The New York Times recently ran a front-page story illustrating the stark similarities in the language Fox News commentators and right-wing radio personalities routinely use to describe migrants from south of the border and the El Paso shooter’s screed he posted on 8chan...
May Day is the first of may, or a distress call that vessels emit when they are sinking or crashing and screaming for help. Our culture is in distress right now and here's an interesting May Day "declaration" affirming...
Donald Trump, Jr. is a moron. If you think his handling of the Trump Tower meeting was pathetic, wait until you hear him render an interpretation of the ruling in the case of the Christian baker versus the gay...
Everything I know about police, criminals, etc does not come from Law and Order -- which is actually a good thing, as it turns out. One thing I know from experience: most murders have a personal component. And it seems...
If you've never heard of Jane Elliot before, you need to remedy that deficit in your cultural education. Jane Elliot was teaching grade school in Riceville, Iowa in 1968, shortly after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. She decided...
Sunday in Washington was ugly. There were several thousand QAnon supporters, and other mental retreads that showed up at the Washington Monument to march to the Lincoln Memorial in a giant anti vaccine rally. Only don't call it that! They prefer...
Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black. Lauren Boebert has a short memory and has forgotten her part in the insurrection at the Capitol January 6, when she deemed it appropriate to disclose Nancy Pelosi's whereabouts to rioters...
Remember when Donald Trump chose an obscure, two man outfit in Montana to rebuild the grid for hurricane devastated Puerto Rico? Remember how great that turned out? Here we go again, this time with Trump's favorite vanity project, The...
Adolf Hitler was impressed with actor Peter Lorre's gifts and early in his regime wrote Lorre that he should come back to Germany to live and work. Lorre wrote back, "No thank you. Germany doesn't need two people with...
I swear, I'm not really that big of a dumb ass. But can I help it if every time I reach a totally logical conclusion, some paddlefoot comes clomping in and demolishes the whole thing, like it's a six-year-old's sand...
