That Area Between Black and White
Just before ringing in 2020, a reporter asked Melania Trump what she wished for in the New Year, and her answer was “piss on the world” (peace on the world). Normally, I wouldn’t use the literal pronunciation/poke fun at a person’s dialect – I don’t speak any other languages so have no room to talk …
I don’t care what you have in your pants; this is a big deal. I really don’t care what’s in there, but for the purposes of this post, it’s even less important now. Today, the Virginia State Legislature became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. This is HUGE. Before we go any …
I’ve been quiet lately, taking massive amounts of information in, calling my Senators, listening, reading. . . but today I will take some time to stop worrying about the future and let this day be about remembering who and what we lost all those years ago. Today is not to dwell on conspiracies and lies …
(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 …
They all seem to think a lot of themselves, these politicians. Trump clearly does. I mean, narcissism is his thing, the one thing he is good at. A couple of weeks ago, I was at my son, David’s, wedding, and of course, that means family. Lots and lots of family. The whole family thing can …
From the start, Trump has been trying to convince his marks, I mean “voters,” that he’s some great deal-maker. So far, though, he’s failed to make any deals other than to sign the one the GOP Congress passed to lower taxes for the wealthy in this country so that everyone else could make up the …
Attn: “President” Donald J. Trump, Vice-President Michael Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican Party Chairperson Ronna Romney McDaniel, GOP membership, and any other treason weasels of the United States of America I haven’t already mentioned Re: The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018-2028 We need to talk. This isn’t an …
Over the weekend I got to watch the last five episodes of “The Vietnam War,” a ten-part documentary on the war and politics of that time. I highly recommend watching it if you can make the time commitment; it took me more than a month. All throughout there are important lessons about where we are, …
“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 …
With the rest of the United States, I wait and hope for a sign. It is overcast in Milwaukee so I probably won’t see it. I don’t have glasses for it anyway. It’s supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but I didn’t bother to find out until too late that I am in the wrong …