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",…
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…
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…
Monday Ménage, With A + 1: Leaders Are Freedom Fighters
Burns. Murphy. King. Ginsberg. It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom ~ Lucy Burns We want…
Monday Ménage: Ethics. Anxieties. Of Our Time.
Martin. Harrington. Wright. Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers ~ George R.R. Martin. There is a familiar America. It is celebrated in speeches and…
Monday Ménage, With A + 3: Speaking To Us
"The Generals and Admirals Speak to America" The former president [Trump] “is the most dangerous person to this country … A fascist to the core.” General Mark Milley, USA (ret) served as chairman…
Monday Ménage: Danger. Dancing Bear. Corporatism.
~ Elections Are Fun ~ There’s a danger in the Internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think,…
Monday Ménage: Leaders and Politicians
Not Always The Same We cannot, of course, expect every leader to possess the wisdom of Lincoln or Mandela’s largeness of soul. But when we think about what questions might be most useful…
Monday Ménage: Things That Matter. The Trustee. Our Civic Society.
~ ML King Jr. Robert Kennedy. Loretta Lynch. ~ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr. Every generation inherits a world…
WayBack Wednesday: Politics and News Media. Culture and Criticism. Truth.
~ It's Been Around For A Long Time ~ *News Media and Presidential Campaigns* The style of campaigning is symbolic of – and results from – the central role played by the mass…
Monday Ménage: Tyrannical Laws. Political Class. Not Entitled.
Montesquieu. Hall. Pollitt. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the…
Monday Ménage; With A Plus One
~ Prejudices. Citizens. Imbeciles. Elites. ~ Heinlein. Naskar. Brecht. Reich. You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. Robert A.…
Monday Ménage: Flattened Into Customers. Servility. Access & Activism.
Pullman. Pilger. Abrams. The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again; when everything in public life has a logo attached to it, when every public space is…
Monday Ménage: Right Decisions. Historical Movement. One Person.
Huerta. Davis. Charger. We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when…
Monday Ménage: Your Mind, In Trouble, By Fear
Evita Ochel. Plato. William E Gladstone. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game. Evita Ochel. Mankind will never…
Monday Ménage: Latin Accent. Access To Ballot. Favor Freedom.
Navarro. Abrams. Douglass. Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and…
Monday Ménage: By The Fireside. Accepted Patterns. What A Load of BS!
Eleanor Roosevelt. Shirley Chisholm. Margaret Trudeau. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must…
Monday Ménage: Politics. Idiots. Politics.
Roosevelt. Twain. Plato. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were…
Monday Ménage: Speaking To Mike Johnson
Lincoln. Harding. Eisenhower. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln. …
Monday Ménage: Trivial Men. Pure Wind. Politics.
Nathan. Orwell. Chisholm. Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan. Political language is designed…
Monday Ménage: Knowledge. Born Ignorant. Unbelievable Thing.
Thomas Hobbes. Baruch Spinoza. The Former Guy. Desire of knowledge, and of arts of peace, inclineth men to obey a common power; for such desire, containeth a desire of leisure; and consequently protection…
Monday Ménage: Tyrants. A Catcher’s Mitt. Realities of Democracy.
Abigail Adams. Maya Angelou. Elizabeth Warren. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion,…
Monday Ménage: Liberalism. Painful Alternative. Wisdom.
Gladstone. Galbraith. Plato. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone. Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is…
Monday Ménage: Tyrants. Misogyny. You’re Fired.
Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound…
Monday Ménage: Crafting The Legs. Participating. Realities of Democracy.
Sandra Sealy. Jessica Valenti. Elizabeth Warren. Women have always had to be creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions…
Monday Ménage: That Name. Not Yours. One Link.
Coates. Ali. Cooper. We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone Black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical—Black Power; Black Is…
Monday Ménage: Buying It. Choosing Leaders. Double Consciousness.
Truman. Kassem. Du Bois. Republicans approve of the American farmer - but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home - but not for housing. They…
Monday Ménage: Truth, Wisdom and The Courage To Speak It
~ Frederick Douglass ~ What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice…
Monday Ménage: That Special Breed
Russell. Thompson. Pevernagie. The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his…
Personal Note
Return To The Trenches
When election results on 6 November 2024 showed Donald Trump had won the Presidency, for me it was like getting punched in the face, repeatedly. I mean – repeatedly!
And now, recent sequence of events demand I get my ass back in the fight. More… posted 2025.08.31
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Project 2025 & The Military
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
In a meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals: “It’s unacceptable seeing ‘fat generals and admirals’ in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ebony McMorris, reporter for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): “Mr. President, what are your plans for—” McMorris began (one of the few Black reporters in the WH Press Corps). “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious,” said Trump. “I’m not obnoxious, but I’m trying to ask you what about your plans for Memphis, Mr. President?” “You are really obnoxious,” said Trump (president of the USA).
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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