Entering A New Reality Upon the ruling by U.K.'s High Court to allow the extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questions about a free press in the United States of America…
The Real Joe Manchin: Shafting American Workers
Joe Manchin illustrates that the real division in American politics is no longer left versus right, conservative versus liberal, even Democrat versus Republican. The real division is democracy versus the moneyed interests. It's…
It’s In The Book
And Read The Fine Print A priest offered a Nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After…
Friday Serenade: Repubs Playing With Their Ding-A-Lings
208 Republicans Playing With IT, They're Not Protecting Our Democracy It seems simple enough – you want to protect our democracy or you don't. Unfortunately, but not surprising, 208 House Republications voted they do…
President Joe Biden Warns That U.S. Democracy In Decline
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! At Thursday's virtual Summit for Democracy, President Biden repeated warnings from the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance that the United States is among the growing number of…
I’m OK. Really…
Health Advocates Sue to Force FDA Decision on Petitions to Ban Phthalates in Food ~ While FDA delays, children and adults consume dangerous levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in foods. Health advocates represented by Earthjustice…
Wednesday WayBack: Yes, History Repeats; A Short Reading List
A Little Obsession Is Good Obsession Received a couple of e-mails recently suggesting I might be obsessed with the idea today's Republicans are a Nazi-like political party. Well, I think 'obsessed' could be an…
It’s In The Playbook. They Like The Playbook
Who Has The Balls??? Kevin McCarthy, Republican representative from California – he's called House Minority Leader – once again shows the world how much of a coward he is and how little he cares…
Friday Serenade: No Mandates For Manly Men. But For Women, Yeah, Mandate Life And Death
POS GOP Reject Vaccine Mandates for Men, But Same Cowards Demand Pregnancy Mandates for Women One way to explain these contradictions in Republican ideology is sexism. Right wing ideology is about male power and…
Adults. Guns. Kids. Guns. Mass Murders. America’s History. Guns!
Parents Of Oxford High School Shooting Suspect Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter Ethan Crumbley's mother and father face charges in the wake of a Michigan school shooting that left four students dead and seven people…
Silence From Republican Party Leaders Speaks Volumes, Loudly
Sometimes Fear Is More Than A Lifestyle Choice Kevin McCarthy's silence on out-of-control House members of his Party engaging in full-on harassment, threats, and abuse of Democratic colleagues is not that difficult to…
It’s True. Money Can Buy You Just About Anything Or Anybody
Fox Host Demands Her Money's Worth From SCOTUS Fox News and Ted Cruz admit they paid a lot of money to have Roe overturned and now are threatening "their" Supreme Court. (via Crooks…
Wednesday WayBack: Roe v. Wade And The Supreme Court
Going to go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the Court would be seeing this differently if it was ruling on cocks. ~ Rusty coathangers are not what I'm talking about.…
Don’t Play With My Last Nerve
And The Day Begins...
Special Job For Special People
Wipe It. Wipe It Clean. King Henry VIII of England had servants who were called “Grooms of Stool” whose job it was to wipe his butt after he took a dump. During his reign,…
The Great And Simple Truths On Life
Yes, right now the planet appears to be rotating off its axis. Good-Bad, Right-Wrong, Up-Down; All seem to have become a case of mistaken identity. But some truths will never get sucked into the…
Friday Serenade: Surviving Black Friday
Choices. Always Choices Yes, this year Black Friday will be different than last, and much different than years past. But our choices remain the same. The music and images reveal to us our…
Thanksgiving, Sisters and Brothers
The First Circle Our families are the beginning, the first Circle in our lives. This Circle is to be defended with our love, our honour, our integrity, our devotion, our time, our resources, and…
Wednesday WayBack: Backsliding In The USA
On Monday, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) published results of a study that finds the United States of America is a “backsliding” democracy. “The visible deterioration of democracy in the…
Backsliding, It’s All The Rage
“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019” No American – woke or unwoke, engaged or…
When An Image Tells The Story
Democracy Dies In The Home Of The Once Brave
Oxymoron: Republicans – Free Fair Elections
'Blatant Partisan Power Grab': Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Seize Control of State's Elections “They're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open” Wisconsin Republicans, at the urging…
Friday Serenade: Nancy With The Hammer
Governing, Or At Least Trying To, Versus Fear And Loathing Led by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Democrats passed President Joe Biden's landmark $.17 billion Build Back Better bill. The…
How To Get Away With Murder In America
BE WHITE. DONE!
House Republicans Slime Their Way Into A Sewer
When one of the two governing political parties is nothing more than a cult of liars, cowards and traitors, this nation cannot survive much longer ~ So, Republican Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona got…
Wednesday WayBack: Taxpayers, We Are An Easy Mark
Wait! What? WHAT? Now that the taxpayer funded infrastructure package has been signed and the taxpayer funded Build Back Better agenda will soon be converted into 1.85 billion real U.S. dollars, a look back…
Corp Dems Pushing Right-Wing Budget Scam
Legacies, Reelections, And, Oh Yeah, The American People The infrastructure bill was signed on Monday. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Friday will score the $1.85 billion Build Back Better Act. The 'score' is…













