Welcome to the Country of Death with Politicians Who Don't Give A F*ck! UPDATE: Police Confirm A 7th Person Dead. A 22-year old male using a high-powered rifle shooting from a rooftop at a…
Friday Serenade: Free For We Not For Thee
None of Us Are Free If One of Us In Chains Anyone who's lived long enough has seen the Supreme Court issue a ruling they didn't like. This is not that. No, what made…
Monday Ménage: Edition Distant Plateau, False Promises, Immoral Flaws
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.…
Wednesday WayBack: Does History Really Repeat Itself? Well Kinda…
From what We The People have been told thus far, the January 6 Select Committee public hearings beginning in prime time tomorrow, Thursday, 9 June, 2022, will reveal the current state of U.S. Democracy,…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Edition Orators, Gladhand, Everything and Bullshit Consumption
Aristophanes. de Beaumarchais. Mencken. Pearlheart. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on…
Monday Ménage: Edition Conservatives, Resentment, Erroneous Assumptions
Carlin. Russell. Postman. 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: Horrible Human, A History
This Truly Horrible Human Being Is Still At It – Helping To Destroy What's Left of American Democracy Right-wing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia confirmed that he is opposed to the Women's…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics, Evil, Degenerate
Washington. Adams. Havel. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and…
Friday Serenade: Losing The Love
Losing The Love - When You Don't Fight For It There is “a sharp decline in enthusiasm among the people who put the White House and Congress in Democratic hands, contributing significantly to…
Wednesday WayBack: Choosing Deception and Destruction Over Decency
Republican member of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy has proven he is not only a liar but that he is also a coward and a man without an once of integrity.…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Edition Whorehouse Politicians Resisting Politics
Truman. Churchill. Phillips. Pericles. My choice early in life was between whether to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. I…
Friday Serenade: Groveling and Slithering and Principles Revealed
Love and Fear in Washington politics - A Coward's Timeline: Republican House Member Kevin McCarthy told fellow Republican members he’d encourage Trump to resign; Kevin McCarthy had a change of heart and abandoned…
Monday Ménage: Edition Kissing and Kicking and Passions and Exploitation
Russell. Truman. Lewis. 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: Edition Chocolately Classes Conflict
Vowell. Marx. Asimov. Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that…
Monday Ménage: Edition Presidents, With a Plus 1
Harding. Eisenhower. Carter. Obama. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive…
Monday Ménage: Edition Givers and Takers
Dhliwayo. Xinindlu. Malloy. True leaders are givers, not takers; builders, not destroyers; doers, not talkers; encouragers, not flatterers; lovers, not haters; warriors, not worriers; forgivers, not shamers; performers, not complainers; achievers, not quitters;…
Wednesday WayBack: History, Ain’t It Something
Writing at CommonDreams.org, Thom Hartmann asks the question on the minds of many Americans: Will US Turn Away From Fascism and Abandon This GOP Death Cult Before It's Too Late? Hartmann: The current Republican…
Friday Serenade: AWWH, Jeff, It’s Over
Back when Donald Trump was a washed-up businessman, with a checkered history of bankruptcies, racism and failed real estate projects, it was Jeff Zucker, then the president of NBC Entertainment, who decided to resurrect…
Wednesday WayBack: Tripping All Over Themselves
A number of leading Republican senators are tripping over themselves trying to hide from questions about Trump's promise at a recent Texas rally that if he's elected in 2024 he will pardon the January…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and Demonic People
Murat ildan. Vanderbuilt. Muscio. One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such…
Monday Ménage: Edition Social Media, News, Librarians
Wylie. Aral. Vonnegut. The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through owned…
Friday Serenade: American Experiment, Crushed By Minority Rule
We Have Journeyed Far From Here ~ Supreme Court Blocks Biden The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its emergency rule mandating that workers at large businesses get vaccinated or undergo regular…
Prez Gave His Speech. It Was A Nice Speech. We Like Nice Speeches
President Joe Biden on Tuesday gave a speech in Atlanta endorsing eliminating the filibuster for the passage of voting rights bills. The speech had its moments. But speeches alone will not save U.S. democracy.…
Monday Ménage With A Plus-Two: Edition Ink Blots, Moral Idiots, Lies and Politics
Kirkpatrick. Urrea. Orwell. Robinson. Stalin. I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently.…
Wednesday WayBack: White Nationalists and Their Motherland
Moscow Mitch McConnell's outrage yesterday at Democrats' radicalism – fighting for the right for every eligible citizen to vote – is not anything new. Far-right Republicans have long turned to Russia and the former…













