Where Have You Gone Joe McCarthy?
I started building and listening to radios in the late 1950’s when the ‘short waves’ were dominated by Radio Free Europe and Radio Moscow. Powerful transmitters and directional antennae on multiple frequencies. Â
Truth Is Always the First Casualty Of War
Arthur Ponsonby said “truth is always the first casualty of war” and a Republican administration is always a war, or has been at least since Nixon. Which side are you on?
Marching through Georgia
Listening to Georgia voters chanting Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump with arms raised, with closed fists, was like a punch in the stomach. Frankly Georgia, I don’t give a damn what happens to you – excuse me, all y’all. You’re just stupid people.
In the Age of Trump the Threat Is God, Guns and Oligarchy
So what the hell did you think? Spend gazillions of untraceable money from invisible sources and it works.
When Victory is Defeat
Liars never lose, at least it’s the strategy that works best to keep your dwindling support from running for the exits. When your defenses tumble, you declare victory.
When Christians Kill: Murders In Portland
Our president, for instance loves to make it look like our biggest crime problem is the presence of undocumented Hispanics, although it isn’t.
Original Sin
Any conversation sufficiently long will eventually result in accusations of racism. It’s driving me off the internet and particularly un-moderated venues frequented by younger people for whom anything, even a benign comment is a something-ism.
Trump’s Awful Coast Guard Speech Is A Reflection Of An Awful Presidency
“No politician in history has been treated worse,” said Trump at the Coast Guard academy commencement speech. I had to turn the sad performance off. Once again, it’s all about Donald.
Donald Trump: He’s A Big Boy Now
“I did it and I’m glad,” a high school friend used to say as an act of high school bravado against the unsympathetic faculty attitude toward our antics. We long since grew up and perhaps are no longer so proud of certain deeds of what we proudly saw as the resistance. Our “business man” in chief seems to be similarly proud not only of his flaunting of prior norms and practices, but of his ability to get away with things otherwise criminal because of his Presidential status.
God, Guns and Lies
The Trump administration is literally packed with representatives of established power and authority and yes, failed power structures and failed ideas. He’s pandering to future representatives of a power structure based on undemocratic unelected authority over our lives.
The Re-Nixonization Of America
It appears we are taking yet another step toward the re-nixonization of America. Us older folk will remember Tricky-D’s raving about law and order, the tying of police and prosecutorial hands, massively escalating crime linked to drugs and the need for draconian punishments and questionable methods of rooting out the outlaws.
Trump Caught In the Middle of A Lie During the Telling Of It
Frankly I thought it would take longer, but the Comey firing and Lester Holt’s interview have accelerated the disintegration of the Trump junta.
From Nuremberg To Washington
I listened on 60 minutes to the last remaining prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in the 40’s say all wars make murderers out of all decent people. They don’t see it as murder, they see it as patriotism.
Chimera-The Republican Abomination of a Frankenstein Monster
Last year we were deprived of our former Democratic representative and given a neophyte whose only qualification was to have lost his legs in Iraq.