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 ›
Politics
MAR-A-LAGO: MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH – TOM CURLEY
This should be LONG out of date, but given the news last night of how many places are again bouncing back UP into COVID, we aren’t where we should be and maybe we never will be.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 ›
GUNS, GREED, AND POLITICS – #FPQ 114
Fandango’s Provocative Question #114 – LAWS AND GUN VIOLENCE IN THE U.S.A. It’s the question we ask ourselves and each other when a shooter kills people who never did him harm. We ask how someone who is so mentally unstable and… Read More ›
THE DISHONEST JURY – RICH PASCHALL
After debacle 2 and Impeachment Redux, you really have to wonder if the Republicans are even Americans, much less patriots, anymore. I think it’s a realistic question at this point.
IT ENDED AS IT BEGAN: THE T@%$# IMPEACHMENT REDUX
I wish that T&%$# Impeachment II had ended with a surprise, but it didn’t. It ended better than I thought it would. The really most frustrating moment was Mitch McConnell’s diatribe against T&%$# after the trial. Basically, the jury, aka… Read More ›
AS WE FINALLY CLOSE THE 2020 ELECTORAL VOTE COUNT, WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
This morning (the voting was yesterday), the news was full of live shots of many states authorizing their electoral counts. And Mitch McConnell officially told the GOP it’s “time to move one; Joseph Biden is President-Elect.” Is this going to… Read More ›
WHAT’S WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE? WHAT’S THE POINT?
Los Angeles County is bigger in population than at least 40 entire states. Not only does it have a huge population — more than 10 million and counting — but it is physically bigger than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts…. Read More ›
GOING BACK TO COLLEGE
From the Battleground, by Rich Paschall To be honest, I have thought about this for a while, OK, for years, decades perhaps. There are emotional arguments on both sides so it was not an easy decision. There is also a… Read More ›
THE WEEK THAT WAS – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Just about everyone is shaking their heads as if they’ve just awoken from a long and troubling dream. We have a President-Elect and his name is NOT Trump. If we try to tunnel back through our dreams which began on… Read More ›
EVERY VOTE MATTERS
I have never missed an election while I have lived in the U.S. I always vote. I vote when I love the candidate, when I wish it were someone — anyone — else. In the end, I’m a liberal and… Read More ›
THE AMERICAN WAY
2019 and It’s here! The Republican Convention — the big show for which we’ve been waiting, the hottest party to hit Cleveland since 1997 when the Sox won the American League Pennant but lost the Series. The first day wasn’t… Read More ›
TOM CURLY DISCUSSES AMERICAN VALUES, AMERICAN VOTING AND AMERICAN IDOL
The American voting system is seriously fucked up. I think most of us can agree on this fact. Right wing nut jobs insist that millions of illegal aliens somehow got into thousands of voting booths and voted for Hillary. Thousands of… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 