Lasch. Ebenstein/Fogelman. Kohn. Every society reproduces its culture – its norms, its underlying assumptions, its modes of organising experience – in the individual, in the form of personality; Personality is the individual socialised.…
Friday Serenade: A Repeat As Reminder: Still Looking For Mr. Blue Sky
~ Keep Searching. The Planet and All People On It Need Us ~ (more…)
WayBack Wednesday: The Flailing Sermonette vs The Receipts
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) on a CNN panel 'discussion' continued with Republican's flailing sermonette insisting everyone who took part in the more than 2,700 No Kings protest rallies on Saturday across the nation were…
Monday Ménage: Tenaciousness. Willing To Fight. Change Happens.
Waters. Murphy. Bachelet. (more…)
Friday Serenade: But On Saturday!
~ Local No Kings Rallies ~ American Patriots Stand Up and Speak Out ~ (more…)
WayBack Wednesday: History Is Our Reminder
~ The Receipts ~ Jim Jordan Just Fine With Trump Weaponizing DOJ. House Judiciary Committee Chair, Jim Jordan (R-OH), was asked recently on CNN about Trump naming three people in a Truth Social post,…
Truth, Wisdom and Courage
Frederick Douglas Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade…
Monday Ménage And A Plus 1: Politics Can Hurt You
Stevenson. Swift. White. Montesquieu. (more…)
Reminder: Oklahoma City 1995
A terrorist attack in 1995 at a Oklahoma City federal building killed 168 people including 19 children and over 850 were injured. The bomber Timothy McVeigh, a U.S. Army veteran, had ties to right-wing…
Friday Serenade: How You Like Him Now?
Planned Hospital In SE Kansas No Longer Happening; Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill” Blamed. "Earlier today, I received a call from Freeman Health System CEO Matt Fry informing me of their decision not…
WayBack Wednesday: No Cure For Lying When It’s Just Your Nature
Speaker Mike Johnson continues to push the much-proved-lie about "healthcare for illegal aliens". The lie is a favorite of Republicans and the MAGAsphere. But a lie is a lie no matter who pushes it…
Today, Take A Moment. Then Get Back Into Focus.
Many people in the United States of America - not all but many - have lost focus on the release of the Epstein files, the lasting impact of the forced changes to the economy,…
Monday Ménage: Dignity. Fear. Reason.
Fromm. Martel. Einstein. A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale",…
Centrist Is A Dirty Word
Two blond suburban moms give Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem. ~ Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan have risen up the podcast charts, buoyed by Democrats looking to commiserate and find…
Friday Serenade: Really, It’s Quite Simple. No Hate! No Scary! No Chaos!
It's Called Freedom ~~ This Is Not Freedom “We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.” ‘Surreal Moment for America’: ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes,…
Outraged! OUTRAGED!! I’M OUTRAGED, I Tell Ya…
California Republican Senator Brian Dahle is outraged. His outrage is directed at California Governor Gavin Newsom: "More inflammatory rhetoric from Newsom to invoke far-left radicalism." Ya can't blame the guy. I mean Newsom…
WayBack Wednesday: Fluttering and Flailing In A Wave Of False Claims
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday fluttered, flailed, and danced around reporters fact-checking his claim that Democrats were responsible for the government shut down because 'they wanted to lavish undocumented immigrants with…
Make The Choice: It’s Now Or Never. The Annual, ’25
US of A: Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places ~ That all beings are great and all are part of and responsible to the Whole is a world view based on the…
Monday Ménage: Elementary. Governments. Puppets.
Frank. Herbert. Ochel. Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government…
Friday Serenade: Don’t Get Caught In The Crossfire
Rights. Democracy. Freedom. A Matter Of Choice. Choose Wisely (more…)
Yeah, It Was A Day…
With Mother Earth (more…)
WayBack Wednesday: A Miscomprehension Of Leadership
Trump's 'speech' at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday was a nearly hour-long screed about two of his favorite targets: immigration and green energy. Speaking as the president of the United States of…
Making Changes With Calmness, Joy, Determination
The United States of America has embarked on yet another journey; but this journey is one which is taking the nation down the road to ruin. We must not be too afraid to change…
Monday Ménage: Politicians. Impostors. Elections.
Eisenhower. Malraux. Ivins. ~~~ Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower. A political leader is necessarily an…
Friday Serenade: Yeah, It’s Been A Week
~ It's Been Some Kinda Week ~ Free Speech, Jimmy Kimmel, Republicans, Climate Change, Pam Bondi, DOJ Deletes Study Showing Right-Wing Most Dangerous to Democracy, ICE Arrests American Citizens, Attack On Social Security Looking…
Red Alert! Red Alert!
Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air. His crime, he spoke the truth on his late night show on ABC; a few truths surrounding the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel's firing…
WayBack Wednesday: Unanticipated? Nah, Not So Much
With Trump, his administration, and the cadre of sycophants endlessly blaming every thing on the 'radical left', one should not be surprised, then, to learn that the DOJ has deleted from their website a…














