Heather Cox Richardson makes observations on Obama’s recent speech at his foundation’s Democracy Forum. You can read it here. And you can read my reaction below. There…
Money talks
Posted on 0 commentWe like to think we can get some other person to pay our bills, but that’s what our parents thought, too. Eventually, we have to…
The Tool is a Fool
Posted on 0 commentAh, yes. The Republicans would have you believe that “Russiagate” was all about how the Justice Department had been “weaponized” against their god, Donald Trump. In fact,…
Why We Lost the Last Election
Posted on 0 commentThere were dynamics to this election that I never saw before. The things Musk et al hammered home every day touched on a raw nerve,…
My school is condemned to fail.
Posted on 0 commentToday, the malcontents who work in my school took a step I should have easily anticipated: they voted to begin using a reading series, Journeys,…
February, the dismal month
Posted on 0 commentWhoever thought to limit February to only 28 days was a great humanitarian. Better were it 10. Two years ago, my brother died. February 21, 2015: the…
Everybody lies.
Posted on 0 commentYep, it was a good song by Leo Kottke (which you can see performed here) but it’s generally true in human affairs. By now, it…
The Last Day.
Posted on 0 commentToday is a sad day. Donald Trump is taking over the office of President tomorrow, and Barack Obama will no longer be my President. I’m…
The Broken Presidency
Posted on 0 commentEarlier this year (2016) journalists and pundits were falling all over themselves declaring the Republican Party to be “broken.” Now, after the disastrous and terrifying…