Hey Rube!
In the late 19th Century circus patrons, who were conned out of their money by the operators of games of chance, were referred to as “Rubes.’ There are multiple stories about how the term came into...
View ArticlePeace in the Valley
Trying as hard as he might, Donald Trump could not break the peace of the Verde Valley. As the family of John McCain endured the hot tears of despair in the Arizona sun, the President of the United...
View ArticleMining for Gold
Gold miners dug holes in the earth in search of those shiny nuggets that would sustain or bring richness to their lives. The nuggets of gold I discovered this weekend while the country said goodbye to...
View ArticleRepublicans Hide Hypocrisy Right Under Our Noses
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.), banged his gavel, pursed his lips and harrumphed his way through the valid objections by Democrats during the opening hearing to...
View ArticleIt is Institutional not Constitutional
If a carpenter drives a nail with his shoe instead of a hammer, that is not the fault of the tool but the failure of the worker. Pundits, observers, and politicians want to create this Rube Goldberg...
View ArticleI Made the Flag an Issue, What More Do you Want?
Is it me, or am I just too ultra-sensitive to Republican chicanery? I check my news feed generally before I start my day and the first thing I saw this morning was an alleged campaign fundraising...
View Article‘Fear’ and Fraud
America, we have a chance to redeem ourselves. With the recent release of the book ‘FEAR’penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, we can either trust a renowned journalist or a proven...
View ArticleHistory is About Truth
In the third movie of the Godfather trilogy, Michael Corleone just prior to lapsing into hysteria, chiefly out of guilt, told his longtime associate and assassin Al Neri, and his sister Connie, “just...
View ArticleJudge Kavanaugh, Justice is not Blind to the Facts
It is without question that rape, sexual assault, and molestation are among the most heinous crimes in not only American jurisprudence but go against the biological synapsis of good men. Let us make a...
View ArticleFairandWhite 11/10?
The satirical use of the title of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 has permeated the landscape from Robert Calvert’s poem Centigrade 232, to activist/film producer Michael Moore’s original film...
View ArticleThe Absolute Right to Say No!
Liberal P. Democrat is calling for a total and complete shutdown of the Republican Party until Americans can figure out, ‘what the hell is going on.’ Republicans who were appalled that Sarah Huckabee...
View ArticleSkirt-ing the Issue
In September of 2008, former President Obama referred to John McCain’s presidential bid as an attempt to wrap old fish in clean paper and say it does not stink. Most famously he said, “you can put...
View ArticleThe Two Faces of Jeff
I am not generally prone to ad hominem attacks but the Trump Party has brought out the worst in me. I was not bothered by the orchestrated anger from Brett Kavanaugh, whose charge of ‘search and...
View ArticleLover of Lies
Donald Trump told us over the weekend that he loves “brutality.” Yes, that could be considered a mischaracterization, but I contend the convoluted statements and lies of Trump makes interpretation a...
View ArticleKanye or Con-Ye?
We are living in an age of exploitative entrepreneurship, not that—that is new. I still stare quizzically at Warhol depictions, and I have a Mood Ring in a box somewhere in one of my closets. Men and...
View ArticleBrett, DT and Lindsey Should Start a Drinking Game
There is something we have missed in the Brett Kavanaugh v. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford fight. Donald Trump gave us a sneak peek at the Department of Justice he has always wanted. We got a concrete...
View ArticleWhy I Believe the Women
Pardon my openly biased opinion but I have two beautiful granddaughters, four lovely sisters and marvelous nieces who live up and down the East Coast. There are and have been other important women in...
View ArticleLimousine Riding, Jet Flying…Son of a Gun
Hang with me, I am taking you on a strange ride but I have a destination in mind. For the past two years plus, I have heard numerous ‘Trump and reality show’ comparisons, wrong, wrong, wrong. It is...
View ArticleElizabeth, No Need to Respond
Today Senator Elizabeth Warren responded to Donald Trump’s Pocahontas taunt by pacifying his ego. Repeatedly on the campaign trail and his self-serving rallies Donald Trump insulted native Americans...
View ArticleHe’s No Rocket Scientist
What is it about the TV yellers, handwringers and spitting mad pundits that insist on normalizing Donald Trump? The comparisons to the absurd never stop with the current President. My latest...
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