit, we at last learned for certain that Nixon had lied when he declared, “I am not a crook.” His “opening of China” might have been a good thing in itself and it… [read more]
Ignorance
My friend Dr. Mardy Grothe writes an interesting and insightful post each week. Indeed his offering is the first thing I read Sunday mornings. His comments usually focus on literary issues in a most clever way. However, last Sunday he uncharacteristically dipped a toe in my accustomed pond. His piece is so good that I… [read more]
Woke, Parents Rights, Covid & Court Watch
“Woke” Update 2 Given the decades of Republican and so-called conservatives’ efforts to establish absolute power and wealth into the hands of (guess who?) the wealthy, including themselves, it seems this mania to attack whatever is “woke” was inevitable. It’s undefined by those same Republicans and so-called conservatives so that they can use the term… [read more]
Amendment XXVIII
Section 1. Whereas: The necessity of a free state to have a well regulated militia being fully satisfied by the various State National Guard units; and, Whereas: The right of the people to be safe and secure in their persons, domiciles and in all public places being paramount; therefore, Upon ratification of this article, the… [read more]
Remember This Day
Remember this day, March 30, 2023, so that you can tell your grandchildren that this was the moment when justice began to return to America. _______________________________ From Adam Kinzinger, March 30: If you take one thing away from this email, let it be this: The indictment of Donald J. Trump doesn’t keep him from running… [read more]
Again and Again
Three little children showed up for third grade on Monday. Now they’re dead. We have a school shooting every 3 days. We have a mass shooting twice every 3 days. The biggest cause of death of children under 18 is not auto collisions. It isn’t any disease. It is gunfire. We have enough firearms in… [read more]
Potpourri v18.0
Silence This is for those Republicans quietly whining in their closets about right wing extremists: you really should be speaking up. . You should have voted for a Democrat to be Speaker of the House instead of voting for spineless Kevin McCarthy. You should have been speaking out against Trump’s outrages and those of the… [read more]
Riddle Me That, Batman
Join the Disambiguation Gang right over there ⇒ (scroll down just a bit) _____________________________________ We human beings are walking contradictions. We say we want to be fit and healthy but we forget the New Year’s resolution and drop the gym membership before January 20 (to get the full membership refund) and we eat stuff that tastes… [read more]
Banking Crisis and Words
Of course, you thought we had wrung all the stupid out of the banking system back in 2009 following the banking meltdown and the bailout you and I paid for. We passed Dodd-Frank to prevent a repeat performance. We pointed fingers. We threatened prison terms. And nobody was held accountable. Glass-Steagall had been designed to… [read more]
The Debt Ceiling Question
Once again the Republicans are threatening to refuse to raise the debt ceiling. This is a form of “If I don’t get what I want, I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue.” If this were one of Trump’s breath holding threats I’d say fine, go turn blue. Please. But it isn’t painless… [read more]
