Reading time – 2:17; Viewing time – 3:02 . . . Slavery didn’t end in America with the close of the Civil War. It morphed into Jim Crow and torture and lynchings and murder of every sort. It changed into poll taxes and phony literacy tests. Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and… [read more]
Keeping Score On Just One Week
Reading time – 2:55; Viewing time – 4:20 . . . Kim Jong-un, the murderous dictator of North Korea, has played Donald Trump like he’s a marionette. Kim freed 3 American prisoners for whom he had no further use. He already had the nuclear bomb technology he wanted, so it was a freebie to promise… [read more]
Still Looking For the Up-Side
Reading time – 1:41; Viewing time – 2:38 . . . President Trump has made good on yet another brain dead campaign promise, this time by moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. There was a formal ceremony to recognize the change and it included words from a pastor who has publicly announced… [read more]
D’oh!
Reading time – 3:09; Viewing time – 4:28 . . . Trump’s temper tantrum list – and this is just a short, partial list – came to me in a true Homer Simpson moment. Here’s what he’s done: – Backed the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accords, a plan for global climate protection that… [read more]
It’s Us
Reading time – 2:50; Viewing time – 4:09 . . . A recent study has found a most hopeful truth about our country. In The Reinvention of America, James Fallows writes, Serious as the era’s problems are, more people, in more places, told us they felt hopeful about their ability to move circumstances the right… [read more]
The Republican Juggernaut Against Government
Reading time – 2:10 . . . In a recent conversation, a friend wondered why working-class voters vote for politicians and support policies that are at odds with their own interests. It’s my belief that these voters don’t think through the situation. All they recognize is that a program of small government and low taxes… [read more]
Blustering for Bupkis*
* Bupkis – Absolutely nothing; nothing of value, significance, or substance. Reading time 1:17 . . . Who doesn’t want the nuclear capabilities of homicidal, fratricidal uncle-cidal Kim Jong-un eliminated? So, the upcoming summit between Kim and Trump has everyone’s interest and hopes for success, with success defined as ending North Korea’s nuclear threat. Sadly,… [read more]
The Last Word
Reading time – 1:03 . . . We stopped at the funky bookstore on the way to the island, where I picked up a novel by Gore Vidal. I had never read anything by Vidal and this book was on a stack selling at half price, so on a whim I included it with the… [read more]
Voluntary Subjugation
Reading time – 2:59; Viewing time – 4:16 . . . Whatever may be the perverted mental issues that compel him to puffery and self-service instead of service to country and which eased his way to lie over 2,000 times during his first year in office, the real issue is not Donald Trump’s dishonesty. The… [read more]
Take Heart!
Reading time – 46 seconds . . . . It’s hard to be hopeful when headlines are dope-ful Of President Trump’s latest stupid. “Take heart!” I implore, even as the Chief Bore Treats our nation in ways that are putrid. . It’s more than just some who can see that he’s dumb As he leaves… [read more]
