I was commenting on a friend’s post about protests shutting down local (to him) primary roads after yet another black man was shot by police. It got me thinking and I’m reminded of Thoreau’s _Civil Disobedience_ in which he stated: If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to […]
Repugnicans vs Libtards…
Friends, This isn’t a post about hizzoner or the lies which, even for the DC political scene are creating a new definition of the word “normal.” But I’m not going to write about that. Really. It’s a challenge but… We’ve been had. Rather, I want to write something about how “Patriots” […]
Apples and Oranges
In this day and age of high-speed, low-drag technology, there seems to be a notion that wars can be fought without the collateral, non-combatant casualties that happen. Americans have forgotten that our armed forces have one basic mission: to kill people. That can be prettied up any number of ways, but the basic mission of […]
An Open Letter to President-elect Donald Trump
Mr. Trump, Well, sir, here’s your opportunity. The “whiny millennials,” who are legitimately frightened for themselves, their families, and the friends in their extended families are calling for leadership with their protests. Now, you probably know this already, but it’s not just millennials that you’re hearing from right now, it’s Americans from all over the […]
I see… Well, who am us, anyway?
From the same people who brought you We are all Bozos on This Bus, and The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, an old Firesign Theatre bit asks, “who am us anyway?” Well, I just popped in on a Facebook conversation about the sighting of a white supremacist in PA, “SS decals on the truck. Nazi tattoos, […]
An open letter to President Obama
Dear President Obama, I’m a supporter. I voted for you twice and would do so again were it possible. I have watch through eight years of an obstructionist Congress making every one of your choices, good or bad, a huge battle. I have seen men and women on both sides of the aisle, men and […]
For Shame for All of Us.
So glad to see such a humanitarian response to the burgeoning Syrian crisis from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain among many-many others. Good thing that there are no Muslims, Jews, or Christians involved or I’d suspect some sort of hypocrisy… FYI: “You cannot attain to righteousness unless you spend (in charity) out of what […]
Desecration of our Flag
<rant> http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html A note to all of my friends sharing the US Code (link above has a decent history of the code) as it relates to desecration of the National Colors: the code was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1990. The Court argued that burning the flag was an act of free speech […]