It’s become a near-futile exercise, trying to reach the growing numbers of red state conservatives who have been duped into supporting programs and policies that provide less of what they need while jeopardizing the realization of the dreams of what they want. By demonizing government and spending for socially responsible…
If this was a TV show, whomever was having this dream, (you know, the one where Trump is the frontrunner for the Republicans and Bernie Sanders is kicking Hillary’s ass, which may not even matter if the FBI throws her in the slammer, and Michigan is poisoning everybody in Flint,…
Because this is America, everyone has the Constitutional right to say almost anything short of threatening a Federal official, yelling “FIRE!” in a knowingly incendiary-less theater or using otherwise actionably slanderous language. Nothing, other then our individually calibrated moral compasses, demands us to be truthful and there are even less…
These are the words that we always hear each year, just before the President begins to feed us a diatribe of well-spun reasons why we, Americans, are better, richer, more powerful, admired, beloved and luckier than anyone else…anywhere else on Earth. This year’s State of the Union began as always,…
First of all, I don’t understand what all the fuss is about; Chex® in the background or the foreground, in a yummy, buttery mix…how did this become such a divisive issue? And the gun show thing…that would be about sugary cereal, no? Regardless, polls have been taken and a majority…
I have set hundreds of preposterous goals in my life with a better than average ATTAINMENT:FAILURE quotient. I think it’s due to my parents tacitly instilling a “you-can-achieve-anything-you-really-set-your-mind-to” attitude somewhere in my impressionably young, subconscious mind. I learned to fly, (if you jump from the top of the stairs of…
Really. Unless you’re in a part of the world being hit by tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, civil war, holy war, drought, famine, disease or an extraordinary preponderance of painfully pussy boils, other than the good or bad news regarding the upsurge or downswing in Christmas sales, I’m a little stumped for…
I really don’t need one damn thing, Please, no more gift cards that I’ll just forget to redeem anyway. I’ve got three drawers full of socks and a sweater for every day of the year. I barely have time to look, watch, listen or Google with the electronic crap I…
195 nations, (that’s nearly all of them), meeting in Le Bourget, France, have agreed on a comprehensive framework aimed at abandoning reliance on fossil fuels, needless, wholesale deforestation, and the indiscriminate use of non-recyclable materials. The agreement sets goals for capping and reducing global temperatures through an unprecedented, unified and…