This was inauguration day. At times it seemed as far away as Christmas does on Thanksgiving to an eight year old. Too much time, too much could happen. As it got closer the anxiety didn’t lessen. It grew with each passing day, so close to dodging the bullet but not dodged yet. The weekend passed, still nothing. Trump remained in hiding. Some predictable pardons that deepened the national embarrassment of having elected this monstrosity were Read more…
You have to admire some people’s resilience in the face of adversity. Prophecy has become big business on the internet with dozens of self-described prophets enlightening the faithful of the things to come, the imminent movings of the Lord their God that will clearly reveal that nothing is impossible when He is on your side. YouTube videos are the new street corner where those with direct communication to the Creator shout to a lost generation. Read more…
It was 1967, the Summer of Love. In the Haight Ashbury district in San Francisco young people were reinventing what freedom meant in the United States, stretching boundaries that had been in place for generations. Peace became a political force, and love a radical form of protest. I knew nothing of this at the time. I was in 4th grade and the most love meant to me was kissing both Claire and Heidi in a Read more…
The mob ascended the stairs in a fury. They scaled walls, clinging by their fingertips with fire in their eyes. Searching the crowd it swung between blood lust and euphoria, sharing only madness. The lies had accumulated, little ones and grandiose ones, amplified by media allies that implied journalistic affirmation but simply widened a rabbit hole into a sinkhole where millions of Americans fell and could not extricate themselves. All legitimate sources had been undermined, Read more…
I’m 63 years old and have been through quite a few elections by now. In all that time, I have never tuned in to monitor the results of the electoral college voting. Not once. In 2000, the electoral college was not the issue. No one imagined that electors would go in and vote against the certified vote of their respective states. No, the courts were the battleground for that one. There was no enthusiastic statistician Read more…
Did you have the honor of watching the Georgia debates? If the SNL staff writers are currently being paid anything at all it’s like paying an infant for needing a diaper change. It’s like stealing money. Jon Osroff debated an empty podium as sitting Senator Perdue chose to skip the opportunity to make his case to his fellow Georgians lest he have to answer the inevitable deluge of questions regarding his abuse of his position Read more…
What happened to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn? A highly decorated officer in the U.S. Army, Flynn served with distinction for over 30 years, receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit among other distinctions. He spent much of his career in military intelligence serving under General McChrystal, successfully streamlining intelligence to degrade Al-Qaeda networks in Iraq. Cracks began to appear in the ethical underpinnings of Flynn when he was reprimanded for Read more…
We have been quietly blessed by 2020. The party conventions were virtual this year, mercifully unpopulated with bloated hysteria from either side played out to the strains of “Happy Days Are Here Again”. They are not. Though the result was decisive, mirroring what our current President characterized as a “landslide” in 2016, with a 6 million vote advantage out of a bit over 150 million votes cast, it was hardly overwhelming and revealed a decidedly Read more…
I’m back. It has felt pointless to write anything for some time. It felt redundant, unnecessary. Was there anything more to be learned about this President? I won’t even repeat the obvious here for clarity. If his essential failure at the simplest levels of humanity are unclear to anyone then it is unclear with clear intent. But it occurred to me that is only true to those that are paying the most tangential bit of Read more…
Winds of change are set to blow! Where has everybody been? The story unfolding around you today has been around a very long time. Great writers and investigative journalists and one very talented and courageous college freshman have been trying to let you know what was coming, what was percolating in quiet corners of power, a silent coup being orchestrated secretly in plain sight. It was working, and baby step by baby step, with patience Read more…