When Government Becomes a Career…
It ceases to become patriotism. As a child, I remember reading about post-revolution farmers laying down their plowshares to serve a year or two in government. It was understood that serving one’s...
View ArticleCommentary|| Rape, Incest, or the Health of the Fifty-One Senate Votes
As a practicing Democrat, I have endured the slings and arrows of the conservative-Christian community for years. I have heard that caring about the poor, taking the stewardship of the planet...
View ArticlePronouns, Limos, and the (N)uclear-Word
Saturday, October 8, 2022, not 1952, Alabama Senator and former football coach Tommy Tuberville tossed the hood of racism into the fray with cynical jabs at people he described with the pronoun “they.”...
View ArticleA-White Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name Smells as KKK
Democrats court trouble when they use metaphors and comparative thinking. Remember when former President Barack Obama used an old idiom. “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” in a June...
View ArticleOpinion| On your Mark, Get Set, to the Bottom
In less than thirty hours, we saw and heard decisions to fine broadcaster Alex Jones nearly 1 billion dollars in actual damages, with punitive damages to follow soon. A member of Congress (Marjorie...
View ArticleInventing Herschel | Commentary
I may be a little late to the party, but I have just gotten through the first two episodes of Inventing Anna on Netflix. Anna is a self-absorbed faux socialite bent on using her friends, the press, and...
View ArticleOne Stop Shopping?
A part of the nationalistic, anti-immigrant, and rising anti-Semitic hunger in America is the refusal to examine the U.S. side of the border. The last presidential administration wanted to build walls...
View ArticleFear or Hope?
While hyperventilating over imagined affronts such as kitty litter in schools to accommodate kids who believe they are animals or teaching courses that may offend little white kids with history, the...
View ArticleCop Killing, Rape and Theft
One can only live in fear if one listens to Republicans and watches their campaign ads. Republicans consistently decouple gun control from crime. Criminality is a real problem, but Willie Horton is not...
View ArticleOpinion | Affirmative Retraction
A conservative justice on the Supreme Court asserted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade that other rights were safe, including LGBTQIA rights, birth control, and interracial marriage. Chief Justice...
View ArticleVoting, Stops the Madness | Commentary
In the last days of campaigning, Republicans are narrowing their election focus to the so-called independent voter and conservative Democrats. Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz told his...
View ArticleKyrie Irving is not Funny, Prescient, or Harmless | Commentary
I often use a three-word idiom to explain human behavior; accident, coincidence, and trend. The current anti-Semitic controversy surrounding the demonstrations of ignorance by NBA star Kyrie Irving...
View ArticleEvaluating the Evaluators
I was surprised this weekend when I looked out my window and did not see masked marauders carrying clubs, knives, or guns. My neighbors were not cowering in fear, trying to reach their cars or go to...
View ArticleOpinion | Surprise, Surprise, Voting Works (Well Almost)
In last night’s midterm results, deep red states remained blood red, and gerrymandered Democratic districts in Florida and New York turned purple or outright red, like Miami-Dade County in Florida....
View ArticleOpinion | Spirit of the Flaw
The chickens may not have come home to roost last Tuesday, but the GOP laid an egg. In March 2016, when former President Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, eleven months before the...
View ArticleMass Shootings: An American Institution | Commentary
Three young men and football players at the University of Virginia lost their lives in a mass shooting that wounded two others returning from a class excursion. The three young men, Devin Chandler,...
View ArticleIt Seems We Have Been Here Before
The last piece I contributed to this forum was last Wednesday, November 16, 2022. It was entitled Mass Shootings: An American Institution. Admittedly it was a retelling—in part—of the mass shooting at...
View ArticleIs It Really the Far-Right?
Yet another mass shooting happened overnight near my sister’s home in Virginia. After the body counts, the gnashing of teeth, and the solemn looks of talking heads interviewing the survivors and...
View ArticleIs Irony Dead?
Congressman James Comer Jr. (R-KY) is the current ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. In January, when the 118th Congress is seated, he is set to become the Chairman of the committee when...
View ArticleThe Frogs in Boiling Water
Most of us have heard the tale of the frog in boiling water. If you try to put a frog in boiling water, it will hop out, but if you place it in the water and heat it slowly, it will sit and cook to...
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