Reading time – well worth it . . . Something’s going on. You can feel it even if you can’t name it. Things are changing from what they used to be or should be or could be to what you don’t want them to be. We humans aren’t very good at noticing small changes. Incremental… [read more]
Be Like Monica
Reading time – 61 seconds . . . Monica Lewinsky was a 22 year old intern in the Clinton White House when she engaged in her youthful indiscretion with the President. At the time President Clinton was 49, old enough to be her father and certainly old enough to know better. He was supposed to… [read more]
Chores
Reading time – 59 seconds . . . Were you required to do chores around the house when you grew up? Chances are, you were. When I was a kid, chores were simply what had to be done and we all had a hand in the work. I recall that once in an moment of… [read more]
Our Bridge
Reading time – 69 seconds . . . You really need to take the time: – To hear the words of John Lewis, a man who marched on Bloody Sunday and whose thanks that day was a fractured and bleeding scull. His reward – and ours – is that he has served in Congress, a… [read more]
Were You There?
Reading time – 22 seconds . . . You know the tune, so sing along. It was fifty years ago today Dr. King taught all of us to say, Freedom’s going in and out of style And oppression is so very vile. So may I introduce to you The truth you’ve known for all these… [read more]
A Bubble Waiting to be Popped
Reading time – 54 seconds . . . Rudy got it right: President Obama wasn’t raised like he was and he probably doesn’t love America like Rudy loves America and maybe, as Rudy said, he doesn’t love Rudy, either. For example: Rudy’s dad – Harold Giuliani – was a convicted felon (robbery) and spent a… [read more]
Republican Judge Hanen
Reading time – 43 seconds . . . Judge Andrew S. Hanen, a Republican judge in Republican Texas, heard testimony from the attorneys representing 26 Republican governors seeking to stuff President Obama’s executive order limiting deportations back into the president’s face. Republican Judge Hanen granted the Republican plaintiff’s petition on procedural grounds – i.e., a… [read more]
We’ve Forgotten
Reading time – 39 seconds . . . Before the New Deal millions of Americans spent their later years, when they were no longer able to earn a wage, in abject poverty. That’s a key reason Social Security was created. We seem to have forgotten about all that suffering of our elderly. Before Medicare millions… [read more]
Anyone?
Reading time – 47 seconds . . . Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is making all the right moves to play in the Big Game. Over the past few years he has slashed support for state workers, those leaches on society who do unnecessary things, like plow snow from the highways, supply clean drinking water and… [read more]
An Open Letter to Sarah
Reading time – 32 seconds . . . Hi Sarah, it’s me. We heard you announce that you’re looking into running for the Republican nomination to be President of the United States. That really should come as no surprise to anyone remotely familiar with you as the half-term former governor of Alaska who quit when… [read more]
