Israel, Hamas, and Reality
Sometimes reality is a difficult concept to wrap your mind around. Today’s turmoil in the Middle East is occurring at one such time.There is no quibbling with the notion that Hamas is a blatant...
View ArticleStupid
“Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.” --American Heritage, 4thed.A year ago I wrote a piece titled, The Golden Age of Stupidity. It was well received. The question I want to address a year later is...
View ArticleRepublican: What does that word mean in 2023?
In 750 words or less, what does “Republican” mean today?It means that Donald Trump’s history is all good, and nothing controversial about it is to be considered. Why not? Because this is a presidential...
View ArticleFinally! Legislatures and Prosecutors Get Serious about Fentanyl
A 15-year-old girl died of a fentanyl overdose a year ago in California. A new California law makes drug dealers selling to “customers” like this girl, who die from their overdose, a felony with far...
View ArticlePutin, pressing the flesh?
After the government-challenging Wagner Mercenary Chief was seen being cheered by the populace on his highly irregular advance on Moscow, suddenly the secretive, isolated, president of the Russian...
View ArticleTrump Fatigue
As the indictments have begun in earnest, and the potential trials approach, it seems to some as if we have been drowning in a barrel-full of Trumpism. But if you somehow think we have achieved as much...
View ArticleThe Dilemma Man
Once known as the unmistakably proud Donald John Trump, this guy has now become the perfection of the Dilemma Man, having more problematic entanglements than you can shake a stick at. State courts,...
View ArticleFox “News” and the Dominion defamation lawsuit
Are the people watching Fox News getting the news about Fox News’ Lies? Of course not.I watched an entire one-hour Fox segment of the day’s news Tuesday noon (“America Reports: Sandra Smith, John...
View ArticleXi, Yay or Nay?
Xi Jinping has inserted himself and his country into the Ukraine war situation. The question I am posing is manifold, and admittedly very interesting. Or rather, the answers are going to be very...
View ArticleGeorge Santos – The Latest Version of Republican Fun
Perhaps no single person has been more meaningfully defined in terms of his lying than Donald John Trump. He took it to a new level, never before seen, and that is certainly saying something. After...
View ArticleClown's Goin' Down
Teflon Don appears to have met his match. Donald J. Trump is in the greatest danger of prosecution – and conviction -- that he has ever faced in his entire life.Donnie Little Hands has always placed...
View ArticleHome to Roost? GOP “suddenly concerned”
Are Republicans’ chickens suddenly (and unanticipated by the GOP) coming home to roost? It is midterm election season. The party in the White House is historically destined to lose seats in both...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Stupidity
Someone smarter than I coined the following sentence. We are now in the Golden Age of Stupidity. Bravo. This statement is unquestionably true. And there is an older sentence that now, in light of...
View ArticlePresents for Ukraine, Playing Out in Real Time
Russia, if you are listening, I hope you can find all of those missing …Nazis.Russia has become Europe’s present day equivalent of what the Goths were to the Roman Empire. Some of the elements are...
View ArticlePutin's Holodomor
Favorite incredulous Star Trek quote: “They irradiated their own planet?”Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. That is a line from the film, The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard is seen working his...
View ArticleDo Not Pass Go
Go directly to jail. You are familiar with the board game. However, we are not talking about a board game. The four Trumpers already “invited” to testify to Congress are in varying stages of refusal,...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court and Abortion: Why This Term is Important
The highest court in the land has convened in what may become a rather legendary term. They will rule on some very important cases. Not the least of which is the Mississippi case, Dobbs v. Jackson...
View ArticleI Had No Idea!
The four most revealing and perhaps most infamous words spoken by the unvaccinated who are finally facing the reality of COVID-19 sickness and death, are these: “I had no idea!”Really? You had no...
View ArticleCould you be a racist?
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” –Aldous HuxleyOkay, “Could you be a racist?” is an admittedly challenging question that...
View ArticleNut-case Base
We would like to think it all started with the Tea Party, but in fact, there have always been crazies out there on the political fringes. However, things have certainly changed. And the GOP has taken...
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