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I who am I? Born at the pinnacle of American prosperity to parents raised during the last great depression. I was the youngest child of the youngest children born almost between the generations and that in fact clouds and obscures who it is that I am really.
Given a front row seat for the generation of the 1960's I lived in Chicago in 1960. My father was a Democratic precinct captain, my mother an election judge. His father had been a Union organizer and had been beaten and jailed for his efforts. His first time in jail was for punching a Ku Klux Klansman during a parade in the 1930's. I never felt as if I was raised in a family of activists but seeing it print makes me think, yes. That is a part of who I am.
We find ourselves today living in a world treed by the hounds of madness, a complicit media covering contrite parties. Multilevel media, giving more access to communication yet stunting actual communication. More noise, less voice, more sound less music, more law less justice, more medicine less life.
SHARE Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Hillary Calls Kettle Black
She had eight years to groom party functionaries and to network with big time donors and she did that. She had the chairman of the Party in her back pocket! There was only one special interest group she forgot to woo"the American people. Think fast, what was the Clinton Campaigns overriding concern for America?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 20, 2020 Angry Earth
Godzilla stomped across our movie screens in the 1950s breathing fire while destroying Tokyo and its mass transit system. Godzilla was spawned of nuclear radiation released by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 17, 2020 Why We Fight
Ronald Reagan saw the unfairness in the world and began taxing Social Security because the elderly were just too prosperous. Hungry school children were getting too much free food in school lunches and solved the problem by declaring ketchup a vegetable.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Your Fault
Here is a challenge for you; I want you to think about something in a different way. The next time you see a homeless person begging for change on the side of the road with a cardboard sign. I want you to ask yourself, could I do that?
SHARE Sunday, January 12, 2020 American Nero
The running cross current of impeachment, MAN BITES DOG, IMPEACHMENT CALLED OFF! General Soleimani has been on the table for twenty years. But, but, but, there's a problem,
SHARE Saturday, January 11, 2020 Without an Exit
Two criminal co-conspirators with no daylight between them. They begin an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe as retaliation. What other reason could it be? Trump claims he was vindicated by the Mueller probe. Why would you investigate the investigation, if it proved your innocence?
SHARE Thursday, January 9, 2020 The Trumpian Knot
Trump threatens to destroy fifty-two cultural sights in Iran. Nothing says bone spurs, I mean courage like threatening more war crimes. The number fifty-two is significant because Iran took fifty-two American Hostages back in 1979 - 1980. Sure, it was forty years ago, but an elephant never forgets what he just learned.
(20 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 11, 2019 Truth is Boring
Nobody wants to be that guy, the party pooper. The guy that says it's a helicopter not a UFO. It's the hot water heater not a ghost. I don't know how many of you have seen "The Big Hack" on Netflix but it's worth a look. It's worth a look because you'll never see social media quite the same way because you see their product is you.
SHARE Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Whakindashitisthis
Fox News suffered a 25% decline in ratings. Of course, it's Summertime and the Klan rallies are being held outdoors. Or maybe grumpy old white men just can't watch the 24/ 7 love fest. "Come on damn it! Bomb something!" Maybe a game show would help the ratings, "Today" one lucky contestant will play for the opportunity to Kiss Trump's Ass!
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 17, 2019 Radio Nazi
Now, this next product was well"you just can't even make this sh*t up even though somebody did. "Is your home ready in the event of an EMP?" The most common cause for an Electromagnetic pulse event is a nuclear explosion. What they are selling is a giant tin foil hat for your house. Protect your home and your electronic devices. Yep, where would you be if you lost Mad Max's cell number.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 2, 2019 One Toke Over the Line
But outside the Mcwhite House the matrix board says; Now hiring managers and cabinet secretaries--- Great Pay! Sifting through the sands of suffering supplicants you come down to three types. Type one, smile, pucker and kiss. Type two, lock the door, don't answer the phone and order a four-year calendar.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Extinction Level Event
2020 is the year to make Republicans extinct. Mitch McConnell looks up from his tortoise shell and sees the meteor a comin. Devin Nunez could be the new monorail conductor at Disneyland Ted Cruz could join the space pirates as Gilligan on the SS Minnow. In 1932, The Republicans were repudiated and in 200 days we had a new economy, a new philosophy and a New Deal.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 18, 2019 Give Him His War
Imagine for a moment you own a $400 million-dollar super tanker that carries $100 million dollars of crude oil through a twenty-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz. A silkworm missile traveling at 650 miles per hour could hit that tanker in less than a minute and a half. And all the king's horses and all the king's aircraft carriers can't stop it.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 9, 2019 The Monster Factory
When you are homeless it is difficult to escape, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps when you've nothing to stand on. When the bus fare downtown is five dollars round trip, your choices are, seek help or eat. You have no stability; you deal with rain and snow directly and not aesthetically while being disparaged by the world.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 11, 2019 Arrest the President
We sit in the cooking pot and we don't feel the temperature rising. CNN published an article "What Progressives Should know about Trump Voters?" They praised the fine economy and the tax cuts but failed to ask the question hanging in the sky like Jupiter. "What's wrong with these people?"
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 4, 2019 The Stanford Experiment
The expression "Know Thyself" comes to mind but how can we know what we can't see? How can we repair the cracked and broken pieces of the matrix as helpless as a kitten? There things we know and things we only think we know, assumptions of normal taken from random and fractured memories of our childhood.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 31, 2019 The Road to Defeat
Truman was begged to drop desegregation as a plank and Southern delegations threatened to walk out of the convention. And when they did, Hubert Humphrey lead a cheer as the band played "Happy Days are Here Again." The Party elite thought Truman was done. Like Generals, the Party is always fighting the last war.
(23 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Inside the Third Reich
History does not repeat itself, history is a river of time running in parallel tributaries. This may be different from that or that different from this. The warriors may use swords or airplanes, but the behavior of the humans involved is always the same, be it Speer or Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 23, 2019 Reigns of Terror
Isn't Capitalism wonderful? In 2008, before the world was robbed, I had my own business and lived in a nice house with two cars in the driveway. Life was wonderful blissfully ignorant. Wealth is the greatest opiate anesthetizing us to the misfortunes of others. They must have made poor choices or had bad habits pitting us against each other. But graduation day in the course of misfortune is an epiphany.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 17, 2019 The World has Gone Dark
One word, one spark, one promise one cry. A face, a religion or a people wronged all made whole in hate. From rocks and spears to knives and swords to guns to missiles to bombs and atoms we shall be victorious, righteous and pure once we slay all the evils doers and their children