Buffalo? Uvalde? I still haven’t wrapped my head around Sandy Hook. How about Parkland? And…… and………. Orlando……… and Denver……….. and Aurora…….. and ……… I think (Continue Reading)
Buffalo? Uvalde? I still haven’t wrapped my head around Sandy Hook. How about Parkland? And…… and………. Orlando……… and Denver……….. and Aurora…….. and ……… I think (Continue Reading)
Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC’s The Last Word began his show May 10th saying the world does not understand us, the U.S. Looking at the SCOTUS (Continue Reading)
Pre-decision:The purpose of the release may have been to:elicit massive protests eliciting ‘adjustments’ in the opinion.force wavers, Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, to firm up so as (Continue Reading)
I find conservatism egregiously wrong from the start (unless you like living in a cave)………..and its reasoning exceptionally weak (no change unless it benefits me) (Continue Reading)
Our Arizona Representative, Ruben Gallego, thought through Mike Pence’s refusal to get into the car to whisk him away from danger and realize it was (Continue Reading)
We have a contrast. When it became clear that Nixon had to go, it was Republicans, including, most famously, Barry Goldwater, who went to him (Continue Reading)
Have you ever noticed that the big issues in the GOP have to do in some way, no matter how great a stretch, with sex? (Continue Reading)
For a lot of people, the election of Obama caused them to ejaculate, “I want my country back!” Eight years later, another president was elected (Continue Reading)
African music as found in the western half of the continent has an overall shape despite major distinctions from north to south. This music came (Continue Reading)
Kurt Andersen has made clear the course of thinking in this country derived from Milton Friedman: nothing matters more that making money except making more (Continue Reading)
When a conservative savages a poor person, a person of putative lower status, or anyone at a disadvantage, we liberals rush to their defense. But (Continue Reading)
My wife watches a lot of English soap opera and mysteries. Most of them have a character, principal or marginal, who is Black. Over time, (Continue Reading)
Joseph Holloway writes in Africanisms in American Culture that the slaves brought with them their musical culture. That resulted in them reshaping the European American (Continue Reading)
When I saw the faces of the young people caught up in the police dragnet in Belarus, I saw the future of our children and (Continue Reading)
Michael Steele, former RNC chair, said a friend asked him a good question concerning the Trump/Insurrection supporters: how do you reason someone out of a (Continue Reading)
So interesting how we talk about the rage of the Trump voters, the left-behind. How about this though?Just tonight (Dec. 9, 2021) I was listening (Continue Reading)
In his Atlantic article, “Are We Doomed?” George Packer has two lines that went to something I’ve been saying ever since the rise of Trump. (Continue Reading)
This morning I was standing in line waiting for a blood test. Four of us got to chatting. About the time the doors opened, the (Continue Reading)
“I understand what you mean but we don’t say it that way.” How many times have you heard someone tell you that as you foundered (Continue Reading)
Isabel Wilkerson so deftly put into frame and focus the experience of Black Americans, I wondered as I read what the obverse of that coin (Continue Reading)
The statues some people find objectionable are typically those of men who exploited and extracted, at least in the Americas. We usually don’t get excited (Continue Reading)
A friend sent me a video by Bob and Brad. On the side I saw one titled 10 exercises you should not do. Two of (Continue Reading)
Sitting here listening to a series of performances of Agbadza, the ever popular Ewe dance music, I realized the nature of that pulse, what many (Continue Reading)