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 …
It’s funny how images from the television can stick with us. Since I was little, I’ve imagined all of us as a group of pretty, smiling people holding hands and walking side-by-side toward a common goal. I thought it was a Coke commercial, but I can’t find the ad. Regardless of the origin, the image …
Trump is in London today, Friday the 13th, where Brits have huge crowds for wonderfully creative protests of 45’s visit. I particularly appreciated the Dalek with the toupée and the photos of 45 with Queen Elizabeth of England. She clearly doesn’t enjoy some of her duties as queen. These people could renew my hope all on …
Things are moving quickly. In 1933 Germany, the first political prisoners were being rounded up for an indefinite period without charges to be held in various locations around the country. Forced labor began around 1939. Killing centers opened in 1941. This timeline pretty much covers where my immediate concern is as an American. Don’t get …
I despise that phrase: “I can’t even.” Surely, we can think of something else, some better way, to get that idea across? Then this past week or so happens. Since my son’s wedding at the end of May, things have been non-stop. I’m having a harder time than usual processing it all. Each time I …
Following the American president’s shameful remarks about immigrants not being humans, about them being animals, I’m left goggling as Americans justify his vile statement by explaining what (they think) he really meant. “He meant the gang members,” they say, as if that makes it okay. Besides, we heard what Trump said. He made himself crystal …
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 …
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 …
As I write this post, there are federal investigations ongoing into meddling in America’s elections last year by Russia, a hostile foreign power. There are daily discussions about protecting investigators and members of the Justice Department from interference or firing by some of the subjects of these investigations. This is HUGE. This is Nixon level …