Four days after Independence Day, we find America is not now as independent as it was before The Supreme Court…
Conservative Politics
Whoa! Don’t Wanna Teach No Controversial Issues
Time to think about burning witches again in small-minded America. Classrooms, as all right-thinking Republicanite Boards of Education know (or…
Ho-Hum to a Climate ‘Point of no Return’
I mean really, how often are we going to scream that there’s a hole in the dike? We’ve known for…
Hold On, Pardner, Democracy Is Not Yet Dead
Elayne Clift at Salon just penned an article titled How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than…
The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend
According to Google, the first recorded instance for this phrasing comes from Gabriel Manigault, who in his 1884 Political Creed…
The Public Thirst For Outrage
Media carries a lot of blame for the current state of social, legal and political turmoil in America. At least…
Stephen Collinson, Trump’s Inside Man at CNN
Seldom do I write two columns on the same theme, but CNN has offered up consecutive pieces by Stephen Collinson…
The GOP’s Devotion to Trump Threatens to Destroy American Democracy
That’s the headline on a CNN article by Stephen Collinson and it pushes the Bullshit Needle entirely off the dial.…
The U.S. Supreme Court—Public Enemy #1
That’s a pretty harsh charge and I understand that, but we have to understand a few things in order to…
If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Fleas
That’s an old adage, attributed to actress Jean Harlow, but what makes adages old is their truths. And the truth…