POST 1119 Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln, 1864 So, too, ourselves, today, right now In watching this train wreck election proceed in slow motion I had to admit the foul truth, that half of my fellow citizens voted… [read more]
POST 1116 Did you already vote? Great! And you’re not done protecting our rights, our freedoms and our democracy. You know quite well that MAGA and the acquiescent, cowardly Republicans stand for hatred, cruelty, violence and un-American values and norms. They cannot make themselves bigger so they use every hateful method to make everyone else… [read more]
POST 1113 It’s a wonder that in the face of our ongoing gun deaths and the forever heartache attached to them that all we can do is pass a limp-wristed gun safety bill that has no chance of protecting any of us. This stuff is uncomfortably close to my daughter, Amy, and her six kids…. [read more]
POST 1111 One More Look At Our Terrible Voter Fraud Problem You’ve heard the statistics about our voter fraud problem, like that it’s 0.00001% of votes cast, clearly not enough to sway even the election of a candidate for the mosquito abatement board, much less a megalomaniac fraud and sexual assaulter to the presidency. Nevertheless,… [read more]
POST 1110 Jax Pix Here are some of my pics. President Kamala Harris (queue the forehead slaps), because we want our President to be a person who has neither dementia nor a mania to be der fuhrer. We want her to be focused on We The People. Senate Arizona – Reuben Gallego – Good, solid,… [read more]
POST 1108 Most of us know that an Israeli cease fire won’t get the hostages back, won’t curtail Hamas’ terrorism, won’t stop Hezbollah from firing rockets into northern Israel, won’t stop the Houthis from firing ballistic missiles into Israel from Yemen, won’t stop Iran from firing drones and ballistic missiles at Israeli cities and won’t… [read more]
POST 1107 Odd Humans Upon seeing him on Bill Maher’s program on September 27, I remembered that Yuval Noah Harari is a favorite author of Barack Obama. I just ordered Harari’s book Sapiens and hope to find a little understanding about humans from those pages. My non-scientific, anecdotal observation is that for most of we… [read more]
POST 1105 From the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging freedom of speech . . .” To be clear, that has nothing to do with whether the owners of social media sites or newspapers can keep us from speaking on their platforms. They can. That has everything to do with… [read more]
POST 1103. Brutal Truth The awful day will come. There will be no avoiding it and the now 6-year-old son of Amber Nicole Thurman will hear the brutal truth. He will be told that his mother was cut down by Donald Trump, Gov. Brian Kemp and all the self-righteous bigots who are sure they know… [read more]
POST 1102 Congratulations To The Crazies Donald Trump said at the presidential debate, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in [Haitian immigrants], they’re eating the cats, they’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” Rolling Stone reported on Thursday, “’City of Springfield received a bomb threat that… [read more]
