Politics

KILLING HIM WITH KINDNESS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/26/2022 • ( 40 )

Someone on Twitter asked how we (I assume anyone reading the tweet) would feel if Trump got life in prison. I thought that wasn’t nearly enough punishment for him. I want him to be forced to sit in a well-lighted… Read More ›

BEING AGAINST FORCED BUSING DOESN’T MAKE YOU A RACIST – GARRY ARMSTRONG

By Garry Armstrong on 08/19/2022 • ( 84 )

I was in the middle of what I honestly call the Boston busing fiasco. On center stage, it played as a racial divide between Boston’s white and minority communities. It played well in the media – especially national and international… Read More ›

EVIL DOESN’T NEED A REASON

By Marilyn Armstrong on 06/23/2022 • ( 3 )

What does “basically” mean? I keep hearing this from people who are sure – really sure – most people are basically good, kind, caring folks. What does “basically” mean? “Live and let live” has never been the way of nations…. Read More ›

SWITCHING REALITIES -TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 06/10/2022 • ( 5 )

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 10th Ah the memories this post brings especially while the January 6th hearings are in progress. We thought Trump was merely vicious and had no respect for law. We didn’t know he was ready to stage… Read More ›

THE STUPID IS STRONG IN THIS COUNTRY – By TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 06/04/2022 • ( 24 )

A Friday Flashback on Saturday One of the iconic scenes in the movie Star Wars, the first one. Episode 4. “A New Hope” is where Obi-Wan Kanobi is taking Luke Skywalker and his two droids R2D2 and C3PO into town… Read More ›

HE WHO TROUBLES HIS OWN HOUSE WILL INHERIT THE WIND

By Marilyn Armstrong on 05/30/2022 • ( 19 )

Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding – Clarence Darrow

MARRIED WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/28/2022 • ( 17 )

I was Jewish when I married Garry in a Lutheran Church. I was fine with that. Garry was fine and both ministers — we had two — were also fine with it. Oddly enough, my entire family was happy that… Read More ›

FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY: A PORN STAR, A PLAYMATE, A PLAINTIFF AND A GUY NAMED PECKER WALK INTO A BAR – By TOM CURLEY

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/26/2022 • ( 2 )

FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON A SATURDAY So the bartender says “What is this? Some kind of joke?” The answer is, yes and no. It’s not a joke. It’s reality. In so far as reality has become a bigger and bigger joke… Read More ›

MARCHING BACKWARD, BACKWARD

By Marilyn Armstrong on 02/07/2022 • ( 16 )

This segment comes from the 1960 movie “Inherit the Wind.” The dialogue is virtually a direct quote from Clarence Darrow’s real speech to the judge and jury in the “Monkey Trial” held in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. In fact, most… Read More ›

ALL THOSE ANNOYING THINGS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 12/30/2021 • ( 4 )

I’m always amazed at how aggravated I get over things that really aren’t important. There are so many small things that just get under your skin. It makes me feel stupid ranting about them because given the state of the… Read More ›

PRETENDING TO CARE: WHY “NET ZERO” IS DELUSIONAL NONSENSE

By Marilyn Armstrong on 12/10/2021 • ( 12 )

Written by Sean Munger. Forward by Marilyn Armstrong Personally, I think it is hopeless. I don’t see any signs of progress in this country or in any major polluting nation. In the few small countries where they are making an… Read More ›

MAR-A-LAGO: MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH – TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 11/13/2021 • ( 2 )

This should be LONG out of date, but given the news last night of how many places are again bouncing back UP into COVID, we aren’t where we should be and maybe we never will be. You might think by… Read More ›

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND TRUTH

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/19/2021 • ( 9 )

I love history and I read a lot of it. My first reading choice is usually fantasy and/or time travel, but after that? History. Lately, I’ve been reading serious biographies of people I have always admired and in whom I… Read More ›

A MINI HISTORY FOR NON-AMERICANS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/04/2021 • ( 10 )

Like most wars, our Revolutionary War was about money and land — pretty much like every war. The money part was about taxes — especially on tea, which was very big until America discovered coffee — and who should pay… Read More ›

OUR PANDEMIC LEGACY – RICH PASCHALL

By Rich Paschall on 05/18/2021 • ( 13 )

What We Have Learned So Far, by Rich Paschall While we certainly have not put this long social nightmare behind us, we have learned a lot along the way. These are some of the highlights, or in most cases, lowlights…. Read More ›

SEND IN THE CLOWNS REDUX – Garry Armstrong

By Garry Armstrong on 05/14/2021 • ( 11 )

From May 14, 2017: A little piece from Garry that rings as true now as it did four years ago on this same day. “Send In The Clowns”, on its own merit, is a beautiful song from the show, “A… Read More ›