There once was a man/child from Queens Who was born of deep-pocketed means He grew up as a rapist and thief And then preposterously Commander-in-Chief He’ll soon be wearing fat orange prison jeans
In case anyone is confused by this week’s special election in Ohio, it was an attempt by the minority of Ohioans, sometimes called Republicans, to preemptively make it harder, (almost impossible), for the majority to democratically impose its Constitutional will. 43% of Tuesday’s voters, (guess who they were), chose to…
Is that still a thing? I don’t know where it came from, (not Googling it either), but it used to be a common expression of giving up. I guess it’s gone out of style or maybe it doesn’t have a clever enough abbreviation to have made it into the texting…
There’s a point in time, I guess, where history becomes educated conjecture rather than chronicled reportage. But, even far past that demarcation, the reliability of studied archaeological and anthropological artifacts is deemed to be scholarly, accepted gospel. Advances in carbon dating and the visual forensics of enhanced photogrammetry have allowed…
We’re done, right? I mean, democracy and equality as a bold concept of governance. 247 years and we’re barely trying to make it work? 30 maybe 40% of us, Trump-huggers, want to tear it all down…not with the slightest clue of what they want, but with the indoctrinated, cultish determination…
I struggle with the complexities of human behavior. There are nearly 8 billion of us milling around our planet…800,000,000 in extreme poverty, (less than $2.15/day), another 800,000,000 in abject poverty, (around $5/day), 100 million refugees displaced by war and famine and ethnic cruelty and an anthropological guesstimate that 4 billion…
This week, global temperature watchers registered the four hottest days EVER, since around 1880 when recording such things crossed someone’s mind. These hottest-ever days were not by slight, incrementally expected variations, but by .5º on Tuesday, .8º on Wednesday and Thursday and almost 1º on Friday. This is meteorologically scary…
Anyone who pledges allegiance to our flag must change the last four words to “…and injustice for some.” My heart is broken by the creeping ooze of the worst of us, dastardly gaming the system in a coup that has given the final words on kindness, racism and misogyny to…
Yeah, I know…but there’s an awful lot of it going around these days and it’s just, well…stupid. Our criminally rampaging ex-President is stupid. So, was 43, but W wasn’t despicable, however, and stupid and despicable is way more troubling than merely being vacuously incompetent. The kind of stupid that has…
Justice, in its purest form, is the concept of equal and fair treatment or the person tasked to dispense such treatment and the United States of America is the first country founded on the basic principle of “…freedom and justice for all”. That was a lofty declaration by our founders…