Kennedy. Hart. Chase Smith. If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the…
Monday Ménage: Edition 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: Edition Demagogue, Green Grass, and The Poor Bastards
Aristophanes. Pevernagie. Thompson. You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful…
Monday Ménage: Edition Democracy, Voting, and Sitting On Your Blisters
Mahadani. Kassem. Lincoln. Last night I taught my daughter about democracy by asking her to vote for the pizza she wanted to eat and then I ordered fried rice because I am the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Broken Ribs, Fascism, and Cognitive Testing
Muscio. Wolfe. TFG. What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of…
Monday Menage: Edition Democracy, Morons, and The Constitution
Asimov. Mencken. Lincoln. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political…
Monday Ménage: Politics, Imagery, and Living Without Food
Frank. McLuhan. Roberts. Vice-President Richard Nixon, speaking to members of California's Commonwealth Club, was asked if he'd like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment - the sort that has since taken…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics, Leaders, Elections
Rose. Kassem. Abrams. Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. Larken Rose. Pick a leader who will keep jobs…
Monday Ménage: Edition Information, Democracy, and Dancing Bears
de Bono. Isenberg. Pilger. 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, you…
Monday Ménage: Edition Indigenous Peoples Day(s); Reflection With Honour
Red Cloud. Churchill. Sams. The white man made us many promises, but he kept only one. He promised to take our land, and he took it. Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota, 1882. The…
Monday Ménage: Edition Animals, Comedians, Politicians
Butler. Rogers. Carlin. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler. Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.…
Monday Ménage – With A Plus 1: Edition Easy To Be A Puppet
Sagan. Herbert. Frank. Ochel. One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in…
Monday Ménage: Edition Presidential Farewells – Not All Hit The Mark
Washington. Obama. Trump. George Washington / 1 The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in…
Monday Ménage: Edition U.S. Fundamentalists and Russia, The Hyde Amendment and Reagan’s Court Packing, SCOTUS and The Same Tilt
Vanden Heuvel. Demause. Schwartz. Beyond the bloody events in Moscow last month that transfixed the world and jolted the country's political life, there is another, more subterranean battle going on for the Russian…
Monday Ménage: Edition Judging Judges Who Shouldn’t Be Judging
Over the objections of the United States Department of Justice, District Judge Aileen Cannon, nominated by Trump in 2020, granted a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master…
Labor Day 2022. Happy Happy
A History... Before it was a federal holiday, Labor Day was recognized by labor activists and individual states. After municipal ordinances were passed in 1885 and 1886, a movement developed to secure state legislation.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Cherish Freedom, Submissive People, Moving Offshore
Albright. Berry. Schweizer. 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 to…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics and Corruption; Corruption and Politicians
Sallust. Floyd. Hopes. Frequent mobs, seditions, and at last civil wars, became common, while a few leading men on whom the masses were dependent, affected supreme power under the seemly pretence of seeking…
Monday Ménage: Edition America. It’s The Culture, Stupid
Saunders. Bryson. Fry. Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has…
Monday Ménage: Edition Doesn’t Spread, Leaders, Dogged Strength!
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 are strong…
Monday Ménage: Edition Kissing, Easily Aroused, and All Puffed Up
Truman. Russell. Nietzsche. The President has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues. The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make…
Monday Ménage: Conception, Conflictinator, and a Smart Phone
Carlin. Stewart. Roberts. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Group Hatreds, Systematic Politics, Human Madness
Hofstadter. MacIntyre. Kristeva. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics…
Monday Ménage: Edition Intestine Disorder, Unaided Impulses, Only A Step
Hobbes. Spinoza. Ebenstein/Fogelman. Though nothing can be immortal, which mortals make; yet, if men had the use of reason they pretend to, their commonwealths might be secured, at least from perishing by internal…
Monday Ménage: Edition American History, Lessons Not Learned. A Replay
Berlet / Lyons. Nichols. Nixon. We have been studying the armed militias with a group of more than 100 analysts and reporters for many months. The issue for us was never if there…
Monday Ménage: Edition Precedents and Warnings
Halperin. Kershaw. Washington.
Monday Ménage: Edition Distant Plateau, False Promises, Immoral Flaws
Lewis. Malcolm X. Davis. Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Guns, Death, and America
Peterson. Jefferies. Bufogle. Despite all of the chatter, there is little to no indication that a psychiatric diagnosis has any predictive value when it comes to gun violence. Being diagnosed with illness [x]…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Edition Orators, Gladhand, Everything and Bullshit Consumption
Aristophanes. de Beaumarchais. Mencken. Pearlheart. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on…