Sandra Sealy. Jessica Valenti. Elizabeth Warren. Women have always had to be creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions…
Monday Ménage: That Name. Not Yours. One Link.
Coates. Ali. Cooper. We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone Black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical—Black Power; Black Is…
Monday Ménage: Equality. Benefits. Change.
Shirley Chisholm. Thurgood Marshall. Barack Obama. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true,…
Monday Ménage: That Special Breed
Russell. Thompson. Pevernagie. The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Laughing At Politicians
Barry. Rogers. Truman. Bierce. The question is why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing on national television that you have the…
Monday Ménage: Immoral Flaws, False Promises, Enchanted Gardens
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: Corporate Elite. An Occupation. Fascism.
Useem. Mills. Wolfe. The political concerns of members of the corporate elite are affected by three competing principles. These principles have fundamentally different implications for the ways in which business managers participate in…
Monday Ménage: Civic Society. Three-Ring Circus. Votes.
Lynch. Isenberg. Stalin. Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school…
Monday Ménage: Leadership. Reason. Liberal and Journalist.
Dew. Einstein. Cronkite. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. Sheri L. Dew. All…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Dancing Bears and Asses
Gonzales. de Bono. Cooper. Isenberg. Once upon a time there was a politician who made an especially conspicuous ass of himself and didn't say the newspapers misquoted him. Robert Elliott Gonzales. There's…
Monday Ménage: Apathy. Bankable Asset. Politics.
Montesquieu. Floyd. Nathan. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the…
Monday Ménage: Impostor. A Thing. Fear.
Rousseau. Fromm. Martel. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of…
Monday Ménage: Proud. Struggling. Surviving.
~ Success ~ Akwesasne Notes. LaDuke/Churchill. Alfred. The Hau de no sau nee, People of the Longhouse, who are known to many Europeans as the Six Nations Iroquois, have inhabited their territories…
Monday Ménage: Brainless Swine. Visionary Hysteria. Profit In The Republic.
Thompson. Pevernagie. Mencken. The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back…
Monday Ménage: Limited Resources. Ultimate Goal. Don’t Leave Shit Up To Others.
Sealy. Taryam. Valenti. Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions and to…
Monday Ménage: Tomorrows, Remedies, And Morons
Churchill. Marx. Borowitz. 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 explain why it…
Monday Ménage: Politics, With A Plus-One
~ Twain. Plato. Chisholm. Disraeli. ~ Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Mark Twain. One of the penalties for refusing to…
Monday Ménage: Saving Its Honor. Many More Hills. A Nation, Its History.
King. Mandela. Sigerson. We, the [B]lack people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We,…
Monday Menage: Armed Militias. Electoral Disaster. Church Burnings vs Voter Fraud.
~ 2023 - Lessons Not Learned ~ 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…
Monday Ménage: Power. Nine Women. New System.
Crenshaw. Ginsburg. Milne. It’s not about supplication, it’s about power. It’s not about asking, it’s about demanding. It’s not about convincing those who are currently in power, it’s about changing the very face…
Monday Ménage: Citizens, Prejudices, and The Imbecile
Naskar. Heinlein. Brecht. If a criminal becomes a politician, it's the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing to oust the criminals from politics, that too…
Monday Ménage: Being Equal, Lesser Than, And Kicking Ass
Truth. Khan. Angelou. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can…
Monday Ménage: D’s and R’s and Fantasies Unchecked
Hart. Kennedy. Chase Smith. It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it…
Monday Ménage: Images, With A Plus One
When Images Tell The Story (more…)
Monday Ménage: Your Mind, In Trouble, By Fear
Ochel. Plato. Gladstone. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. Evita Ochel. Mankind will never see an end…
Monday Ménage: Decide, Cannot Accept, Fear
Angelou. Davis. Suu Kyi. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou. I am no longer accepting…
Monday Ménage: The Long Suffering Voter, The Dancing Bear, Venereal Disease
La Follette. Isenberg. Ehrenreich. The official obeys whom he serves. Nominated independently of the people, elected because there is no choice between candidates so nominated, the official feels responsibility to his master alone,…













