So… I haven’t been blogging much of late. Please read the reasons why:
For most of the past year, I have increasingly struggled to see because of completely curable cataracts. Necessarily, my reading and writing fell off increasingly. Always an avid reader, I have been distressed not to be able to see well enough to read any longer. I haven’t been able to…
The following poem is very much for mature audiences. It is raw. You will be offended.
Walking… oh, please… don’t notice me…
The ruining corridors of pain…
These hallowed halls of entropy…
What learning ‘pon the blackboard
With vile tutelage in your halls?
Delinquent roving gangs violate your corners. …
The Left still defends Democrat powerful men against crowds of women, even when those women are liberal too.
Is it ever going to change?
Will #MeToo mean anything at all in making things better for women? How can it when liberals and progressives are using the self-same tactics and talking points to defend Cuomo which continue to be employed by conservatives and republicans to defend Trump? What is it now — eight women accusing…
They way the rightwing talks about Trump makes my brain hurt.
The rightwing conservatives aren’t even trying to be subtle anymore. Not only do they have a golden idol of Trump on display at their annual CPAC convention, their stage is the actual Odal rune of the Nazi SS! They’ve abandoned all pretense of American democracy. …
Half a million dead in a year.
Half a million members of our American family lost, loved ones dying alone because we were forced to stay away by this pandemic.
The deepest cut is that most of these coronavirus deaths should have been preventable with even the most basic of…
Do we owe respect in death to a man who in life espoused only disrespect?
“I am to die steeped in treasonous guilt, my name cursed, my memory unmourned.” –Paul W.S. Bowler
As regards how people are reacting to the death of Rush Limbaugh and demands for more “respect for the dead” — He now reaps what he had sown all his life. …
We Will Not Live in a World of “Alternative Facts”
To a generation of Christian conservatives, I’m radical and heretical; I am not a true Christian in their eyes. Why? Why is my Christ-centered faith not Christian? It is the faith I was taught by their generation. It is the faith I learned in the words of Christ, set out…
The Two Cannot Be Mutually Exclusive.
The way forward cannot again compromise with hatred and bigots. From the very founding of this nation, our American history has been one of compromise with white supremacy and bigots. The long arc of our national history led us to what now must be a national reckoning.
“Hate is a…
A Nest of Vipers Bred In Our Midst
The insurrection, directed by Trump, is the snake eating its own tail. He is the head of the snake. These people are scared of our changing world — so scared that they have made themselves enemies of democracy — demonstrably the most dangerous enemies of America. …
Cloaked in Religiosity and Feigning Moral Rectitude, the GOP Graspingly Clings to Power with and Ideology Founded in Dominionist Theocratic Corporatism.
When the Democrat Party became the party of civil rights, the Dixiecrats who fled the DNC were lured in by the GOP and Nixon’s Southern Strategy. The Republican Party has been degrading ever since, year by year, election by election. At every level of government, we’ve watched the GOP use…
