“Eat em. Don’t throw em,” Bumble Bee company officials tweeted Tuesday. They were referring to cans of their tuna that Impeached President Donald J. Trump claimed were being used as weapons by protesters across the country during confrontations with law enforcement officers…. Read More ›
Politics
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
An early autumn New England Friday. It’s still mild and the seasonal burst of colors is as slow as the Red Sox bats this year. It’s calm but you know it’s just a matter of time. We’re six weeks away… Read More ›
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHILDE DONALD?
Because most of us are rational, we not only loathe the guy running our government. We also really want to know how he became such a terrible person. Everyone knows people — some of us are those people — who… Read More ›
TRUMP IS AMERICA’S BELLWETHER
BELLWETHER, by CONNIE WILLIS is a book I have read many times. I read it often because it’s funny and finding something to laugh about has become increasingly difficult. Each time I read it, I notice something new that rings… Read More ›
THE 50-PERCENTERS: A SHORT STORY By RICH PASCHALL
Resistance. A short story by Rich Paschall After Durward Tower narrowly won his election to the Presidency late in the century, he declared that he had a landslide victory. It was a mandate by the people to make big changes… Read More ›
DESTROYING AMERICA
And They Cheer Him On, by Rich Paschall Just as he has done with many of his businesses, Trump has taken America down the road to ruin, and it was not paved with good intentions. Everything he has done, or… Read More ›
TODAY’S NEWS AT SIX
Watching the news tonight was illuminating, in an Illuminati kind of way The first subject they covered was politics, including the postal crisis, a couple of local races, plus concerns about not getting ballots delivered or entered on time. It… Read More ›
A TIMELY RERUN: LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON IN VIETNAM 1967, by GARRY ARMSTRONG
Originally posted on Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth:
WHEN OUR PRESIDENT WAS A HERO Location: A campfire in Vietnam near Saigon. Year: 1967. 1967 and 1968 were very intense years for me. I had jumped directly from college and small time commercial radio,…
“THOSE WHO HATE YOU DON’T WIN”: THOUGHTS ON NIXON’S RESIGNATION. Reblog: Sean Munger
Today (August 9) is a historical anniversary that, while I’m sure won’t go un-noticed, may well go unappreciated. Forty-six years ago today, on August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned as President of the United States, the only president (thus far)… Read More ›
MYTHOLOGY IN THE U.S.A.
Every nation revises history. They leave out the bad bits — slaughters of the innocent, unjust wars against minorities and civilians. They invent heroes, turn defeats into victories. American history is no different. It’s relatively easy to make our history… Read More ›
DARWIN AWARDS IN DANGER OF BEING CANCELLED DUE TO OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF CANDIDATES – BY TOM CURLEY
Originally posted on Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth:
4/1/2020 “Darwin Awards in Danger” “The Darwin Awards are in danger of being canceled this year due to the unprecedented number of applicants and a severe lack of Darwin Award trophies.…
Blood in the water? Are the sharks coming for Donald J. Trump? – THE SHINBONE STAR
WRITTEN BY NATHANIEL R. “NAT” HELMS – AUGUST 3, 2020 Last Wednesday was the 75th anniversary of the sinking of the U.S.S Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 after delivering the first… Read More ›
BOOK OF JOB, THE SEQUEL – BY TOM CURLEY
God and the Devil got together recently. They do that more often than you think. Usually at least once every millennia. They play cards, catch up on all the celestial gossip and have a few beers. More often than not,… Read More ›
THERE’S GOTTA BE A PONY IN THERE SOMEWHERE – BY TOM CURLEY
There’s an old joke about a psychiatrist who was trying to see if he could change an optimist into a pessimist and a pessimist into an optimist. He took two children, one very optimistic and one very pessimistic. He put… Read More ›
BACKFIRE: THE BIG MISCALCULATION
From the Battleground, by Rich Paschall “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” – Jan. 22 From the very beginning, DJT has… Read More ›
HOMELAND MILITARIZATION CAN’T BE OUR FUTURE | VIEWS FROM THE EDGE – GORDON STEWART
What is happening in Portland and American cities where Black Lives Matter continues to oppose the violence and lawlessness of those sworn to protect and serve. A search through previous Views from the Edge posts led back to August 22,… Read More ›
DONE. FINISHED. KAPUT. FINITO.
I know I’m voting for Biden. I’ve supported every candidate in whom I believed including many that are no longer in contention. I’ve written my heart out. If the American people are too stupid to vote for someone who might… Read More ›
MAR-A-LAGO: MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH – BY TOM CURLEY
You might think by now that we would be emerging from the COVID-19 disaster. But we aren’t. In fact, more than half of our states are in worse shape now than they were a couple of months ago. Florida had… Read More ›
DON’T THINK TOO HARD. IT’LL RUIN YOUR DAY — Marilyn Armstrong
THINKING CAN DECIMATE YOUR EQUILIBRIUM There’s a reason why I don’t always want to write about the things that make me crazy. First of, they are things that make me crazy and I figure I’m crazy enough without working at… Read More ›
TRUMP MAKES ME MEAN – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I don’t consider myself a mean spirited or a vindictive person. I avoid conflicts with others and I don’t think about revenge when someone slights me. My friends and family consider me a nice, decent, even sweet person. I even… Read More ›
THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED By JOHN BOLTON – Marilyn Armstrong
I expected it to be dull, but it wasn’t dull. I think I’d describe it as “dry.” Not unlike the material I wrote for many years. I wasn’t going to read it, but I decided my curiosity was stronger than… Read More ›
THE MAN WHO WILL NOT BOW – GORDON C. STEWART
Originally posted on Views from the Edge:
Independence Day at Mount Rushmore The Fourth of July feels a bit different this year. When the sculptors chiseled the 60-foot faces of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919),…
WHEN WORDS FAIL – Marilyn Armstrong
I was reading a comment in the Washington Post that followed my own line of thought: Yes, the politicians are to blame — but so are we. The two trends intersect.The Republican war on science succeeded by making people distrust… Read More ›
SO MANY FLOWERS ARE GONE – Marilyn Armstrong
When I started writing Serendipity eight years ago, I was enthusiastic and full of energy. Undisciplined. All over the place. Writing too much, leaping from subject to subject. Angry one day, mellow the next. Ranting about the wrongs of the… Read More ›
