McConnell Thinks Fighting For Voting Rights Is 'Radicalism' - And Not The Good Kind U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday laid bare his reasoning for vehemently defending the use of the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Reason, Goobers, and The Imbecile
Einstein. Barry. Brecht. 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 honest good-will exert…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth, Justice, Activism
West. Wilson. Davis. When faced with a choice between an incriminating truth or a flattering lie, America's ruling class has been choosing the lie for four hundred years. White Americans hunger for plausible…
Friday Serenade: Story Of The Year – Democracy In Crisis
Democracy Crisis in the Making Report Update: 2021 Year-End Numbers Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process As 2021 draws…
Unguarded Moments
The Resemblance Is Uncanny ~~ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: I am "100 percent" focused "on stopping" President Joe Biden's administration
Wednesday WayBack: Insecure Domestic Tranquility; The Road To America’s Ruin
As part of his long-game manifesto to disrupt America's domestic tranquility, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell openly urges the current unhinged disruptor having his moment, coal multimillionaire Corporate-Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians Pundits And Arrogance
Wylie. de Maupassant. Trotsky. 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…
Friday Serenade: Bipartisan Replay Replay, Part Infinity
Joe Biden Tells Joe Manchin and NoChin McConnell About The Real Meaning of Bipartisanship And What A Story It Is! Really, Just SO. DAMN. PATHETIC. ~~ And In Related News... 'Act of Cowardice': Biden…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
Wednesday WayBack: Yes, History Repeats; A Short Reading List
A Little Obsession Is Good Obsession Received a couple of e-mails recently suggesting I might be obsessed with the idea today's Republicans are a Nazi-like political party. Well, I think 'obsessed' could be an…
Friday Serenade: No Mandates For Manly Men. But For Women, Yeah, Mandate Life And Death
POS GOP Reject Vaccine Mandates for Men, But Same Cowards Demand Pregnancy Mandates for Women One way to explain these contradictions in Republican ideology is sexism. Right wing ideology is about male power and…
Silence From Republican Party Leaders Speaks Volumes, Loudly
Sometimes Fear Is More Than A Lifestyle Choice Kevin McCarthy's silence on out-of-control House members of his Party engaging in full-on harassment, threats, and abuse of Democratic colleagues is not that difficult to…
It’s True. Money Can Buy You Just About Anything Or Anybody
Fox Host Demands Her Money's Worth From SCOTUS Fox News and Ted Cruz admit they paid a lot of money to have Roe overturned and now are threatening "their" Supreme Court. (via Crooks…
Monday Ménage With A Plus One: Edition Stand Up, Move Forward, Power Change
Taryam. Sealy. Huerta. Valenti. 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,…
Don’t Play With My Last Nerve
And The Day Begins...
Wednesday WayBack: Backsliding In The USA
On Monday, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) published results of a study that finds the United States of America is a “backsliding” democracy. “The visible deterioration of democracy in the…
Backsliding, It’s All The Rage
“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019” No American – woke or unwoke, engaged or…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power, Corruption, Excesses and Idiots
Goodman/Howe. Zinn. Miller. Democratic power springs from an enlightened electorate. The neglect of this possibility in America – the failure to protect and advance it with new form and content during a century…
When An Image Tells The Story
Democracy Dies In The Home Of The Once Brave
Oxymoron: Republicans – Free Fair Elections
'Blatant Partisan Power Grab': Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Seize Control of State's Elections “They're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open” Wisconsin Republicans, at the urging…
Friday Serenade: Nancy With The Hammer
Governing, Or At Least Trying To, Versus Fear And Loathing Led by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Democrats passed President Joe Biden's landmark $.17 billion Build Back Better bill. The…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and The Political Machine
Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians…
America Has Come To A Fork In The Road. Will The Supreme Court Choose The Path That Saves Or Ruins The Democracy
The sitting justices face a once-in-a-lifetime crisis of legitimacy that could determine the future of the US Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Author: Gary Gerstle Common sense suggests that America ought to…
Monday Ménage: Edition People, Corporations, and The Isms
Useem. Wolfe. Mills. The political concerns of members of the corporate elite are affected by three competing principles. These principles have fundamentally different implications for the ways in which business managers participate in policy…
A Happy Guy
Happy UnHappy President Joe Biden was a happy guy when the House late Friday night passed his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The bill now is waiting for his signature. The bill passed with help…













