That Area Between Black and White
We joke about Speaker Pelosi being the highest level official in the USA while the higher level sleazes of the GOP are out of the country at once. “Quick, throw their stuff out on the lawn and change the locks!” we jest, but around us in news in the United States of America are decidedly …
Crime is bad. There are degrees of crimes, but it is generally bad to commit a crime. I wonder how many crimes I’ve committed this week, probably only trespassing and speeding, but who’s to say, for sure? There are laws on the books that we laugh about; they’re still laws, and violating them is still …
(This is part one of two. . .) For the first three or so decades of my life I learned to think the way I was taught in the midwest, to view voting day, if I bothered to show, as choosing between the “lesser of two evils.” As a 50-something now, I look back on …
Ah, Women’s History Month, the month when men are supposed to acknowledge that half the population of the world contributes approximately half of the work and advances in society and approximately ALL of the human beings. This one has been especially fun what with sexists and racists running the government into the ground and asshats …
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But do we? hold these truths to be self-evident, I mean? I don’t think we do. We think we do …
An adult American male whines to me like a baby about how I’m trying to take his rights away. He insults me. He won’t have any accidents. He won’t make any mistakes so regulations won’t affect him. He’s a “responsible gun owner.” He’s a “good guy.” Obviously. He insults anyone who doesn’t agree that his …
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction,” King said in his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality,” he continued. “This is why …
Buried deep in the steaming pile of shit we wade through every day, among the threats to our lives and livelihoods and the other abuses of power and petty squabbles, are important tidbits that I don’t think enough people are connecting because, let’s face it, we’re tired of wallowing in this shit every day. Still, we …
To our “leaders” and representatives: it’s time to lead; it’s time to represent us. Go ahead and try to make an argument about why we should ignore the gun violence crisis in our country (and ignore the health crisis as if they couldn’t possibly be connected). Go ahead and tell America this is just the …
Here we go again. Mass shooting in the United States. Another white guy used a semi automatic weapon to murder a lot of people. This isn’t about the people who pick random photos and make up stories in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting to blame Muslims, or Jews, or the right, or the …