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WTF, Bro??!
My dear old departed daddy used to tell me from time to time that “fools’ names and fools’ faces always appear in public places”. Over the last year I’ve had reason to consider what he was saying to some depth. From the...
The Anti-Venom for the Walking Dead
I suppose I’m not the only one who’s watching newscasts in utter disbelief these days. I’m having trouble understanding how a self-proclaimed capitalist ex-president could possibly say that Vlad Putin...
The Genetics of Politics: A Flawed Concept of Power
I’m sure all of you remember how our last president, Daren Trump, (Don + Karen = Daren), brought aid to Puerto Rico after a major disaster there. He threw paper towels to them so they could clean up the mess. …
The Pandemic: A Catalyst for Political & Spiritual Change
The Economists and Bloomberg have recently reported that not only are people just up and quitting their jobs but a whole bunch of people are
Spiritual Practicality for Dummies
The Coming Age of Spirit as a Practical Part of Life — Damn! Gas prices are through the roof. Inflation is as high as it’s been in a long time. Most folks weren’t even born yet the last time inflation was this high...
Faux Leadership
The Road to Losing our Freedom If E.T. is hanging out in the galaxy “ghosting” us human types of living organisms, he has to be scratching his head and butt. Can you imagine? We can read and we can write...
Hermeneutics: A Philosophy of Understanding
You probably don’t know much about the concept of hermeneutics, I suppose. But then why should you? It isn’t something that you could use everyday, or could you? Mostly hermeneutics was developed...
Give Unto Caesar That Which Is Caesar’s
I have a question for all my Christian friends. Maybe not for all my Cristian friends, but for all of them that say the Bible is the word of God. Here comes. What does Mathew 12:25 mean? I’ll include it here just to...
Ginni and Clarence: The Lame Duck Bonnie and Clyde
“The intimate bond has been a dynamic in which two people, as halves, together formed a creative whole.” — Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh Clarence and Virginia Thomas are perhaps as much of a creative whole...
Fair and Balanced?…What a Crock of Horse Dukey
I hear that it’s pretty damned difficult for journalists in Russia to even say the word ‘war’. I even saw reports of people being arrested for holding up blank paper with nothing written on it, all being shunted off under police guidance. How outrageous! Right? Well, unless you live in Texas, Florida, or Idaho. Is it any wonder that there are far right radical pundits who are actually voicing approval of authoritarian regimes from Russia to Hungary?
Do You Know What You Call An Uneducated Democracy? Demagoguery
So Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in front of God and everybody at the Oscars. What horror. The Fresh Prince slapped his one time BFF for...
Deliberate Programming or Unconscious Incompetence
The difference between direct democracy and demagoguery — I see where Marge got all of Springfield up in arms again. This time it was because she avowed that the January sixth event was a one off...
Greg, You Had One Job…
Politics, Reality TV and Texan Drama — Prices are higher these days, huh? In some places gas is above $4.00 a gallon. Those are European prices. The cost of transporting goods is going to also be higher, there...
Does Anyone in the GOP Ever Mean What They Say?
I just heard a report from the New York Times that Kevin and Moscow Mitch wanted to run Daren the XLV out of the Republican Party⁸. At least they did when they were still cleaning up the mess in their pants after...
Can Anyone in the GOP Tell the Truth?
The Post-Truth Syndrome in Today’s Political Climate — George Orwell said, “The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.” I don’t know if the whole society has drifted that...
The Thought Police Waging a Culture War
I looked up the meaning of culture wars because I didn’t understand the phrase all that well. Wikipedia told me that “A culture war is a cultural conflict between social groups and the struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices. It commonly refers to topics on which there is general societal disagreement and polarization in societal values.¹” With that explanation, I figured I could probably find some examples of why such a phenomenon is illogical. At least it is illogical if you accept the constitution as a guiding principle to living life.
Wannabe Politicians
The Bad Form of Saying One Thing and Doing Another — I guess I must be old fashioned. I’ve always thought it to be really bad form to say one thing and do another. But the more I listen to this new crop of wannabe...
The Republican Anti-Woman Agenda
The Consequences of Dishonest Justices — George Carlin had it right. The Republican Party isn’t pro-life, it’s anti-woman². The opinion written by Justice Alito³ is a vile political statement designed to put women in...
What’s the Definition of Crazy? The Republican Party
I must be behind the times. When did it become necessary for someone to be crazy as a loon in order to run for congress or any other political office? I missed when that change was made.
The Blurring of Church and State: A Road Map to Theocracy
Recently I’ve been hearing the word theocracy bandied about. I’ve also recently developed a strong aversion to kool-aid. Wasn’t it a theocracy that Jim Jones wanted to have down there in the jungle? That didn’t work out so well if memory serves me. Albert Einstein is credited with saying that doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity⁴. Is it really necessary for all of us to check to see if he knew what he was talking about?
Guns Will Never Replace Spirituality in America
Where’s the Spiritual Leadership from the Evangelical Right? — It has happened again. An eighteen-year-old white boy has taken it on himself to travel for hours to murder black people¹.
You Have a Mind of Your Own, Why Don’t You Use It?
The Seemingly Incurable Viral Blame Game — I see where everyone is calling for banning assault weapons again. Folks on the left are blaming the folks on the right for allowing such weapons to be purchased by...
The Antidote to the MAGA Kool-Aid: John Fetterman Leads the Way
"I see where The Don is sticking his nose in the Georgia elections again. His guy is not doing well. I’m writing this before the election, but I hear that his guy is behind by 30 points or so in the polls. It seems that he backed a fellow flim-flam man in Dr. Oz¹. Even asked Oz to declare himself a winner before the votes were even counted. It didn’t work for The Don and I can’t see that it will work for the Oz. Of course, this is being written before any of that happens. But what I want to talk about is Dr. Oz’s Democratic opponent. He is or was Pennsylvania’s Lt. Governor, John Fetterman..."
I Like Chocolate, You Like Vanilla: What Do the Taliban and the Southern Baptist Convention Have in Common?
"The Southern Baptist Convention has been the gold standard of Protestantism since it began in 184⁵¹. It has stood for religious righteousness. It has been a stalwart of the anti-abortion movement. It has formed the thinking of generations of young men and women. It has also been covering up the gross misdeeds of its pastors and preachers and other leaders in the same fashion as the Catholic Church did with priests and other church leadership. In a nearly 300-page report, many of the misdeeds of the Southern Baptist Convention’s clergy are reported and lurid details revealed..."
The Fascist Theocracy of the MAGA Cult and the Coming Redneck Revolution
I think I’d like to tell you all a little story. Do you know why I think that the entire MAGA endeavor is doomed for failure? To my way of thinking, the thoughts behind the words that make up the majority of the MAGA creed are fascist. I get that fascism is a word that gets bandied about a lot and it has lost a lot of the horror that it once generated, but the facts of what it is and what it means are still very much present with us.
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