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The paradox of low expectations.

I spent yesterday working on the site after we experienced a Denial of Service attack on Wednesday and Thursday. I’ve pretty well isolated where I think it came from and have taken proactive steps...

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A good summary of the current predicament.

It’s been some week, hasn’t it? What with omicron showing up in the US, Japan banning all travel for foreigners – something I happen to agree with – the Supreme Court poised to strike down Roe v Wade...

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Happy Boxing Day!

When I lived in Europe and had a British TV service ( which had far better programming than my American counterpart), I enjoyed the day after Christmas. In Britain and many parts of the Commonwealth,...

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a festive holiday season, well, at least as joyful as one could be in the shadow of the continuing disaster that is COVID and the unacceptable US response to...

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A year later and the danger still lurks close by

It has been a year since the unwarranted and thoroughly evil insurrection against the Capitol occurred.“A mob breaking windows, kicking in doors, breaching the Capitol. American flags on poles being...

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Stephen Colbert nails it.

By highlighting the absurdity of the GOP attempts to gaslight the nation: Over at Trump’s propaganda network, they appear pretty unhappy about it. Fox News railing on Kamala Harris for referencing...

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The great surrender

When the story of this third decade of the 21st century is told ( if it ever will be), the level of the United States’ response to a worldwide pandemic will stand out as one of its worst failures. The...

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The nameless servants of evil (Part One)

I have not been able to post for the last two months for many reasons. It’s been a hard couple of months. Between making a pilgrimage back to the sacred soil of my Alma Mater and then on to Shopping...

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The nameless servants of evil ( Part 2)

One of the trite amorphisms used by conservatives and others repeatedly is, ” We are not a democracy; we are a Republic.” As if the two terms are mutually exclusive when they are meant to be used...

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An excellent summation.

Of the damage to the American Republic that the Roberts Court has accomplished in the last 20 years. As one who is old enough to remember Thurgood Marshall on the Court as well as many others, the...

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