Donald Trump keeps edging us closer and closer to the abyss. The only question anymore will be who goes over the edge — America or Trump himself. At a rally in Conroe, Texas, Saturday, Trump said the January 6th insurrectionists had been treated unfairly, and said if he was re-elected in 2024, he would pardon …
In the Weather app on my iPhone, I have about a dozen cities around the world bookmarked. Most of them are either places I have lived or places people I care about live, from Tunis to Tahoe and other points that I check nearly every day. It’s 58 degrees in Tunis right now — late …
One thing that has always fascinated me about Facebook is the Memories tab, where I’m shown things I posted or saw on this date in history. I joined FB in late 2008, and posted this on January 26, 2009. It was basically 25 random things about myself. Here they are 13 years later, complete with …
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If we really want to understand the Republican Party, we have to accept one thing. There is really only one issue that matters at all to the party of Reagan, Trump, Greene and the rest. Making the megarich richer and keeping them richer. Doing this by keeping taxes low on the top bracket and maintaining …
I worked for eight different newspapers in nearly 30 years in journalism. Two of them no longer exist in the form they did when I worked there and two others might as well not exist for all that they have changed. Just as many people remember with fondness the first time they were in love, …
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NARCISSIST — a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.”narcissists who think the world revolves around them.” SOCIOPATH — a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. Sound like anyone we know? I’m pretty sure I’ll never understand why folks …
If I weren’t as old as I am, and if there weren’t other people I was responsible to, I would probably give up on the United States of America. I’m not sure where I would go. Canada always seems like the easy choice. In most of the country they speak the same language we do, …
‘Cause we’ll all stick together and you can take that to the bank. That’s the cowboys and the hippies and the Rebels and and the Yanks … If you’re familiar with the early 1980s, you might remember the Charlie Daniels Band and the song, “In America.” After all the division of the ’60s and into …
When it comes to protecting voting rights, it’s time. for Plan B. It’s apparent there will be no support for voting rights from Republicans, and without Senators Sinema and Manchin supporting a care-out in the filibuster, Democrats alone cannot get it done. So Mitch McConnell will hold sway at least for this year. So what …
Random musings for a winter Sunday afternoon: In a world of rapidly increasing weather disasters, it seems somehow silly to complain about the weather here, south of Atlatna, today. It isn’t a monsoon, a blizzard or a hurricane. The temperature isn’t 20 below zero and there are no tornados or tsunamis. It’s 35 degrees out …
