It’s A Hard Rain Gonna Fall America

People gather in the streets and yell “hate, hate” while Big Brother smiles. Any connection, real or lied about is sufficient to demonize the victim. Hence Bob Mueller and the 37,000 member FBI are “Hillary lovers” according to Fox Lies. Hillary Lovers because although they sabotaged her election, they know Trump’s ugly and criminal secrets.

In Twisted Trump World We Couldn’t Convict Today of Being Sunday

America today represents a disaster. There is no bright light at the end of the tunnel. There is only darkness in the upside down world of Donald Trump.

The Dog Ate the Cookies

There are cookies missing from the cookie jar and your two year old has chocolate and crumbs all over his face. “The Dog Ate the cookies!”

Rage In the Age of Trump

I’ve been witnessing an increase in aggressive, even reckless driving, and from talking to others who drive the same roads, I’m not alone. The morning news reports that there has been a similar incidence of unruly, abusive and violent airline passengers as well. I’ve commented several times about the anger epidemic. Some agree, others don’t.

How Endless Gun Laws Can Create Much Ado About Nothing

Lots of angry words and dire predictions being circulated over HR 38, the bill to allow people with State-issued concealed carry permits to carry concealed weapons into other states and have their permits recognized. There are stories of people unaware they have crossed a line and going to jail as a felon. 

Witch Hunt or No, Al Franken’s Got To Go

It’s time to go, Joe. Time to get out the back Jack while you can pretend you have some dignity left. It’s not one incident you can write off or explain away any more. Yes, it’s a damned shame because you give the Party of Evil a boost here. You’ve helped set back the only option we have to replace them.

Enter the Weasel: Donald Trump and Justice Denied

Using a metaphor can be a sneaky way to color a statement and I don’t want to be sneaky, but watching Trump’s familiars squirm and writhe and twist like it’s 1960 and he’s Chubby Checker makes it hard to avoid thinking of worms and weasels and leeches and things that wiggle out of traps – or try to.

When is a Crook not a Crook?

Remember when “the president is not above the law” was the cardboard sign stuck in front of the camera? Remember when they accused Democratic presidents of acting like kings? Was it Gretchen who pretended to be aghast that Obama had appointed a “Czar” of something or other, even though the media invented the usage?

Tax Bill A Blow To Nearly All of Us and a Boon To the Very Few

Obviously Pandora’s box is an inadequate metaphor, what with the revelations that are coming hourly, but I think we have a distraction that may have arisen without the instigation of Russian or Republican parties.

When Not Only the State but the Turkey is Me Too

Larry Wilmore used to say Cray Cray quite a bit. When I first heard it, my instantaneous reaction was Cray Computer, a company that used to be a customer of mine, but no, it’s another colorful term for crazy of course although it’s easier to say crazy – at least to me and I don’t want to be accused of aping some ethnic expression, cute though it is.

Can We Teach Common Decency To Those Who Grew Up Without It?

Sooner or later it will run its course and the monkeys will stop shrieking and flinging and go back to doing what monkeys do – at least until the cage is rattled again or some monkey news network comes up with something else lucrative. But while we’re raging about this outrage and ignoring the others, it does seem that it’s not only priests going after boys, but politicians.

What’s Behind the Curtain?

There are names – secret names behind things and if you know it, you have magic power over that thing or entity. Heard that one? I’ll bet you have. Words not only have power but words precede the reality they have power over. The snake eats its own tail.

Roy Moore, Rebels, Religion, and A Princess of Argos

Roy Moore, rebels and religion, and, if you’ll forgive the mixed references, as weird as any three sisters who ever stirred a pot.

Watch Out America the Car Grabbers are Coming

Over and over again, I hear the precious claim that self-driving cars will “potentially save 30,000 lives a year” That’s one of those speculative statistics people seem to accept as having some validity, but I don’t believe it. They’re coming to take your car.