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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Conservatives, Resentment, Erroneous Assumptions
Carlin. Russell. Postman. 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 Politics, Evil, Degenerate
Washington. Adams. Havel. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and…
Monday Ménage: Edition Wretchedness, Resistance, Enfranchisement
Equiano. Wells-Barnett. Holder. O, ye nominal Christians! … Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? … Why are…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Edition Whorehouse Politicians Resisting Politics
Truman. Churchill. Phillips. Pericles. My choice early in life was between whether to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. I…
Monday Ménage: Edition Fear, Suffering, and Nobody
Martel. Fromm. Rousseau. I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has…
Monday Ménage: Edition Charlatans, Corporations, and Government
Sagan. Jensen. Hayes. 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 finding…
Your Sunday Reads
Short list: Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians. Ward Churchill. 1992. “The white man made us many promises, but he kept only one. He promised to take…
Monday Ménage: Edition Honour, Assumptions, and Revolution
Blatch. Linkola. Khaled. Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who, unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement…
Monday Ménage: Edition Chocolately Classes Conflict
Vowell. Marx. Asimov. Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that…
Monday Ménage: Edition War, Morality, and Mankind
King. Rousseau. O'Brien. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never…













