We can never go back to before … nor should we try
A recent Washington Post – ABC poll identified about twenty six percent of the country as “angry” about the newly enacted health care legislation. Presumably, good portions of these citizens are...
View ArticleGlenn Beck and the unbearable whiteness of being
Every generation brings us great leaders as well as mediocre ones. Every generation also brings us charlatans: people optimized to reinforce our prejudices and whip us up into a cyclonic frenzy. In...
View ArticleWhy Republicans are duty bound to cancel their insurance
Over the last couple of years, my family has been at fault for two automobile accidents. I got in a minor fender bender when a car clipped the side of my bumper as I was trying to pull into traffic. My...
View ArticleThe Great Regression
The Great Recession sure isn’t/wasn’t much fun. According to economists, we have been out of the recession for a while, but for most Americans, with 9.6% unemployment we feel still deeply mired in it....
View ArticlePhilanderers for president!
Are you a better person for being married only once? That’s what I was wondering today as I read this article in the Washington Post. Mitt Romney, currently polling second among Republicans in the run...
View ArticleA sudden Rush to judgment
Thank goodness at least some people you would think would not bother continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh. The conservative radio host says so many outrageous things that it is hard to keep from being...
View ArticleUnless
Winter never really arrived this year. Typically we don’t get much in the way of snowfall in a given winter, but the snowplows tend to come out at least a couple of times during the season. And they...
View ArticleLittle conservative about most conservatives
A couple of weeks ago I noted that many Christians are anything but Christian. In fact, it would be hard to find a group that looked more like the anti-Christ. So many modern Christians these days are...
View ArticleWe are not rocks, we are human beings
Psst! You are personally responsible for everything you do! Actually, in modern political discourse, this is not whispered so much as it is shouted. You hear it from Republicans and conservatives all...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy reminds us why we need government
With the arrival of Hurricane Sandy here on the east coast yesterday, you got a timely reminder of why we need government. Yesterday was a day when you wanted to batten down the hatches and if you...
View ArticleRunning scared
What would you do if you knew that your life, as you have known it, was going to change fundamentally? Great traumatic events happen to us in our lives, but none of us welcome them. When they happen,...
View ArticleThe LGBT recoil
It looks like North Carolina is the latest state to discover the pitfalls of trying to govern from the extreme. HB2, passed in a special one-day session, specifically overwrote a Charlotte, North...
View ArticleThe DACA reaction: push comes to shove
Hawkeye: How do you feel? Private Peterson: All ready to go out and kill me some more “gooks”, sir. Hawkeye: Wendell, another word for “gooks” is “people.” M*A*S*H, Season 1, Episode 15 Conservatives...
View ArticleWe are living in Future Shock
Americans lived through a frightening week last week. Bombs were sent to prominent Democratic politicians and supporters. Thankfully, none of these exploded. The FBI apprehended a suspect, 56-year-old...
View ArticleWhy is the right wing so threatened by AOC?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi Newly minted congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been making quite a name...
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