Watching, and listening to, insurrectionists heckle President Joe Biden during the State of the Union Address last night (video and transcript), I was reminded of the bad old days – the many bad days…
America: Looking Back, Looking Forward
I have been accused of being too negative, too doom and gloom, about America. So, let's compare America, with images, for the years 2016-2020, 2021, and what we can expect in this new year…
Friday Serenade: Say Goodbye. Party In Wonderland. Then Hold On.
Say Goodbye To 2021 And Forget That Shit Hole Of A Year. Party For A Few Hours Tonight Then Hold On Tight For What's Coming In 2022. (more…)
Friday Serenade: Story Of The Year – Democracy In Crisis
Democracy Crisis in the Making Report Update: 2021 Year-End Numbers Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process As 2021 draws…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
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…
What Do They Have In Common
Joe Manchin, Democratic Senator West Virginia; Krysten Sinema, Democratic Senator Arizona; Matthew Gaetz, Republican Representative Florida; Mike Pence, Republican former Vice-President; Mitch McConnell, Republican Senator Kentucky. BLOWHARD: 1. A very boastful and talkative…
Yay! U.S. Up One In 2021
Reporters Without Borders 2021 World Press Freedom Index The United States moved up one spot in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, from 45th to 44th. That's 45th out of 180. What an achievement!…
Labor Day. Good News Bad News
America celebrates Labor Day – but are US workers winning? Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, says increased worker bargaining power could last longer-term. Dube says that numerous factors have…
Hmmm…
Coincidence? There's No Coincidence In Politics! On 6 July in 1854, the Republican Party was officially organized in Jackson, Michigan. On 6 July 1923, the Central Executive Committee accepted the Treaty of Union and…
It’s Flag Day
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all…
Democracy: It’s Complicated and Fragile
It's Always About Choices During his Memorial Day 2021 address to the nation President Joe Biden warned that U.S. democracy is in danger of failing: “The mission falls to each of us,…
Democracy: Ya Gotta Fight For It
“There Is a Ticking Timebomb” Republican controlled states across the country are moving more aggressively with their democracy-killing agenda to make voting as difficult as possible in counties where Blacks, Latinos and low-income…
Danger Ahead: Anti-Democracy Drift
Reminders “The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking…
Sunday Morning Talk-News 2021
The Minister Would Be Very Proud
Is This The End Or The Beginning
Lindsey Graham: Sick, Twisted, Flat Out POS Coward Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no. I’ve always liked Liz Cheney but she’s made a determination that the Republican…
Net Neutrality: Now More Than Ever
Telecom Giants Funded 'Secret Campaign' to Flood FCC With Fake Net Neutrality Comments "This investigation shows how low the industry will stoop to undermine even the most basic and benign safeguards." By Common Dreams.org…
A Free Press Means A Free People
World Press Freedom Day 'Startling Extent of Police Violence Against Journalists' Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press released its annual report on the state of press freedom in the U.S. 5 Takeaways:…
Just Sunday Drivin’
Are We There Yet?
International Workers Day
Happy May Day International Workers’ Day was established to honour lives lost at the Haymarket Affair / Haymarket Massacre that took place in Chicago on May 4, 1886. The confrontation between police and…
THE Image
Madame Speaker. Madame Vice-President.
When An Image Tells The Story: Maxine Edition
Ieshia Evans Getting Confrontational Ieshia Evans is facing straight on a large number of heavily-armed police at a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016 following the shooting (multiple times)…
History As Reminder: GOP Jobs Edition
While former Speaker John Boehner continues on his 'I have a new book coming out' rehabilitation tour, beltway press and media pundits laugh at his wine-flavoured jokes about past and current people in politics…
Monday Ménage
George Santayana. Adlai Stevenson. Dante Alighieri. The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the…
Monday Ménage
Benjamin Franklin. Isaac Asimov. Barbara Ehrenreich. I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form…
The Playbook Reads Familiar
It's Getting Serious, Folks. Georgia Republicans Go Even Farther Right. While Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp was signing the now-known-around-the-world 98-page anti-democracy Republican voter suppression bill, state Representative Park Cannon knocked on his closed…
‘Vicious Attack on Voting Rights’
Looks Familiar (Except For The Masks) "Sick" and "Un-American" Georgia governor Brian Kemp signs 95 page GOP voter suppression bill less than two hours after Georgia's Republican lawmakers gave final approval to…














