Thomas Frank. Henry Wallace. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school:…
Trump’s Midnight Pardons: A Mixed List of Merited and Political Plays
A Few Notables: Stephen K. Bannon. Kwame Kilpatrick. Randall “Duke” Cunningham. William “Ed” Henry. Representative Rick Renzi. Bill K. Kapri - AKA Kodak Black... Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency…
Is History Our Future?
History Is Teacher; We Learn or We Perish. Near the end of 1923, an odd, self-absorbed little man was arrested and charged with sedition and treason for his part in what became known as…
Monday Reminder: America, Pay Attention
Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…
Worse Of The Worst: #1
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. It Rings True Posted 2020.09.04 As a veteran who…
Worse Of The Worst: #2
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. ICE Cops Launching Six-Week Training Camp Creating A U.S.…
Worse Of The Worst: #4
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. GOP Backing Trump's Attempted Coup Posted 2020.11.10 Sycophant and…
How Do You Like Me Now…
Trump Kills U.S. Troop Pay Raise Donald Trump likes to rant about how much he loves the military; that he knows 'military', that he is 'military'. Well, for the first time in 59 consecutive…
Atrocious Congress
U.S. House overwhelmingly passes Omnibus Spending Bill which appears almost as an afterthought to include some - but little Covid relief. 'Congress only has $600 for COVID relief but they managed to cram in…
Will Our Democracy Survive? Don’t Bet On It
So stunned by Donald Trump's latest attack on our democracy (Trump Reportedly Floated Michael Flynn's "Martial Law" Suggestion During White House Meeting), top U.S. Army brass felt it necessary to immediately issue a joint…
Monday Ménage
Joe Hill. H.L. Mencken. Aesop. The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to…
SEDITION. PERIOD!
Former Army Lt. General, former National Security Advisor in Trump Administration, admitted criminal (guilty of twice lying to the FBI), fired by Trump, pardoned by Trump, and, good buddy of Vladimir Putin, Michael Flynn,…
Yes, Sounds Familiar…
Enough Already! Trump, McConnell, And The Rest Of GOP Maniacs, Do A Stimulus. Our People Are Hungry And Losing Their Homes.
Monday Ménage
Albert Einstein. George Orwell. Will Rogers. For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and…
War Mongers and Sycophants and Psychopaths: A Replay
As the drums of war grow louder inside the White House and as Trump's orgasmic dreams of bombing Iran on his way out get more vivid, I remembered a post put up here in…
Definitions As Reminder; Infinity
When Truth Jumps Up And Bites You On The Ass
America 2020. Or, America 2024
Ain't History Something... "In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis." See how…
GOP Backing Trump’s Attempted Coup
Sycophant and second-in-command wannabe Bill Barr, the pretend Attorney General for The United States of America, has unleashed U.S. attorneys across the country with orders to try to find instances of voter fruad. Barr’s…
Monday Ménage
Stacey Abrams. Barbara Jordan. Martin Luther Ling Jr. When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and…
Day Zero Plus One
We wait. What's ahead? Dark days, sliding into autocracy or Bright days with a stronger Democracy.
Three Day Out Refresher
Let's face it, some gifts are just better than others (more…)
Five Day Out Refresher
Holy Hypocrites. This Guy For Four More? Really?
Monday Ménage
Benjamin Franklin. Eduardo Paes. Nancy Pearcey. 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 of…
Down The Rabbit Hole Of Polls
Ah, The China Wall. We’re Rounding The Corner…
Trump's China Secret Not A Secret Any More. Donald Trump and his cadre of sycophants have spent many months attacking Joe Biden on, well, anything and everything, including his son Hunter's business dealings in…













