Reading time – 3:01 . . . We’re a hotly divided country, entrenched in our certainties. Whether we say it or not, we see compromise as a dirty thing. On the other hand, we all know right from wrong and there isn’t a lot of disagreement about it, once we get past our rationalizations. The… [read more]
Veterans Day, 2019
Reading time – 1:31 . . . It’s Veterans Day, the day we set aside to honor all who serve. Right now there are 1.29 million men and women wearing the uniform and nobody makes them do it. Every one of them volunteered. They had choices. They chose to protect you and me. And they… [read more]
Here It Comes!
Reading time – 2:26; Viewing time – 3:19 . . . It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Put your hands together and give a roaring welcome to the one, the only Impeachment of Donald Trump! Yes, you’ve been waiting for this, because you’ve known since before the start that he’s a con… [read more]
Unmasking in the Theater
Reading time – 3:33 . . . The House will hold all-hands-on-deck hearings into the impeachment of President Donald Trump. This has been a long time coming, considering all the blatantly illegal and un-Constitutional and un-presidential things he’s done. Indeed, just his refusal to investigate and take action against Russia for interfering in our 2016… [read more]
Paul Revere
Reading time – 3:30; Viewing time – 4:43 . . . The last time I read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride (no, it isn’t entitled The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere) I was in high school. For reasons known only to the gods of random thoughts, the poem came to mind, so I looked… [read more]
Fantastical Fictional Universe
Reading time – 3:41 . . . President Trump is just like you and me – except he lies constantly and thinks everything is or should be about him. In his Q & A with reporters during a Cabinet meeting on Monday, October 21 he expressed many opinions about the Constitution, the economy, his abilities… [read more]
What I Wish He’d Said
Reading time – 2:04 . . . Chairman Adam Schiff Speaking to the House A/V technician while covering his microphone and pointing toward the Republican Members of Congress who are not members of the House Intelligence Committee but are in the room: Please turn off their microphones. To all: These proceedings have been invaded by… [read more]
An Exercise in Deadly Stupid
Reading time – 1:59 . . . It’s been the silence, the acquiescence of the Republicans in Congress that has been so dispiriting all along. In large measure, that has been about their tolerating Trump’s constant stream of lies, inanities and his boundless cruelties. The acquiescence that matters, though, has been over things like Trump’s… [read more]
Un-Acountability
Reading time – 2:14; Viewing time – 3:24 . . . From Greg Sargent of The Washington Post: “Trump is not merely staking out an absolute refusal to cooperate with any and all lawful subpoenas, on the deeply absurd grounds that the House’s impeachment inquiry is illegitimate, as the White House counsel has argued. “Rather,… [read more]
Against Their Own Interest – and Syria Stupidity
Reading time – 3:47 . . . A lot of barrels of ink have been emptied in an effort to explain why some American voters – largely rural people – consistently vote against their own interests. This predates Donald Trump, although he has been a beneficiary of it and has exploited it masterfully. My understanding… [read more]
