It’s never actually ‘either/or.’ When we vote against what we don’t like, we are voting for the other candidate whether we like them or not. Those who voted against Harris because she was Biden’s VP, against the woman, against the not-white candidate, voted for Trump. Those who took it all for a lark or a …
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FIRE!
I watched a documentary series about The Great London Fire of 1666. I can’t recommend it for the writing, so cliche-ridden, so larded with tabloidesque expositions, delivered with such earnestness by a team of narrators who can’t be blamed for the material they’re given. Despite that, the information about the Great Fire itself is worth …
Juneteenth: An American Celebration
I hear the outward celebrations of Juneteenth are being scaled down due to expectations of backlash from bigots, basically. In the current national atmosphere, it’s understandable, and in some degree wise. Like not setting off fireworks in a dry meadow. But the historic moment is most certainly not canceled, it is not going away: Those …
On Being An American
My son-in-law, an Englishman by birth, has held a green card for several years. This week he took the test and the oath and now he is an American. This is a strange time for Americans, as the dominating force at the top is the most anti-American we have ever had to contend with. Even …
Atrocity fatigue…
the normalizing of huge lies & injustices just to get on with life… The Social Contract of any society is based in trust and reliance on the sources of truth. In these times, trust is one of the chiefest of casualties: We have been lied to in large and little ways our entire lives, all …
Calm Down, Dems!
The intensity of the Dems freaking out over Biden’s poor performance on the ‘debate’ stage is directly related to the intensity of fear and loathing they–and many of us–feel at the possibility of the Republicans’ succeeding in the culmination of their long-game authoritarian take-over of America. They’ve been working in the shadows, and not very …
Surrender Is Not an Option
I was thinking about the writers of the US Constitution. They didn’t have everything right, like not actually recognizing that women and people of color are actually whole human beings, and they were mostly all slave-holders. But they were the most educated men of their time. They were philosophically sophisticated, very broad-minded for their time. …
Breaking Hearts, Broken Children
The shootings here in the Springs, and then yesterday again, in a Virginia Walmart…So many families and communities torn open, devastated because of insanity with a gun in hand. The guns are a problem, but insanity is the bigger one. Sane people can manage their guns with safety and good sense. The biggest problem here …
Time Does What Only Time Can Do
Patience is a casualty of this age of immediate information and too-ready opinionating. On Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021, as all the mayhem played out, conjecture and personal interpretation flew in all directions. The Media did its thing of milking the drama, inflaming and alarming to increase its audience-share. Anxieties were fueled by What Ifs, and …
Impeachment
There are those who are not celebrating today. There are hysterical protests founded in lies and distractions, in stunningly ridiculous attempts to gaslight the entire world into seeing the calling to account of a disastrously anti-American administration as a bad thing, an unfair thing. They thought they had this in the bag, that by twisting …
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