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…
Danger Ahead? The Day After…
American Democracy Took A Step Back From The Brink Still Might Collapse; There Is 2024 To Look Forward To But, For Now, Let Us Smile Psst... still fair to compare.
Monday Ménage: Danger Ahead? A Repeat of a Repeat of a Repeat of a…
⇒America's Democracy Is On The Brink Of Collapse⇒ It Is Fair To Compare
Wednesday WayBack: Elections and Consequences, A Reminder
America, We Hardly Know Ya Posted here 2020.05.15 In the midst of a world-wide pandemic that has already killed over 85,000 Americans and on track to kill well over 100,000, Donald Trump continues his…
Friday Serenade: America, It’s Time. Courage Required
In less than three weeks, the courage of We, The People of this Nation, will be tested in ways most have only read about in History books. At stake is the very foundation of…
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…
Friday Serenade: America, You’ve Been Laughing All Along
Now I Look A Fool For Thinking You Were On My Side ~ Here's A Glimpse Into A Decline (more…)
Wednesday WayBack: Flying Their True Colours
Last week 203 House Republicans voted against legislation preventing U.S. Presidents from using the Electoral Count Act to overturn the will of the People. The bill did pass 229-203: every House Democrat present voted…
Wednesday WayBack: tfg. desantis. abbott. graham. mcconnell. fox. and the rest of them…
Cowards Still At It History As Reminder: America? 2018-11-27 And They Are Still Coming 2020-06-19 They’re Still Coming 2021-05-01 And They Are Still Coming… 2022-04-28
Wednesday WayBack: They Didn’t Like The Rule of Law or Constitutions, Either. Until, Of Course, It Was Their Rules and Laws
During his recent prime time speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 1, President Joe Biden revived his campaign mantra - 'Battle For The Soul of The Nation'. But on that warm Thursday…
Friday Serenade: Exhausted Still
A participating member at DemocraticUnderground.com posted a truthful, and, yes, haunting essay on his frustration with the current state of affairs in the United States. He asks the question: Anyone else just utterly exhausted,…
How Many Bombshells Is It Going to Take
Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice have to this point resisted calls to charge the former president for his role in the assault on the U.S. Capitol - which resulted in…
Hey Joe! Don’t Be A Nero. Stop Fiddling!
Fight for Us Goddamnit': Frustration Grows Over Biden Fecklessness Amid GOP Destruction via CommonDreams.org We simply cannot make promises, hector people to vote, and then refuse to use our full power when they do:…
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…
Friday Serenade: Free For We Not For Thee
None of Us Are Free If One of Us In Chains Anyone who's lived long enough has seen the Supreme Court issue a ruling they didn't like. This is not that. No, what made…
Wednesday WayBack: Going Backwards and They Won’t Stop Until It’s In Ruins
Supreme Court Ruling Turns Separation of Church and State Into 'Constitutional Violation,' Warns Sotomayor United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the court's right-wing majority had further eroded the nation's…
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.…
Wednesday WayBack: Does History Really Repeat Itself? Well Kinda…
From what We The People have been told thus far, the January 6 Select Committee public hearings beginning in prime time tomorrow, Thursday, 9 June, 2022, will reveal the current state of U.S. Democracy,…
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…
Friday Serenade: Continuous Action
Creating outrage, creating the ‘others’, has worked as policy since political parties were themselves created. Recently it worked for the former guy and now is working for the current cabal of far-right fascism-loving…
Wednesday WayBack: Horrible Human, A History
This Truly Horrible Human Being Is Still At It – Helping To Destroy What's Left of American Democracy Right-wing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia confirmed that he is opposed to the Women's…
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…
Wednesday WayBack: Reproductive Rights, Civil Liberties & The Attack on The Constitution – Part Deux
Posted here 2021.09.02 Taliban Unleashed, In The U.S. Coming Soon To A State Near You The American Taliban, formerly known as the Republican Party, with full support from conservative fanatics on the Supreme Court,…
Wednesday WayBack: Reproductive Rights, Civil Liberties and The Attack on The Constitution
Posted here 2021.12.01 Going to go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the Court would be seeing this differently if it was ruling on cocks and balls. ~ Rusty coathangers…
And They Are Still Coming…
Don't Be Like The 'I Am Not' Guy ~ Stand Up. Speak Out.
Wednesday WayBack: Choosing Deception and Destruction Over Decency
Republican member of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has proven he is not only a liar but that he is also a coward and a man without an once of integrity.…
Wednesday WayBack: Comprehension and Accommodation
It wasn't a big secret. The signs were there. Even his friends and insiders who hated him (sometimes they were the same) saw it. But they looked at History and said fuck it. Maybe…













