“The American people didn’t vote for all this ridiculous bullshit, and we need to keep fighting.” Gas lighting is defined in my entry To Start (Continue Reading)
“The American people didn’t vote for all this ridiculous bullshit, and we need to keep fighting.” Gas lighting is defined in my entry To Start (Continue Reading)
If you look through my categories or just search ‘reading’ you’ll find a lot of passionate entries on the topic. But I’ve neglected that for (Continue Reading)
For over a month I’ve been coming back from a month-long hiatus in exercise. Not quite true if you count lugging luggage over an unfamiliar (Continue Reading)
I will have toreturn to this entry often. I am perturbed by comments from people who know better. Example1: Richard Haas saying that Trump’s allocation (Continue Reading)
After being married into a Black American family for about ten years and so in the decade of the 70s, the scene was changing in (Continue Reading)
That sounds pretty erudite, doesn’t it. What the fuck is a paradigm and will it fit into my pick-up (almost forgot the hyphen) with all (Continue Reading)
Failure to blog. Since I started campaigning I’ve done very little blogging. My thoughts and energies have gone instead to TikTok of all things. At (Continue Reading)
You can be fooled when you assume a White person has an intimate relationship with Black people simply because they can actually clap in time (Continue Reading)
Here is the essence of why the democratic principle that says you must be willing to lose does not work for conservatives: they believe they (Continue Reading)
First consideration: is there anyone they love? If you need a definition of love you are out of this conversation. Think of Trump: who does (Continue Reading)
No joke, as Biden would say. Between the calls for Biden to move aside (for who[m]?) and finishing Stuart Steven’s new book, The Conspiracy to (Continue Reading)
In response to a person declaring that as a faithful Catholic she doesn’t see how the Left can be worked with, read compromised with, and (Continue Reading)
For all my life I and my friends have gently ridiculed conservatives and their “bible based” crack-pot ideas about lost tribes and the naked greed (Continue Reading)
I don’t mean politically; I mean mentally. Here’s an example: most observers with more than 2 intact brain cells noticed in Trump’s quoting of a (Continue Reading)
That the U.S. became a democracy for the first time in 1965. What! you say. The breaking point is whether you can say any nation (Continue Reading)
Amendments to the Constitution that some people don’t like e.g. insurrectionists cannot serve in offices under the U.S. Definitions are important but what would we (Continue Reading)
An unlikely movie: Caste, Isabel Wilkerson’s stupendous book on caste in America (and elsewhere), subtitled “The Source of Our Discontent.” How do you make a (Continue Reading)
Is it possibly that they go on the internet, read whatever strikes their interest and supports their presuppositions and then think it’s true? In another (Continue Reading)
I just got an offer of tutoring a kid in Latin. It’s for pay and the kid lives just down the street so I’m sure (Continue Reading)
My wife tells me how the White folk driving through Phoenix and running out of gas and money would come to the Black churches for (Continue Reading)
I am still hearing about those caravans headed toward the southern border of the U.S. (which I consider starting at the Mason-Dixon Line). So as (Continue Reading)
Where are the T-shirts demanding, “Free the Fulton County Nineteen!” ????
for about a decade now. About one third of the country will believe the White House is staffed by aliens or lizard people and that (Continue Reading)