I’ve noticed, as I’m sure you have, that the onslaught of dreadful and deadly news of late has served, inadvertently one hopes, to shove Black Lives Matter news and stories to one side. Understandable on one level—the daily news...
As you get older, and there's less on your plate every day, you have more time to think. And when you have a whole life to think back on, who knows what will come to you unbidden? And so...
Tom Cotton is not only a Trump supporter but an acolyte of the MAGA cult, aspiring to be High Priest. Trump was never going to be around more than eight years in any event, and now it looks like...
I live in Wilmington, NC. Nice beaches just a few minutes' drive away, warm weather, college town ambience in some areas. And lots and lots of racism, both overt and (barely) under the surface. And, like so many other cities,...
I expect just about any level of idiocy from Matt Gaetz (R-Beer Bong). He's the idiot who cribbed garbage conspiracy theories from Reddit for a House amendment calling for the prosecution of Hillary Clinton and James Comey. He's the lunatic...
It is a tragic, embarrassing, unnecessary part of American life.  You moderately well dressed, privileged 17 year old white kid like me gets his license, hops into the family car, and cruises around looking to pick up girls and...
Stephen Miller must be tearing out his remaining strands of hair and pounding on the walls. Trump's return to MAGA rallies was set to kick off with a night in Tulsa on June 19, Emancipation Day. The racist implications...
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...
Another day, another gaffe from the Know Nothing in Chief. This one's a doozy. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1271062068238651392 https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1271085486405292032 https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1271063322012467200 https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1271065007740997633 That's not the only place Trump is inflaming tensions. News of his resuming rallies, at a time when the COVID-19 crisis has by no means been...
The Sturmabteilung, or "brownshirts," were formed as the Nazi Party's first paramilitary group. They protected Nazi officials, including Adolf Hitler and Erich Rohm, fought with the paramilitary groups that opposed them, and intimidated Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews. Donald Trump,...

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