The next two years will be a reckoning for the United States. Our justice system has been reinvented with the appointment of credible people that are not part of a criminal cover up but rather are seeking to reveal unlawful activity and punish it. This seems like a radical new Read more…
A national census is a nuisance, right? Once every ten years you have to tell the government information about yourself and your family that doesn’t seem like it’s any of their business and is another inconvenience to look forward to, like paying taxes once a year. What a pain! But Read more…
There is nothing left of the Republican Party but fear. They peddle fear as their singular policy agenda, a regressive strategy to oppose any progress for the working people of this country while convincing those same working people that it is in their best interests to live in fear as Read more…
The celebration is over. Don’t get me wrong. It was well deserved, the defeat of Donald J. Trump an important milestone in the rescue of democracy in the United States. The dream hung in the balance, ready to topple with just a few more votes cast for an autocrat. Just Read more…
The Conservative Political Action Conference wrapped up their annual party on Sunday with a dystopian storyteller spinning a tale of political intrigue and skulduggery to an audience of screaming fans. Trump repeated all the lies he had told over a four year assault on America and the people’s ability to Read more…
Have you ever felt like you can’t make a difference? How can one small voice make a dent in this vast landscape of a world? It’s too vast and unreachable! How can one lone voice screaming into the wilderness be heard over the cacophony? One man found a way and Read more…
Some cancers you can’t avoid. They follow you down the ancestral path, stalking you until they come out of hiding, seemingly from nowhere. Others are the result of poor choices, habits that we know better than to indulge but we do anyway. The short term pleasure is just too much Read more…
I’m 63 and in OK shape. Not great, but not horrible. I have a little bit of a gut that grew over the holidays. I can still play tennis and ride a bike, hiking is still cool. My friend Ted is a year or two older and he just ran Read more…
And so it begins. The second impeachment trial of Former President Donald J. Trump begins today. The first order of business will be arguments and a vote on the constitutionality of the trial itself, taking place as it does after the exit of the subject of the proceedings. The Constitution Read more…
The idea of retirement is very appealing to me. I had a taste of it during an extended furlough from my job and I think I’ll be pretty darn good at it if I can figure out how to supplement my Social Security income somehow. I did an exceptionally poor Read more…