The Macy's Day Parade: Now a tribute to Ebenezer
"I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not? - Charles Dickens, A Christmas CarolIt's that time of year again. Many people...
View ArticleRolling Stone Fails Journalism 101 and We All Pay The Price
All it would have taken was to fact-check a date. Just one date. The date of the night the alleged victim was brutally gang raped that was cited in the story. The editor’s note now at the front of...
View ArticleLet’s End the Abomination that Allows Police to be Brutal
In all the excellent posts about brutality and practiced racism by the police across the country, one thing stands out consistently. Or rather, the failure to mention it stands out. Perhaps it is so...
View ArticleWill The NRA Allow us to Ban the Sale of Toy Guns?
In the news today it is reported that the City of Cleveland responded to the Tamir Rice lawsuit by saying the “boy’s death was caused because of his own actions.” The city has yet to give much other...
View ArticleA Lament From the State of Kansas
The national spotlight on Kansas continues. And as a resident, the actions of an ultra-“conservative” (I’ll get to those quotations in a minute) legislature and governor are painful and painfully...
View ArticleSharing the Outrage: the Cecil’s, Sandra Blands, and the World
My Facebook feed blew up this week. A public shaming of an entitled American commenced with a fury rarely seen at such volume. And rightfully so – a heart breaking story of a lion falling victim to a...
View ArticleThe Frontline Episode That Should be Required Viewing by Cowards Slamming the...
Last night I saw an incredible piece of investigative broadcast journalism: ISIS in Afghanistan by PBS’ Frontline news magazine. The footage was so outrageous; it felt a little surreal, like some...
View ArticleOn Baseball. On Life: It Doesn’t Always Have To Be Only About The Money
As someone that has been a baseball (specifically Kansas City Royals) fan most of my life since adolescence, let me begin by saying that I’m aware that it is “just a game.” Sports of all types have...
View ArticleWhat Pundits and HRC Boosters Don’t Get: People Are Really Sick of The Status...
This past weekend a blog by the title of"Hillary Clinton Doesn't Trust You"was featured on several progressive web sites. The title suggested red meat sympathetic to Sanders. Since it came on the...
View ArticleThey Want Us So Badly to Reject Our Own Power. Exhibit A: The NY Times
Yesterday The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nominee – not to be missed, above the fold in the right hand corner in the opinion page headline. Also front and...
View ArticleRich White Womensplaining to Us Ungrateful Girls
As Secretary Clinton faces a probable defeat in New Hampshire, the American people are being subjected to another round of dirty politics by the Clinton Camp- this time from with a double-dose of...
View ArticleThe “Single Issue” Revolution.
Last Thursday night Secretary Clinton started a new meme in her closing argument in the debate:You know, we agree that we've got to get unaccountable money out of politics. We agree that Wall Street...
View ArticleDear Ruling Class: So We Unite To Elect Hillary? Then What Happens?
As the alarm bells are rung with increasing intensity over the prospect of a Donald Trump Presidency, something is missing. Godwin’s Law– until recently a third rail for pragmatic journalists - has...
View ArticleThe Long Shadow of the Confederacy Hangs Over Us
One year, when I was a young teenager, we took our family vacation through the South, cutting a path via car through Louisiana then through the deep south to the east coast of Charleston SC. I don’t...
View ArticleDreams for Our Children
Just what will be the significance of yesterday’s announcement of the discovery of a potentially habitable planet in our solar system’s backyard? The headline called it “epochal” and this is correct –...
View ArticleThis is the Type of White Person I Want to Be and The Country I Want to Live In
What type of white person do you want to be? This was the question posed at the end of a blog on Salon by Chaucey DeVega this morning in the wake of yet another shooting by the police of an unarmed...
View ArticleHillary Gives us a Chance. Final Nov 7th Thoughts from a Former Berner.
Until I went into the voting booth last week I wasn’t entirely sure who I would be checking for the Presidential race – Clinton; or Stein as a protest vote since I still ache with anger and...
View ArticleHas the Dem Party Leadership Learned Nothing Since 2016?
Here we go again. A bright progressive is energizing the party base and the old guard has decided that it does not like it one bit. Brings to mind the old cliche “with friends like these” who needs an...
View ArticleThis Other Blog Says it - Almost - All, Except How I Feel as a Descendant of...
When the first round of media reports erupted over the MAGA-hat-wearing Covington Boys, my first reaction was relief and hope. These emotions stemmed from the perception that the majority of white...
View ArticleThe Big Lie at the Center of the Latest Budget "Compromise"
When I first heard about the two areas of contention between Trump and the House regarding the latest spending bill, I had one of those spikes of anxiety I’ve been regularly having since #45 was...
View ArticleIceberg Straight Ahead! Keep Rearranging Those Deck Chairs!
In an article out this week in the Washington Post regarding the Democratic Party falling in line behind Nancy Pelosi’s anti-impeachment stance, there is a profile of a leader and a political party...
View ArticleFacebook's Breathlessly Irresponsible Stance on Propaganda is a Body Blow to...
As our system and institutions — from our free elections to our two-party system — continue to brace against the battering rams of corruption and evil men, the accelerating breakdown of the system that...
View Article"Prison?" Red Meat. Red Herring.
Since special counsel Robert Mueller called his press conference to say that his report does not clear the sitting President, the House is still firm in its anti-impeachment stance. This position is...
View ArticleThe Squad, Pelosi & Tapper. Aka- The Fourth Estate is Failing Us.
Even though the various hosts have made tuning in to – even if just a clip online - the Annual Press Club Dinner worth the time, it’s been a guilty pleasure. The reality is that I think the tradition...
View ArticleThe Law Breaking is the Point. And it's Spreading to Local "Public Servants."
The slippery slope that chills to the bone continued Monday in Kansas City, MO. ICE raided a family’s car, breaking the window, and dragged a human being into custody with the city’s police department...
View ArticleThe Only Way We're Going to Save Ourselves is a Global (Bloodless) Revolution
This was my conclusion after a lively discussion at the tail end of a party on Saturday night. The argument was whether we — humanity — could save ourselves still?; or were we just doomed to burn our...
View ArticleJust Another Week of Enduring Being Terrorized by The Heirs of the Confederacy.
Our nation’s history has always been a ball and chain around our collective id, but mostly because we have pretended not to feel its weight. As the thorough 1619 Project documented, there is so much of...
View ArticleSave the Planet. Save Ourselves. Let's Bullhorn Progress and The Green New Deal.
I am struck daily by the lack of vision and imagination by the status quo when it comes to solving the immediate problem of global heating. The country holds the technology to seriously ramp down...
View ArticleAbout That National Headline Regarding Kansas City’s Vote to Remove MLK From...
If a whole city can have egg on its face, Kansas City is it. Filed under the category of “unintended consequences” was the fact that an overwhelming vote to change a street back to its original name...
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Broadcast Propaganda of Our Age is Destroying Us. How Do We Save Ourselves?
Are we frustrated with those Trump voters yet? Or perhaps the question should be: are we frustrated with the way the press covers this conundrum?When did you start tuning out all those articles about...
View ArticleEmasculation Nation Has Our Come to Jesus Moment
You can hear it in his tone; ascertain it through his lies; and recognize it when reading about his life: Trump is the emasculated president. And he is the savior of so many that feel so wounded, but...
View ArticleAll Hail the King! Dershowitz drop-kicks Trump across the Rubicon.
This story has been told recently quite a bit. After the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, a voice shouts out to Benjamin Franklin: “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”To...
View ArticleSocial Media is Throwing Gasoline onto the Bonfire of our Democracy. Make it...
As a relatively recent joiner to the Twitter-verse, I still haven’t decided if it’s the cause or just an amplification of our uncivil discourse that has metastasized in America. I joined on a lark to...
View ArticleWarehouse Space.
You see the headlines about working conditions. And the lack of benefits for part-time workers. And the gazillion dollars Bezos is making off of this enterprise. But nothing compares to a personal...
View ArticleAt The Crossroads: A Choice Between America's Best and Worst Natures.
It’s frustrating to live in a country where the rhetoric doesn’t match the reality of life. This has been the situation for decades in America after a relatively brief interlude of 30-40 years of...
View ArticleThe World Right Now Makes Sense if you Read Lord of the Rings.
I was obsessed with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series when I hit adolescence. But it wasn’t until the era of Trump that I recognized all its lessons. Without much straining, you can see the characters...
View ArticleWhy is Opposition Leadership so Muted? And How Can We Respond?
There were two news stories that sent me over the edge this week: the DOJ dismissal of Flynn’s case; and Trump’s appointment of a new Postmaster General — a big supporter of his no less.I’m worried....
View ArticleWhat Will History Say About a Society That Allows Billionaires?
When will Americans stop deifying the uber-rich? It’s long passed time to redefine compulsive hoarding disorder to include excessive amounts of money. Pop culture has created a television show where...
View ArticleWhat Was, nay, IS Michael Moore Thinking?
Do you ever have imaginary conversations with high profile people? Not often, but sometimes, a news story will impact me so much that I mull over what I would say if I happened to get stuck in an...
View ArticleCan we Bridge the Divide? A Modest Proposal for our Cities' Police Departments.
First, let’s take back the phrase “a few bad apples.” Secondly, let’s put part of the blame on our unjust War on Drugs. Finally, reform needs to include better pay.My hometown was an example of the...
View ArticleIn Online Discussion Between Two Dem Reps, This Statement Was Made: And It's...
Yesterday, House Representative Sharice Davids held an interview with Rep Emanuel Cleaver. These are the two Reps for the majority of the Kansas City metropolitan area that spans the MO-KS state line....
View ArticleOn Baseball in 2020: Broken by an unequal system.
The love of sport — when you pull back to contemplate — is an odd duck. So much passion and devotion from humans for just a game. But this love has been around for thousands of years, the only ebb and...
View ArticleOn Baseball 2020: Postscript
Something happened in between my blog published yesterday regarding MLB’s factions unable to reach an agreement so far to start the 2020 season, and today. That is I participated in a march in support...
View ArticleReflections After Old Family Friend Blasts me with a Hateful MAGA Tirade.
I am sad today. It’s been a rough year so far. My father passed away over two months ago now — I am 99.9% sure that it was of the Corona Virus, but I have no proof. The hospital held on tight to his...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Banksters Just Can Never Get Enough
To those of us that really wanted truly progressive change, first in 2016; and then now in 2020, the insistence that the Democratic nominee be from the established power structure has felt a bit like...
View ArticleGaia is already starting to exert her three-alarm defense mechanism.
My social media feed was filled with the news yesterday that medical professionals and scientists have identified a swine flu strain that has a potential genetic makeup to create a mutation that could...
View ArticleWe Can't Dismiss Trump/Barr's Actions in Portland as a Political Stunt. The...
Holy hell, it’s been a week and it’s only Monday. Things are so dark from my vantage point that it seems like a moment of grave concern. Nay, alarm. It’s five minutes to Midnight, but we may not have...
View ArticleUpdated. Must watch: Mayor Durkan of Seattle. My hometown too is being...
How does a democratic government react to a democratically elected (allegedly) “leader” that has gone rogue terrorist on his own (allegedly) people? I really think that we need to take a pause in all...
View ArticleMission Critical - Call Your Reps and Demand: Impeach Postmaster Gen DeJoy.
These are not Normal Times. Pelosi’s House has got to stop acting like we’re living in them.Those that are paying attention to the important things (through the haze of so much destruction it’s hard to...
View ArticleIs Feinstein Going to Apologize to Edward Snowden Now?
So Feinstein is now "totally opposed" to the NSA spying on American allies and is so shocked at the revelations.Never mind that she was just fine with the NSA spying on the average American citizen...
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