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…
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…
49 Republicans
"There is nothing more important than ensuring our veterans and their families can enjoy a safe and healthy life after their service to our country" On Thursday, 29 September, 2022, the U.S. House of…
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.…
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…
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…
Wednesday WayBack: Asked and Answered
In a campaign-style speech Tuesday in Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden FINALLY got serious about calling out officials in the highest levels of government who refuse to denounce the armed Capitol rioters, the pro-Trump insurrectionists,…
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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics and Corruption; Corruption and Politicians
Sallust. Floyd. Hopes. Frequent mobs, seditions, and at last civil wars, became common, while a few leading men on whom the masses were dependent, affected supreme power under the seemly pretence of seeking…
Wednesday WayBack: Misplaced Loyalties Will Tear Out Your Heart
Yes, Liz Cheney did a good job as Vice Chair of the January 6 Committee. The Congresswoman from Wyoming, like no other on the committee, made clear to everyone that her mission was not…
Wednesday WayBack: History Can and Does Repeat Itself – When Allowed
As detailed in an excellent piece at Crooks And Liars, the far-right, fascism-loving MAGA Mob is taking its cue from the former guy (TFG) and going after judges and FBI agents. They, and the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Kissing, Easily Aroused, and All Puffed Up
Truman. Russell. Nietzsche. The President has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues. The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make…
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,…
Monday Ménage: Conception, Conflictinator, and a Smart Phone
Carlin. Stewart. Roberts. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
Wednesday WayBack: Unambiguous
There's much excitement about Thursday's Prime Time January 6 Committee Hearing during which we are promised to be witness to clear and precise details around the 178 minutes when the former president watched but…
Monday Ménage: Edition Group Hatreds, Systematic Politics, Human Madness
Hofstadter. MacIntyre. Kristeva. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics…
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…
Monday Ménage: Edition Intestine Disorder, Unaided Impulses, Only A Step
Hobbes. Spinoza. Ebenstein/Fogelman. Though nothing can be immortal, which mortals make; yet, if men had the use of reason they pretend to, their commonwealths might be secured, at least from perishing by internal…
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…













