VoteVets is standing with Rags of Honor (a shop that employs homeless veterans) to honor the military service and sacrifice of the McCain family. At this year’s national Fourth of July celebration we'll be…
Monday Ménage, And A Plus One
Winston Churchill. Oscar Ameringer. Pat Paulsen. A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to…
Do Not Gulp!
A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the Monsignor how he had done. The Monsignor replied: “When I am worried about getting nervous…
The Day The Lady Arrived, In Pieces…
On 17 June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. The Lady was shipped from France in 350 individual pieces. She was reassembled and dedicated in 1886. Is she being broken…
History As Reminder: A Message For Our Time
While in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote a message to the people of South Africa suffering under the boot of apartheid. The message was smuggled out of Robben Island prison and made public on 10…
When You’re In Over Your Head, Quit Digging
A husband and wife were having problems at home and had been giving each other that good old silent treatment since early Tuesday. But late Wednesday the man remembered that the next day he…
Number One: On This Day 1933
James Brown 3 May 1933 - 25 December 2006 Living in America
Monday Ménage
Meg Greenfied. Claire Sargent. Caroline Baum. If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do,…
Take A Break. It’s Time For Wednesday Humour
Keyword – Unarmed
On This Day, 16 April 1818: The U.S. Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
Take A Break
Yeah, go ahead - laugh at journos bloopers.
Monday Ménage
Wayne Chirisa. Evita Ochel. Anthony T Hincks. Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed. Wayne Chirisa. (more…)
Effect Of Race and Gender On Campaign Fundraising
PRESS RELEASE: OpenSecrets.org (Center for Responsive Politics). New report through US 2050 details the effect of race and gender on campaign fundraising. The Center for Responsive Politics is pleased to announce the publication of…
Monday Ménage
H.L. Mencken. Albert Einstein. Hermione Gingold. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of…
Wednesday Wisdom
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by…
An Image. No, Not Trump’s Budget. No…?
5th Avenue, New York City 1913. See the 2020 budget proposal here
Monday Ménage
Christine Milne. Serena Williams. Charlotte Bronte. Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and discriminated against, it's not OK to…
Not Fake News
Man, I’ve Got A Headache…
But seriously folks, this work - "Polygon Riviera" - is on display in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
Third Way, Wrong Way
How Third Way Democrats Could Get Trump Re-elected. The New Democracy PAC and Other Centrist Groups Want You To Learn All The Wrong Lessons From 2016. Joel Bleifuss, editor & publisher of In These…
Monday Ménage
Booker T. Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. Sojourner Truth. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to…
Happy Birthday
Bob Marley is 74 today. Alive and well in the hearts and minds of people all over the planet. Get Up, Stand Up!
World Press Freedom Index 2018
The United States dropped a couple of spots (again) in the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. In the 2018 Index, the U.S. places 45th; behind South Korea at 43rd and…
Monday Ménage
H.L. Mencken. George Orwell. Julian Barnes. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks…
Alexandria, She Just Makes Ya Smile
Put the crazy aside for a moment... Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / New York's 14th congressional district (more…)













