Angelou. Montesquieu. Santayana. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou. The more pleasure…
Monday Ménage: America, A Day
Lafayette. Obama. Colbert. The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and…
Monday Ménage: Ultimate Goal, New System, Respect and Admiration
Taryam. Milne. Clark/Merkel. There needs to be a fundamental shift in the way societies view women in government, one that does not see them as mere seat-fillers or stats on a chart, they…
Monday Ménage: Small Nooks, Entire History, Bamboozled
Aurelius. Vowell. Sagan. Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the…
Monday Ménage: American History, Today
Nixon. Berlet/Lyons. Nichols. The knock on the door in the summer of 1995 surprised the Rev. James Carter. He wasn't expecting company. It was a Sunday evening, and he'd planned to catch up…
Monday Ménage: It’s All True
King. Eisenhower. Mencken. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
Monday Ménage: Number 33
Today there was another mass-shooting, mass-murder at a U.S. school. At a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, 3 children and 3 adults were murdered by a 28-year old female shooter. Today's killings marks…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus-One: Politics and Politicians, Ya Gotta Laugh
Bruce. Sandburg. Twain. Truman. The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals. Lenny Bruce. All politicians should have three hats –…
Monday Ménage: Edition Read The Words, Look At The Eyes
That this person is again running to be President of the United States of America, his words and history must be repeated over and over – if not for the future of the nation,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Crafting The Legs, Betterment of The World, Women and The Important Things
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: Edition ‘D’ and ‘R’ and Fantasies
Kennedy. Hart. Chase Smith. If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the…
Monday Ménage: Edition First Nations Peoples. Lessons
Standing Bear. Blu Barnd. Orange. Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to…
Monday Ménage: Edition Demagogue, Green Grass, and The Poor Bastards
Aristophanes. Pevernagie. Thompson. You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful…
Monday Ménage: Edition Democracy, Voting, and Sitting On Your Blisters
Mahadani. Kassem. Lincoln. Last night I taught my daughter about democracy by asking her to vote for the pizza she wanted to eat and then I ordered fried rice because I am the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Broken Ribs, Fascism, and Cognitive Testing
Muscio. Wolfe. TFG. What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of…
Monday Menage: Edition Democracy, Morons, and The Constitution
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…
Monday Ménage: Election Afterthoughts
Eisenhower. Einstein. Definitions. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.…
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: Politics, Imagery, and Living Without Food
Frank. McLuhan. Roberts. Vice-President Richard Nixon, speaking to members of California's Commonwealth Club, was asked if he'd like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment - the sort that has since taken…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics, Leaders, Elections
Rose. Kassem. Abrams. Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. Larken Rose. Pick a leader who will keep jobs…
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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Indigenous Peoples Day(s); Reflection With Honour
Red Cloud. Churchill. Sams. The white man made us many promises, but he kept only one. He promised to take our land, and he took it. Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota, 1882. The…
Monday Ménage: Edition Animals, Comedians, Politicians
Butler. Rogers. Carlin. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler. Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.…
Monday Ménage – With A Plus 1: Edition Easy To Be A Puppet
Sagan. Herbert. Frank. Ochel. 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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Presidential Farewells – Not All Hit The Mark
Washington. Obama. Trump. George Washington / 1 The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in…
Monday Ménage: Edition U.S. Fundamentalists and Russia, The Hyde Amendment and Reagan’s Court Packing, SCOTUS and The Same Tilt
Vanden Heuvel. Demause. Schwartz. Beyond the bloody events in Moscow last month that transfixed the world and jolted the country's political life, there is another, more subterranean battle going on for the Russian…
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…













