Lest we forget, this is a flashback to January 20, 2021. Every person who gets interviewed on television says the same thing. It’s the current mantra about “the U.S.A.” The hooligans who rioted in our Capitol are not really who… Read More ›
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BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE
And A Bumpy Road It Was, by Rich Paschall The memories live on. It’s not like they were yesterday, but they are still pretty clear. We lived through cold wars and real wars and you would have thought we had… Read More ›
OLD SCRATCH
FOWC with Fandango — Scratch Old Scratch is the devil. Ask anyone down down here by the river. We know him when we see him. We don’t talk about him much. The less said about that old devil, the better. That’s… Read More ›
#FPQ – THE NECESSARY EVIL
Provocative Question #115: A Necessary Evil Great question and one to which I have given a lot of thought and entirely changed my mind. For many years, I believed allowing slavery was a “necessary evil” to forming the United States as… Read More ›
IF THAT’S NOT WHO WE ARE, WHO ARE WE?
Every person who gets interviewed on television says the same thing using almost identical words. It’s our current American mantra, that those hooligans who rioted in our Capitol are not really who we are. Not really. Maybe a few of… Read More ›
“THAT’S NOT WHO WE ARE”
Every person who gets interviewed on television says the same thing. It’s the current mantra about “the U.S.A.,” that these hooligans who rioted in our Capitol are not really who we are. Not really. Just, well, maybe sometimes. I think… Read More ›
TEMPER, TEMPER, TEMPER
Fandango’s Provocative Question #100 Do all of us have a dark side? Certainly many of us have darker impulses, but a whole side? As in 50% of me is slithering towards evil? That sounds a bit Hitchcockian to me. I don’t… Read More ›
MY BAD NEWS BUNKER IS OUT OF SPACE – Marilyn Armstrong
Every morning, I get up and hope that there is something positive in the news today. Something that will give me hope. Not another soppy story of all the great people helping other people because those stories are true, but… Read More ›
CROSSROADS AND CONTRACTS – Marilyn Armstrong
It was a cold night. Not just wintry cold, but a deep, damp, clammy cold that climbed into your joints and made everything hurt. A light fog covered the ground yet it shed no light. If you squinted, you could… Read More ›
HOW DID WE GET TO THIS PLACE? – Marilyn Armstrong
Like many other countries, we’ve hidden our ugliest history in the backs of closets. We have written phony history books and made sure our kids read them. Now we wonder how come they don’t understand history. A good start would… Read More ›
THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE – Rich Paschall
Episode 1: The Campaign, by Arod Serling* Opening scene: Rural state rally, small town folks and area farmers in attendance. A candidate for office is at the podium. To the left of the stage are two of his aides. Candidate: “If… Read More ›
GOOD AND EVIL – Marilyn Armstrong
I can’t read “Lord of the Rings” these days without thinking about Stephen Colbert and his obsessive passion for these books. They are great books and eventually became rather amazing movies, but still and all … he knows things about… Read More ›
FEAR OF SLEEPING, FEAR OF DREAMS – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Fear I thought maybe that buying a new mattress would help at least by lowering the level of a backache which wakes me up every couple of hours. A Yesterday, we got the new mattress. It’s… Read More ›
FOWC – MEAN! – Marilyn Armstrong
#FOWC – MEAN! To paraphrase my friend Tom, “You don’t need a prick to be a dick, but it doesn’t hurt none, either.” Have you watched “It’s a Wonderful Life“? With Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore? Lionel Barrymore… Read More ›
A MILESTONE OF DESPAIR – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP #29: A MILESTONE OF DESPAIR Fandango – Nightmare It’s the one month anniversary of having WordPress abandon us for whatever future they think they see on their far horizons. I’m sure, whatever their milestone may be, it involves hitting all… Read More ›
UNHINGED – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Captured My marriage is fine. My house is not falling apart. The car was repaired and runs well. Yet I feel quite unhinged. A prisoner of war in my own country. Or that’s how I feel…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 