Maybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)
Maybe we felt bad about Trump supporters and Trump voters being ridiculed by the leading-lights of the major culture, esp for thinking they are the (Continue Reading)
Our language sometimes scrunches word meaning down into what is commonly heard. Symbolism is one of those words, as in “It’s only symbolic.” That takes (Continue Reading)
Honor was lacking. Biden will tsk tsk us for saying a lack of honor was the principle in the Trump administration and in the Trump (Continue Reading)
As Trump gives up his law suits to overturn the election results, it remains to be seen what he will do next. Some say he (Continue Reading)
Someone who wants to conserve things the way they are. Why does he want to do that? Because he is comfortable with that way and (Continue Reading)
Heart-warming stories are the stock-in-trade of the site Upworthiest. Puppies, little kids, kittens, grateful oldsters, tough guy softies, and so on. Lots of fun. Makes (Continue Reading)
Ignoring for now the variety of ideologies, policies and crank ideas that make up the so-called conservative movement (Paleoconservatives. Reactionaries, Libertarians, Movement Conservatives, Old Guard, (Continue Reading)
Only one instance of this term appears in this blog:” I found that people whose knowledge and wisdom I had reason to respect presented this (Continue Reading)
At this point there must be a halt to pointing out how upside down the world must look now to Trump supporters: his Christian supporters (Continue Reading)
Several features of Trump’s attacks and his surrogates’ attacks on Obama are curious or downright hilarious. Obama not understanding America? Have you ever heard of (Continue Reading)
Here’s a scenario, all fantasy on my part but based a bit on conversations with police officers. Why do officers form a blue wall against (Continue Reading)
The Reverend Jerry Falwell has given a special twist to the ever difficult to define Trinity.
“It’s easy to write about other people’s compromises; it is much harder to write about your own.” My lack of compromise turned out not to (Continue Reading)
As long as we are divided along line of sex, income, citizenship, ethnicity, religion, status, and so many others, and as long as there are (Continue Reading)
Hearing Stuart Stevens confess his mistake in believing the Republican Party was about governance and prosperity rather than about its true north, racism, reminded me (Continue Reading)
We won’t have to worry about becoming socialists under the Democrats because we’ll all be dead under the Republicans.
“It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the (Continue Reading)
At this time of apparently endless protest against not only police brutality, the spark, but against an entire unjust, uneven, unequal system of racial oppression, (Continue Reading)
When certain responsible parties appear before Congress or any other body inquiring rightfully, justifiably, legally, and with a statutory duty to do so and they (Continue Reading)
In these pages I often stress the persistence of African cultural traits in the New World. Those traits came from Africans brought here during the (Continue Reading)
So here we are again. Another crisis that is supposed to have an opportunity hidden somewhere in it. But, again, what is ‘it’?It is just (Continue Reading)
You said of the S.C. decision today stating that federal law protests gay and transgendered people from discrimination in employment that when Congress wrote the (Continue Reading)
Sounds weird, doesn’t it? It did to me when my wife suggested it. To be truthful, the term was mine but the idea was hers. (Continue Reading)