Did he have a choice? Tarrio, Rhodes, and friends knew enough to take down Roger Stone and Donald Trump.

Lest anyone missed: The despicable one’s threats to annex Canada, Mexico, and Greenland gave his Best Bud Vladymir license for his invasion of Ukraine. “It’s OK if America does it.” This was no doubt cooked up during one of their chats. Anne, he is bullying Denmark because he can — he doesn’t need a reason. […]

Canada here we come California, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts to the United States of MAGA: “Canada here we come.” The Civil War is over; the South finally won (in their minds, it was never going to be over until they did). In the halftime, they corrupted a dozen […]

The problem with oligarchs is that they have way too much money and wealth with which to do bad things if they choose to do so. Too many do. Most want to impose the golden rule, the one where he with the most gold rules. Wealth begets bad things like the god complex which begets […]

Dear Coalition of Assholes, By hook or by crook, twice now you have elected a despicable bastard president. The first time brought a nightmare of chaotic incompetence. By far the worst American presidency ever. This second is poised to deliver the coup de grace to our democracy, to our once great Nation. What the hell […]

All around the world, we are seeing heightened uneasiness; stress on governments, economies, and societies. What’s going on? A lot has changed these past few decades, some of which we know of, possibly understand a little. There may be others we are not yet aware of. We are learning more about global warming (a.k.a, climate […]

A Positive Form of Opposition Thinking about… I like this by Tim Snyder When I moved to Great Britain to study, I found the politics very exciting. The parliamentary system was different, so that new elections immediately led to new governments. The press was excellent but political, so that one could read the newspapers and […]

A Ploy

A More Democratic Economy A 1787 newly minted United States of America wasn’t far removed from an old Europe where not so long before all property belonged to the crown or state; where only a hundred years or so earlier John Locke had first defended the idea of private property at a time when most […]

When an economy produces goods and services above and beyond the requisite, i.e., produces an abundance, it creates wealth.  Ten-eleven thousand years ago, this wealth was likely food stored for winter, that rainy day, that dry season, … .  Today, for some, this abundance/wealth might include assets such as fine houses, lifestyle, money, …; and […]