This is not just another rant about anti-democracy, anti-fact, anti-truth, anti-progress Republicans. Sure, this is a rant and it’s fun to bash the bullies, but what Republicans are doing is amplifying their ingrained dishonesty to the point of imperiling our national bedrock. So, this is a semaphore signal or perhaps the ride of a descendant… [read more]
We’re Still Not Free
Can you believe we’re still having conversations about basic Covid stuff? I mean, we’ve known what to do to defeat this pandemic for most of a year and the rising availability of vaccines has greatly enhanced our ability to fight it, but still over 60,000 Americans test positive every day and our hospitals are filling… [read more]
Survival
“The single greatest threat to our security right now is domestic terrorism and the tensions and polarizations between us.” – Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), former CIA Agent, now serving on the House Homeland Security Committee. Given her security background and current access to national security information, it seems likely she knows what she is talking… [read more]
No Really, Facts Don’t Matter
Over the last 10 years more than a billion votes have been cast in America. During that time there have been 31 cases of confirmed voting fraud. That’s 0.0000031% voting fraud, or 31 hundred-millionths of a percent. That’s the same as 99.9999969% authentic, legal voting. If these pitifully few cases of voting fraud were lumped… [read more]
Liberal and Most Illiberal
Liberal New York Times conservative columnist Bret Stephens has an interesting post on our politics. He says we’re not divided by liberal versus conservative; we’re divided by liberal versus illiberal. Here’s what he says liberal democracy is supposed to be: By “liberal,” I don’t mean big-state welfarism. I mean the tenets and spirit of liberal… [read more]
Take This Personally
Immigration, kids in cages, refugee camps, asylum seekers – these are some of the terms that are at last being taken seriously. We’re finally looking into what is and has been driving so many people to our southern border. We’re actively looking to see what we can do to make life better in El Salvador,… [read more]
Sing It With Me
A video of this post is inlne below. ——————————— Our national mania for freedom (“You can’t tell me what to do!“) and our desire for retribution for both real and imagined wrongs, combined with our obsession over firearms (click for the truth about “Second Amendment remedies“) is a potent combination that is doing exactly what… [read more]
Our Watch
The good news is that there are lots of people who are smarter than me and I need them, because I have a big bucket full of I Don’t Know. For example, I don’t understand righties who not only want to have their way (that part is understandable, of course), but they want to “own… [read more]
That Guy
Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” (Thanks go to MG for the quote.) That’s a powerful observation about human nature and motivation, but when I read it I instantly shifted to our national cultural and political divide. If you’ve… [read more]
FDB – Not a Typo
Were I twenty years younger and living where there is a Republican senator or congressperson I would run for office in 2022. I’m licking my lips at the idea of running against any fool Republican who voted against the American Rescue Plan, which includes every Republican in Congress. By November 2022 it will be the… [read more]
