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…
WayBack Wednesday: Sleaze-Bag Kevin Gets Balls Cut Off, In Front of The Whole World
Kevin McCarthy has groveled and slithered his way around and through the U.S. House of Representatives for years; this is no big secret. But now he has been outed, by the very people he…
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: 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…
Friday Serenade: The People Have Spoken
When We The People Vote ~ 'The People Have Spoken': Both Expelled Tennessee Democrats Win Back Their Seats Tennessee State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, members of the “Tennessee Three,” reclaimed their legislative…
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…
Friday Serenade: Away From The Crazy
Get Away From The Crazy, Even If It's For Just A Day and Evening In The Park With Friends ~ (more…)
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,…
Monday Ménage: A Catcher’s Mitt, The More Pain, No Liberty
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: 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…
Friday Serenade: It’s ‘Reject The Crazy’ Day
Let's make a Shift. Delete the Crazy. Shake things up - turn to respect, joy, togetherness, remembering we are all in this together. Life is short, so why not just read, learn, reach out…
Friday Serenade: Not Just A Song…
It's Still A Call To Action ~ EXAMPLE... Maxwell Frost Had One Word for Both Ron DeSantis and Fascism. It Began With "F" The 26-year-old freshman Democratic congressman offered a concise political rebuke of…
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 –…
WayBack Wednesday: Paul Ryan and His Principles
Lately we have been hearing much from and about Paul Ryan - former Republican Congressman of Wisconsin (1999-2019), former House Speaker (2015-2019), former vice-presidential nominee (2012) - about his opinion on Donald Trump and…
WayBack Wednesday: Nikki Haley, Her Future Is The Past
Nikki Haley, former Governor of South Carolina and U.N. Ambassador in the Trump Administration, announced she is running for President of the United States of America, 2024. The core of her campaign, she says,…
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…
Looking Back Looking Ahead 2022~2023
Our Picks... ~~ They Didn’t Like The Rule of Law or Constitutions, Either. Until, Of Course, It Was Their Rules and Laws Posted 2022.09.07 During his recent prime time speech outside Independence Hall in…
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…
Wednesday WayBack: Ya Can’t Laugh. Can’t Feel Sorry For The Guy. But, Damn!!!
Here we go again: Trump, The GOP, and Crazy Time So, as expected, Donald 'Can I Be More Pathetic' Trump made his announcement – he's running again for President of The United States of…













