Yesterday was really a wild day for news and probably it will be the same today. I think — or at least I profoundly hope — that the biggest group of crazies has blown their cover and won’t be able… Read More ›
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SHARING MY WORLD, SUCH AS IT IS – Marilyn Armstrong
Share Your World 1-8-2020 QUESTIONS: Is ‘hello” enough for you these days? (credit to Rory – https://aguycalledbloke.blog/2019/12/29/is-hello-enough-for-you-these-days/ ) I’m not actually sure what this means. I think I’m missing something. Let me put it another way: why wouldn’t “hello” be enough? Is… 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 ›
EXPELIO TRUMPUS! – BY ELLIN CURLEY
David Brooks wrote an editorial in the June 2, 2017 New York Times called “The Axis Of Selfishness.” I just reread it. It really helps you understand where Trump is coming from. It makes his attitudes and actions a bit… Read More ›
ENROLL TRUMP FOR TREASON – A STUNNING COMMENTARY BY RICH WILSON
I think I’m pretty good with words, but compared to this guy, I’m a first-grader writing with blunt crayons. In this piece titled: Donald Trump Cracks the Seal on Talk of Treason Written — or should I say composed —… Read More ›
TENTERHOOKS? IT’S SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT!
Tenterhooks, those hooks that hold fabric over the “tent” during manufacture? Not what’s on my mind. I’m much more worried about what is going on with my country and it is scaring me half to death. Not just scary, though…. Read More ›
A DEAL IS A DEAL
This morning, after last night’s midnight signing of a law to abandon Americans to the tragedy of poverty with no recourse to government, I realized that there can be but one reason this has happened. The Republican party and nearly… Read More ›
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND NAZIS, REDUX – BY TOM CURLEY
I’m writing this on Saturday August 12, 2017. I only mention this because I’ve noticed that many of the blogs I’ve written since November 8th 2016 about the “Orange Fuehrer” (yup, I’m going there) which I thought were specific to… Read More ›
THE MORAL SHAMBLES THAT IS OUR PRESIDENT – JOHN SCALZI (REBLOG)
You should read the original of this post including the comments, many of which are worth pondering. Denouncing Nazis and the KKK and violent white supremacists by those names should not be a difficult thing for a president to do, particularly when… Read More ›
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND NAZIS – BY TOM CURLEY
I’m writing this on Saturday August 12, 2017. I only mention this because I’ve noticed that many of the blogs I’ve written since November 8th 2016 about the “Orange Fuehrer” (yup, I’m going there) which I thought were specific to… Read More ›
HEALTH CARE AND CIVILIZATION
I was on Facebook when I realized the House had actually passed Trump’s new “version” of non-health care. I got so depressed, I went to Steam and bought Civilization VI. I used to play the game three or four versions ago, so I… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: Silver Linings: The Very Picture of Ugly
– – – If we never experience ugly, how can we recognize beautiful? I do not believe in silver linings, but I believe in hope and hold the fundamental belief that all things change. Nothing — good or bad —… Read More ›
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