I'm sorry, this isn't going to be gentle, but I've had it. On Tonight with Alex Wagner, she just went through the genesis of a very famous event of the civil rights era, Rosa Parks heroic refusal to give up...
At this point it must be challenging fro Marjorie Taylor Greene to keep coming up with more and more stupid things to say and yet, against all odds, she persists. A case in point would be from today’s House Oversight...
When they are not busy tormenting transgendered people, immigrants, or teachers (because heaven forbid their students should read books about real life), Florida Republicans are thinking up brand-new draconian laws to get them kids back to work like they...
If you're as long in the tooth as I am, you may recall a TV show from the '70's called "Laugh In." One of the cliches from that show that emerged to become part of our slang was "sock...
Talk about a breath of fresh air. Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post have put together a terrific piece on the "backlash to the backlash," specifically the bat$hit anti-gay, book banning nonsense in the State of Florida....
Three things happening here, none of them good. First, Donald Trump is flipping out. Bigly. He's made that evident for some time. Second, he's dying to get control of the foreign policy narrative. That's a near impossibility because he...
At the rising of the moon, at the rising of the moon. All the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon    The rising of the moon   Irish folk song You all know I'm a proud Irish...
We live in very strange times indeed. This is the first time that I can recall, either from personal experience or from history, that a declared candidate for president of the United States has issued an announcement outlining a...
In dark the darkest deeds are done, and villians all flee the rising sun. Truer words were never spoken. Which is why it never ceases to amaze me when the GOP keeps trying to pull their lame ass hit in...
Every now and then a story surfaces that gives you hope that no matter how desperately the RWNJs try to pull our country into an abyss of hatred and ignorance, good people can emerge to pull us back from...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead