I don't want this to be one of those long articles I'm known for, but parts of it will require more than a few sentences of explanation. There are several inter-related moving parts that make for what could and...
In a truly historic Senate vote, the United States Senate voted to officially repeal the 1991 Iraq and 2002 Afghanistan Authorizations For the Use of Military Force. And from where I'm sitting, About. Fucking. Time. The vote wasn't even close, there were 45 Democrats, 18...
The die is clearly cast here. Vladimir Putin loves fake news and the progenitors of fake news, Fox News and others, love Vladimir Putin. The right-wing media lauds him, along with Donald Trump, on a daily basis. Here's the...
March may be the beginning of spring, and the traditional symbol of hope renewed, but this chilling narrative from the Associated Press on the war in Ukraine will give you pause. This is a must-read piece documenting the horrors of...
I get knocked down but I get back up again, you're never gonna keep me down  Chumbawamba
I want to start with a separate aside. Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former stand up comic, and comedy series television host,...
It's an old show biz axiom that you never know who will end up where. Absolutely true. O.J. Simpson was expected to crawl out into the sunlight during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial but didn't. Instead, he feels that the...
If you have a weak stomach, you might want to turn off your tv. Putin just appeared on Russian television, and announced to his own people that he had just authorized special operations in eastern Ukraine. And MSNBC is reporting that...
This is show down time. This farce that the southern border is the reason that the GOP senators don't want to approve funding for Ukraine needs to stop. Joe Biden called this out yesterday. “Putin is banking on the...
I wrote recently that with all that's going on at home, and with the recent internationals "news" being about King Charles III's Coronation that although it had been pushed to the back for folks minds fighting and dying in...
The Ukraine War will be remembered for many things, chief amongst them that it is not merely a war by conventional means, bombs, tanks, planes, but it's also a war of images and ideas. We see the Ukrainian people...
