POST 1125 NOTE: Read to the end for critical time sensitive information. The Final Money Grubber Tallies Instead of rejecting them immediately when I began to receive large numbers of emails soliciting donations to the Biden campaign in April, 2023, I began to collect them. Then I collected the emails sent from other candidates, too,… [read more]
Rebel: To Resist or Defy
POST 1124 I often listen to Jon Meacham’s marvelous podcast, Reflections of History, which I was doing recently while walking the dog. He presented the speech given by then-Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy on St. Patrick’s Day in 1954. Kennedy’s words have relevance today, so here is a small portion of Meacham’s presentation. Kennedy said, “Here… [read more]
How We Fell Off The Sled v 1.0
POST 1123 I had this nifty 11-point list of the many ways Democrats lost the election. It wasn’t pretty, but it was factual. Then, in a blinding flash of the obvious, I realized that only one of them was a root cause issue, a progenitor of all the rest. Indeed, it took only one of… [read more]
We’ve Fallen Off the Sled
POST 1122 There is no end of pundits punditing wildly in an effort to explain how Democrats managed to embarrass themselves and allow the country to be imperiled by power mad, greedy haters and traitors. We used to wonder why so many people would vote against their own best interests, but how did we get… [read more]
What Will Happen – Part 2 of 2
POST 1121 Preface This is Part 2 of 2 – Part 1 was published last Sunday, detailing some of what you can expect from the second Trump presidency, Some of what follows is snark or satire. Most is not. Criminality The sentencing hearing for the 34 criminal convictions of Trump in New York for fraud… [read more]
What Will Happen – Part 1 of 2
POST 1120 Preface This is Part 1 of 2 of what you can expect in the second Trump presidency. Some of what follows is snark or satire. Most is not. Expect Part 2 on Wednesday. Healthcare Bobby Kennedy will be in charge of healthcare – your healthcare. He doesn’t like vaccines, so count on our… [read more]
We’re Doing This To Ourselves
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]
Sociology Corner
POST 1118 Think of this as both a geeky query into some weird behavior, as well as the very reason for voting and working to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. You know: like that loyalty oath to which every federal official swears. _____________________________________ They Think That Violence Is a Sign of… [read more]
Where Have They Been?
POST 1117 From NBC, October 29 (trimmed for brevity): . . . Nikki Haley criticized Trump world on Tuesday for being “overly masculine with this bromance thing” after former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. On Fox News on Tuesday, Haley addressed a comedian’s racist jokes about Puerto Rico and Latinos,… [read more]
Five
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]
