Forgetting Orlando……..an antidote……Blackish July 15, 2016 Ditto re: the opening of the last post. Damiano comes first. This morning as I listened to the gruesome details of the rampaging truck… Continue Reading
My [Buddy] just won’t cut me any slack May 24, 2016 From: “Your Buddy” To: Cc: Sent: Mon, 23 May 2016 10:23:49 -0500 Subject: Re: Andrew Sullivan thinks Donald Trump may defeat Hillary Clinton. Jeez,… Continue Reading
Give Peace a Chance August 11, 2015 I am a cat. If there is a closed door I keep hanging around it waiting for someone to open it. There are so… Continue Reading
Pol Pot’s boys May 9, 2014 The second half of a story on NPR got me thinking today as I drove in the dark to McDonalds for an oatmeal and… Continue Reading
Confession may be good for the soul but not the Powers that be April 3, 2014 Forty years ago we refused to agree that Agent Orange was poisoning our troops or the Vietnamese. Today some of us are back pedaling… Continue Reading
3000 Red Plans September 30, 2013 The red plan has been a major focus of this blog for 6 years. The election this year has been a major focus through… Continue Reading
One of the reasons I can be embarrassed for America September 23, 2013 We sometimes let our friends down. As any Republican office holder can tell you, Tea Partiers don’t want any more immigrants here sucking up… Continue Reading
A little well deserved Schadenfreude July 1, 2013 Tammy Duckworth turns the knife very artfully. (To my overseas readers – Duckworth is a double amputee veteran of our recent wars who was… Continue Reading
The GOP’s 80 billion, oops – 2 trillion, oops – 6 trillion war March 29, 2013 Back in 2002 Newsweek’s economist Robert Samuelson shrugged at the estimated $80 billion cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve never forgotten… Continue Reading
Tonight I will take my grandchildren to the public library March 27, 2013 A note from the film maker: Three days after we filmed 11-year-old Yussef Mohamed treating an injured soldier he was killed by a government… Continue Reading
Tenth anniversary of tragic stupidity March 25, 2013 I let the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq go unremarked upon. Finally a brutal photograph has nudged me out of my silence…. Continue Reading
Ditto Sully – on the waste of taxpayer’s money in Iraq… March 6, 2013 …under GOP management. Other contracts went to cronies: the top contracting officer in Hilla awarded $8.6 million to a contractor, Philip Bloom, in exchange… Continue Reading
The deleterious inspiration of today’s GOP February 14, 2013 I remember reading a review of Farlie’s book, Bite the Hand that Feeds You,” because it was such a great title. In 1980 he… Continue Reading
Usism January 21, 2013 I was rather surprised to bump into this blog about what is happening at the moment in Mali a huge North African nation that… Continue Reading
Israel, we hardly knew ye January 18, 2013 But the GOP does. They wan’t to defend folks like this from the President of the United States while they find new ways to… Continue Reading
How the GOP loots Republicans January 8, 2013 Its not just Fox commentator Sean Hannity raising money for veterans so that he and his family can live the high life and travel… Continue Reading
The only way a Republican can argue for a tax increase… August 22, 2012 …is to spend the money preparing to fight Obama’s United Nation’s mercenaries when they come to take over America. Here’s what you just heard… Continue Reading
How will recent patriots be voting in 2112? May 15, 2012 New Veterans will be voting for and contributing to the Presidential candidate who is the least careless with their lives. Continue Reading
How dare Obama think… May 2, 2012 …he’s entitled to use his foreign policy successes to campaign on. At least it was a real success. Moving “heaven and earth” (a trillion… Continue Reading
