Some folks might be surprised to learn the battle between Jesus and Santa has been going on a lot longer than they realize. The first memories I have of Christmas go back to the mid 1950s, and there were plenty of people whining about the overcommercialization of Christmas, arguing that Christ was the only legitimate …
Anyone who is frustrated with the horrific state of television news these days might be surprised to hear who I think is to blame. Ted Turner. The Mouth of the South? Are you kidding? Yes and no. For a guy who owned the Atlanta Braves baseball team, who won the America’s Cup and who started …
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose …” Actually, with apologies to Kris Kristofferson, these days freedom seems more like the right to be an asshole. I’m not sure there has ever been a time — at least in the nearly three-quarters of a century I have been alive — when more people …
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“Suppose the streets were all on fire, the flames like tempers leaping higher. Suppose you’d lived there all your life, do you think that you would mind?” The above quote is a song lyric from 1968, from another summer of inner city rioting. The song was by Spanky and Our Gang, who had previously had …
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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 …
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 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 …
“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 …
