It’s time to stop allowing the haters to set the terms of the debate. Republicans are trying to make it more difficult for people who don’t vote their way — particularly minorities — to vote at all. Particularly in Southern states, the goal is to repress African-American voting, because they are the group that votes …
When I was in my early teens, I wasn’t nearly as interested in World War II as I could have been. Correct that — should have been. My dad was a veteran infantryman in the Army and my birth father was a sonarman in the Navy. Both were young veterans. Norman Rappaport was 19 when …
It was 50 years ago this coming April. For some reason, I was writing a great deal of poetry in 1972 and ’73. They were two pretty depressing years in my life. My first real love relationship had ended in late 1970, and until I started dating the woman who would become my first wife …
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When we decided to retire and move away from California, my wife had one priority. She didn’t want to live anywhere there was a good chance we would be hit by natural disasters — earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding … oh, and tornadoes. When we settled on Georgia south of Atlanta, we knew it wasn’t earthquake country. …
I don’t know how long it has been that I’ve been collecting music on iTunes to play on my computer or various portable devices. At least 15 years or so. I have what I guess was the biggest iPod, with a 160 gigabyte hard drive that seems to hold more than 20,000 songs and comedy …
MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC that takes up very little space Read More »
I did not write this myself. Someone posted it on Facebook three years ago. Someone posted it and invited people to add their name at the end if they agreed. I did … and I did. The only thing that’s a little bit dated is the references to TFG, who was president then. With jailbait-chaser …
Short takes from a journey through a disorganized mind: *** I just aged by 10 years overnight. For some reason, people keep posting things on Facebook asking how old you would be if you reversed the two digits in your age. When I asked asked that yesterday, I could say 17. As of today, it’s …
“When you’re a star, you can do whatever you want.” If the quote sounds familiar, but you can’t quite place it, it’s the important part of Donald Trump’s famous “grab ’em by the pussy” quote, the one that proved to us that when conservative voters say character matters, they’re lying. Has there ever been a …
IS OUR REPUBLIC REALLY SO WEAK TRUMP CAN KILL IT? Read More »
When Donald Trump was running against Hillary Clinton, he suggested the possibility that she might win the election. This of course would have been disastrous to the far right, so Trump made some sort of stupid remark and maybe the only way to stop her might be “Second Amendment remedies.” In case you didn’t get …
Does anybody south of Scarborough remember the Maine? I would be willing to bet it’s been a hundred years since anybody outside of Texas remembered the Alamo. What’s the point, anyway? Remember the Alamo by beating up a Mexican? There really needs to be an expiration date on these things, especially since they all seem …
