Month: January 2021

Let’s consider for a moment that the Republican right-turn into Nazism isn’t just an aberration of the Donald Trump personality.  Perhaps he only ripped off the scab of racism and bigotry in this country and, from that gash in the American experience, poured an army of hatred, misogyny and stench that extends back, not just … Read moreDefiling the X-Files

I don’t want to harp on this but the Republican leadership is CRAP . . and is the reason Republicans are fleeing the party in droves.  Let’s hope that they are never given the privilege of being elected again. Better yet, find out how you can replace them with responsible people. I am somewhat dismayed … Read moreNow Is The Time To Make It End!

Well, to start with, not me 🙂 ! However, in my enfeebled mental state, it seems to me that the conviction of Donald Trump in the Senate is a simple intelligence test.  Those that would try to find some excuse to let him off the hook, should consider that if you can’t convict someone for … Read moreSo, Who Has an IQ Greater Than 80?

I was walking home from my fourth grade class at Waianae Elementary School, along Farrington Hwy, kicking some gravel to keep me interested with my best friend, Paul Christensen.  He was a likeable guy, not like me.  I was still in my ‘wise guy’ stage before I emerged, full bloom, into confused adolescence. I reached … Read moreCacao Bean . . And The Unrelenting March Into Obscurity

Charles Sumner was beaten senseless on the Senate floor in 1856 after having given a famous anti-slavery speech, ‘The Crime Against Kansas’.  Preston Brooks admitted he attacked him from behind and beat him with a cane while he was signing congressional documents.  It was two years before Charles Sumner could return to the Senate.  In … Read moreRemember the Alamo . . and, Charles Sumner

Next Wednesday we will have some adult leadership again in the White House.  The majority of people in the United States wanted this.  Thank goodness! However, this election really did lay bare some hard truths. The Republican leadership is by and large a group of spineless, greedy and ambitious people who have very little interest … Read moreSedition is a Dish Better Served Cold

I was worried when I walked into the Harbor Freight in Beaumont.  I had purchased an electric miter saw online and received a 30% discount for making a purchase near Christmas . . . but, there was a broken part, so I had to return it.  I wasn’t sure what the furtive, curly brown-haired clerk … Read moreA Miter Saw at Harbor Freight

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin is based on accounts from the town of Hamelin in Germany.  No one knows for sure, but the part about the rats beings drawn out of the town by the Pied Piper doesn’t appear to be true.  However, the part about the children of the town being … Read moreThe Pied Piper Cometh

Isn’t it strange how the analogy with Nero seems more and more prescient, except that Nero was content with watching Rome burn. Trump seems to be taking a little more interest in making it happen. When Trump took office he boasted that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in New York City and get … Read more300,002 Lost While Trump Fiddles

Well, we shouldn’t be surprised.  Elections have consequences . . and this is one of them.  I shudder to think what the next two weeks will bring.  If the Republican frogs weren’t floating in Trump’s boiling water, their brains deadened by the boot-licking, I would expect them to use the 25th ammendment.  Clearly, this is … Read moreThe Frog is Floating