Archive for the 'Politics' Category


Money

That’s the only thing that unites Americans, that’s the only thing that moves the needle. I’d say it’s the economy stupid, but it’s deeper than that, if you want meaningful change, people have to be suffering, it’s got to be a matter of survival, if not outright starvation, it’s got to be literally life or […]

Paper Girl

I could not put this book down. What we’ve got here is a working class girl, who employed a Pell grant to go to college, who became a successful writer, who goes back to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio to see what’s going on, to see how it’s changed, to see how all those people […]

Minneapolis

They always push it too far. Who you gonna believe, the bloviations of those who were not there or the camera footage you can see with your own two eyes? Then again, for years now we’ve been told what we see is not true, like with January 6th… It was a peaceful demonstration, don’t you […]

Venezuela

What now? The problem with getting old is you’ve seen this movie before. Even though America reveres youth, with Boomers and Gen-X’ers getting plastic surgery in order to look like their children, as if they are truly fooling anybody, there are many benefits to getting old, other than being closer to death and possible frailty […]